Greinke and Pena lead Royals past Jays

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07/21/2010 - Kansas City, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Zack Greinke allowed two runs and struck out nine in eight strong innings, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 5-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the rubber match of a three-game series.

Greinke (6-9) scattered six hits in the outing and did not walk a batter, as the Royals won for the seventh time in their last eight series tiebreaking games. Brayan Pena recorded a career-high three hits and an RBI, as five different players scored a run in the win.

Joakim Soria notched his AL-leading 26th save of the season.

Vernon Wells had three hits and scored once for the Blue Jays, who fell to 0-5-2 in their last seven series in Kansas City. Lyle Overbay and John McDonald each drove in a run in defeat.

Mark Rzepczynski (0-1) allowed five runs on nine hits in 4 2/3 innings in a spot start to receive the loss.

Soria came on to finish the game in the ninth -- holding a three-run lead -- but ran into some trouble.

Wells singled with one away and moved to third when Adam Lind reached on an error. Soria, though, recovered to strike out Aaron Hill before inducing a weak groundout from Overbay to end the game.

McDonald's RBI double in the third put Toronto ahead, but Kansas City scored twice in the home half to move in front for good

Yuniesky Betancourt led off the inning with a triple to right and Willie Bloomquist singled on the next pitch to tie the game. Bloomquist moved to second on a Mike Aviles single and to third on a Wilson Betemit walk before Jose Guillen's sacrifice fly made it 2-1.

Three more runs by the Royals' offense in the fifth helped build a four-run lead.

Aviles tripled and scored on Billy Butler's double to start the inning, and Butler moved up to third on a wild pitch with one away. Guillen's double plated Butler, and Pena's RBI base hit off Casey Janssen extended the margin to 5-1.

Greinke retired 10 straight batters from the end of the third through the end of the sixth, a streak that ended when Wells singled to begin the seventh. Hill sent Wells to second with a base hit, and Overbay cut Toronto's deficit to three with a run-scoring single.

Edwin Encarnacion, however, grounded into an inning-ending double play to thwart the rally.

Game Notes

The Blue Jays fell to 4-2 on a 10-game road trip...The teams split the season series, 3-3...The Jays failed to homer, snapping a streak of going deep in 13 straight games, a season-high...Toronto shortstop Yunel Escobar (hand) did not play.

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Super Bowl XLIII Betting - Super Bowl 2009

Super Bowl 2009, the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Let’s take a look at the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds and the betting line and figure out where they’ve been and where they are going to go.

MySportsbook.com put up the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds late on Sunday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers favored by 6.5 points and a total betting line at 47.5 points.

Since then, however, the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds have seen a good deal of movement and you’ll want to be on top of where they are likely to move to make sure you get the best line value for the big game.

Since opening, the Super Bowl 2009 betting lines went to Steelers -7 in the span of roughly 3 hours but were quickly bought back down just minutes later to 6.5 again.

After that is took about 5-6 more hours before the betting line went back to -7 where it has sat for a while now and is likely to remain. The opening betting total of 47.5 was bet down right after the line became available and went to 47 within minutes.

Roughly a day later it has been bet even further down to the 46.5 tally it currently is set at.

Roughly 60% of gamblers seem to be on the Cardinals here so the point spread will be bet down and a 7.5 would not last very long at all with many taking the early 6.5 in hopes of finding a potential middle in the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds.

If you like Arizona and see a 7.5, I’d take it as soon as possible because it’s unlikely to last. For Pittsburgh backers, the -7 might be the best you’ll be able to find but a 6.5 is definitely possible close to game time.

Regarding the Super Bowl 2009 betting odds for the total, most tracked gamblers are already on the over and with those who took the under 47.5 already securing a middle on the over 46.5, the only way I see it moving is back up to 47 so if you like the over, I’d recommend betting now.

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