Playoff hopeful Tigers and Mariners begin big set in Detroit

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09/07/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two teams with playoff aspirations square off this weekend when the Detroit Tigers welcome the Seattle Mariners to Comerica Park for the opener of a three-game series.

Both teams enter the critical series three games back of the wild card-leading New York Yankees.

The Tigers moved into a tie for the second spot on Thursday, as Placido Polanco singled home the winning run to cap a two-run rally in Detroit's 3-2 win. Inge homered for the Tigers, who won the final two games of this series with the White Sox, but posted only the fourth victory in their last nine games and, with Cleveland's loss to the Angels, now trail the Tribe by six games in the American League Central

Gary Sheffield, who ended 0-for-3, returned from the disabled list where he had been sidelined since August 21 because of a sore shoulder. The Tigers had been just 6-8 without him.

Right-hander Chad Durbin, who got the start in place of the injured Jair Jurrjens, gave up just four hits with a walk and strikeout over five frames for the Tigers. Bobby Seay (3-0) earned the win with a perfect ninth.

Justin Verlander gets the call this evening, as he tries to win his third straight start. Verlander won for the fourth time in his last five starts on Saturday against the Oakland Athletics, as he allowed a run and six hits in 6 2/3 innings to improve to 15-5, while lowering his earned run average to 3.67.

Verlander has defeated the Mariners twice already this year and is a perfect 3-0 against them with 3.26 ERA in three starts.

Seattle, meanwhile, comes into this series as cold as can be after dropping the final two games of their three-game series with the Yankees. The Mariners fell 10-2 in Wednesday's finale and were outscored 22-5 in the final two contests.

The Mariners have been in a tailspin since climbing to within a game of the Los Angeles Angels in the AL West. They have dropped 11 of their last 12 and now find themselves eight games back of the Halos.

Hoping to get the Mariners back in the win column tonight will be right-hander Miguel Batista, who is 13-10 with a 4.59 ERA on the year. Batista received a no-decision on Saturday against the Toronto Blue Jays, despite giving up just one run and five hits in seven innings of a 2-1 loss.

Batista beat the Tigers the last time he faced them and is 1-2 lifetime against them with two saves and a 3.72 ERA in eight games, four of which have been starts.

Detroit has won four of seven from the Mariners this season and is 20-14 in the series since the start of the 2004 campaign. Seattle, though, has split its last six in the Motor City.

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

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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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