Sentences with phrase «postseason games»

Since 2005, the favorite has gone 144 - 118 ATS (55 %) in postseason games featuring two ranked teams.

His initial playoff appearance this year will be the first postseason game of his career.

With postseason games taking increased levels of action, I wanted to confirm that sportsbooks would be more likely to shade or adjust their lines based on public money.

Major League Baseball on Sunday announced the start times for postseason games for the first week of the playoffs, revealing the full schedule through Saturday of the Division Series in each league.

Despite having an 8 - 1 record, Pacific Lutheran had no Division III postseason games on its home field.

Brett Hull's controversial foot - in - the - crease OT goal won the Cup for Dallas in Game 6 of the final against Buffalo, but Nieuwendyk got the Stars there by scoring a league - leading 11 goals, and 21 points, in 23 postseason games against Oilers, Blues, Avalanche and Sabres.

The bowl season allows for a unique set of postseason games; some teams over-perform expectations during the year while others have been letdowns.

Kershaw had the 12th Dodgers postseason game with 10 or more strikeouts, and third of his career matching Sandy Koufax for most in franchise history.

That's far more preferable to losing because your relievers» arms fell off after pitching too many games in a row in a must - win postseason game.

It was just the second postseason game ever with two starters each striking out double digits, and the first since Game 5 of the 1944 World Series.

With more postseason games comes more potential for daydreaming fans to feel silly about their daydreams.

Carrasco gets out of it with — you guessed it — a strikeout, and now it's Tanaka's turn in this weird AL postseason game where neither team is scoring runs for some reason.

Charlie Morton has pitched out of the bullpen exactly two times in 10 major league seasons, postseason games included.

Were Alomar to serve his sentence during baseball's holy days — at a season's climax and during postseason games — any player would think twice before repeating Alomar's reprehensible outburst.

It was only the second postseason game in major league history to be won by a team that had trailed by more than two runs entering the ninth.

Kansas City is 11 - 3 over its last 14 home postseason games, including a current 5 - 0 streak per the OddsShark MLB Database.

In our sample size, at least, second half totals in the Super Bowl essentially play out the same as they do in the regular season and other postseason games.

Sportsbooks often have significant liability on these large moneyline underdogs — especially in postseason games as bettors look for big one - time payouts on Cinderella teams.

The logic: This is one of the more deceiving bets available for most postseason games.

The Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl is one of 11 postseason games owned and operated by ESPN Events, a subsidiary of ESPN.

Five of his 15 wins were shutouts and he posted a miserly 1.62 goals - against average in 21 postseason games while knocking off Detroit, Dallas and Minnesota before falling to New Jersey in seven games.

However, when Foster has officiated postseason games, visitors have gone just 35 - 35 ATS (50 %) with -1.67 units lost.

On Sunday, the Yankees played their first postseason game without Derek Jeter for the first time in nearly two decades.

He strikes out, and we seem to be in the middle of a well - pitched American League postseason game in 2017?

With this loss, the Chiefs become the sixth team in NFL history to hold an opponent to just field goals for an entire postseason game but still suffer a defeat.

For some reason, though, Clemson winning a high - profile postseason game by 31 points just sort of feels right.

Days after George dubbed himself Playoff P in front of Oklahoma City media, he nailed eight three - pointers — the 26th postseason game where a player has hit at least that many threes — in a 116 - 108 win in Game 1 over the Utah Jazz.

That sentence makes my brain sound like its timing belt is going out, and yet somehow it's normal that Hill is an established, rotation - solidifying starter in a crucial postseason game?

It's already an issue with the July 31 deadline, but two months + the potential postseason games is a low bar we're used to.

Instead we've got a new postseason game of Ifs, counting all the ways we could've reentered the torture zone.

We always preach the value of betting against the public, but fading the trendy underdog has been a particularly profitable strategy in these heavily bet postseason games.

Ottawa is just 2 - 4 in its last six postseason games when facing elimination, including a 1 - 2 record in its last three elimination games against Pittsburgh.

But, buyer beware: when a team's line improves by six or more points in college football postseason games, they are just 2 -4-1 ATS since 2005.

Our database includes closing moneylines from Pinnacle and moneyline NHL Betting Trends data for all regular and postseason games since the start of the 2005 season.

Two intense, down - to - the - wire playoff games in one day, not even 24 hours removed from two of the dullest postseason games we've seen in a while, will do that to a person.

Though the club lost outfielder Melky Cabrera, one of its top hitters, to a 50 - game suspension on Aug. 15 after he flunked a drug test for using synthetic testosterone (his ban will end after San Francisco's fifth postseason game, but the club said last week he is not welcome to return), the offense improved over the past two months.

Obvious choice is Fleury, but Getzlaf had a pair of goals in his first ever career multi-goal postseason game.

Between Bama - FSU and the three FBS postseason games, it's entirely possible that a single new stadium is hosting four of the season's 10 biggest games.

When the Marlins actually won the 1997 World Series, though, in front of 67,204 throaty, delirious fans who got to watch one of the best postseason games in baseball history, it was easy to wonder if Huizenga might have changed his mind.

- Alabama had closed as favorites in 72 consecutive games including last week's -38 spread and past postseason games, but that may end in Week 5, as they open +2 at Georgia and are currently +2.5.

It's 103 degrees in Los Angeles by the way, which Joe Buck says makes this the hottest postseason game in history.

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But this game was the only postseason game ever with each starter getting at least 11 strikeouts.

ATS and O / U picks for every NBA postseason game.

Money - line, over / under and puck - line picks for every NHL postseason game.

Unfortunately, there just aren't that many postseason games, 25 total since 2005, with lopsided betting.

Of course, this was on the heels of Virginia Tech -6 Tennessee at SportsBook as ESPN Postseason Game of the Year.