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**Udog** · 07-31-2020, 09:05 AM

Armadillo: Friday's six-pack

Last six pitchers who struck out 3 hitters in an inning, on 9 pitches:
9-27-19— Will Harris, Astros, vs Angels
6-5-19— Chris Sale, Red Sox, vs Kansas City
5-8-19— Chris Sale, Red Sox, vs Baltimore
4-14-19— Thomas Pannone, Blue Jays, vs Tampa Bay
4-23-18— Kevin Gausman, Orioles, vs Cleveland
8-9-17— Rick Porcello, Red Sox, vs Tampa Bay

Americans who have died from COVID-19: 151,570
Please wear a mask when you go out.

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Armadillo: Friday's Den: Wrapping up a summer night…….

13) One of the oddly entertaining things about this baseball season is apparently going to be that the rules will be changing as we move along.

— Teams will now play 7-inning games in doubleheaders this season, like they do in the minor leagues.
— This weekend’s Toronto-Philly series was wiped out, because a Philly coach and staff member tested positive for the virus.
— The 30-man roster was supposed to go away after two weeks, but now may stick around longer, probably because teams are concerned about pitchers getting hurt.

12) Padres 12, Giants 7 (10)— Rough couple of nights for the San Diego bullpen; they blew a 6-2 lead Wednesday, blew a 6-1 lead in this game. Nothing is quite as much fun as having one of the pitchers on your fantasy team leave the game with a 6-1 lead, and then not get the win.

11) San Diego made a terrific move in adding OF Trent Grisham, who is a tremendous defender; he made a diving catch on a ball hit by Evan Longoria with the bases loaded that saved at least two runs early in the game.

10) Padres-Giants game ended just before 2am here in the east; San Diego’s flight to Denver is going to get into town very early Friday morning. Will be a groggy bunch of Friars Friday night when they play the Rockies.

9) Indians 2, Twins 0— In his first two starts this year, Shane Bieber has thrown 14 innings, allowed only 8 baserunners, struck out 27 guys. Shutting the Twins out is impressive.

8) Nationals 6, Blue Jays 4- Joe West was the home plate umpire, but in the bottom of the first, a batter let his bat go on a swing and the bat hit West in his ear, opening a cut just in front of his left ear. West left the game for a while, returned later and finished the game umping 3rd base.

7) Bronx 8, Baltimore 6— Aaron Judge hit the game-winning homer in the ninth inning; tough week for the Orioles, who were originally supposed to play four winnable games with Miami this week, but because of the coronavirus mess, they got two games with Bronx instead.

6) Best wishes to former Giants/Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin, who broke four ribs, slightly punctured his lung and needed stitches in his head after a bicycle accident last weekend in Jacksonville. Coach Coughlin is 73 years old.

5) Rick Sutcliffe mentioned on TV this week that he is the last pitcher that stole home plate.

Former big leaguer Dan Haren posted last month that he was the last pitcher to get four hits in a game. With the DH now all over baseball, those marks figure to last a while.

4) A skydiver in Vermont lost his prosthetic leg while he was up in the air; luckily, a farmer found the leg in a soybean field and returned it to the man. Seriously.

It takes serious onions to jump out of a moving airplane; doing it with an artificial leg is even more son. Hopefully the farmer got a nice reward for returning the leg.

3) SEC teams will play a 10-game conference-only football schedule this fall, meaning that rivalry games like Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, South Carolina-Clemson and Kentucky-Louisville are out the window for this year.

2) Jazz 106, Pelicans 104— New Orleans blew a 16-point lead, lost by a hoop; Utah had very balanced scoring. Jazz starters were a combined +44 wheel they were in the game; their subs were a combined minus-34.

1) Lakers 103, Clippers 101— Anthony Davis scored 34 points, Lebron James scored the wining hoop with 0:12 left as the Lakers beat their crosstown rivals 3,000 miles from home. Counting regular season and playoff games, this was the 993rd win of Lebron James’ career.

**Udog** · 07-31-2020, 09:10 AM

WNBA

Friday, July 31

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Trend Report
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New York @ Atlanta
New York
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of New York's last 5 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
The total has gone OVER in 7 of New York's last 9 games
Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Atlanta's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Atlanta's last 5 games when playing at home against New York

Indiana @ Dallas
Indiana
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Indiana's last 5 games when playing on the road against Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Indiana's last 5 games when playing Dallas
Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dallas's last 5 games when playing at home against Indiana
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dallas's last 5 games when playing Indiana

Las Vegas @ Phoenix
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Las Vegas's last 6 games when playing Phoenix
Phoenix
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Phoenix's last 6 games when playing Las Vegas
Phoenix is 12-3 SU in its last 15 games when playing Las Vegas

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**Udog** · 07-31-2020, 01:18 PM

WNBA
Dunkel

Friday, July 31

New York @ Atlanta

Game 681-682
July 31, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
New York
101.221
Atlanta
100.240
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
New York
by 1
159
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Atlanta
by 5 1/2
162 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
New York
(+5 1/2); Under

Indiana @ Dallas

Game 683-684
July 31, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Indiana
109.564
Dallas
103.116
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Indiana
by 6 1/2
173
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Dallas
by 3
168 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Indiana
(+3); Over

Las Vegas @ Phoenix

Game 685-686
July 31, 2020 @ 10:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Las Vegas
115.910
Phoenix
100.744
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Las Vegas
by 15
177
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Las Vegas
by 5 1/2
171 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Las Vegas
(-5 1/2); Over

WNBA
Long Sheet

Friday, July 31

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NEW YORK (0 - 2) vs. ATLANTA (1 - 1) - 7/31/2020, 7:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
ATLANTA is 3-3 against the spread versus NEW YORK over the last 3 seasons
ATLANTA is 3-3 straight up against NEW YORK over the last 3 seasons
3 of 6 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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INDIANA (1 - 1) vs. DALLAS (1 - 1) - 7/31/2020, 8:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
INDIANA is 5-1 against the spread versus DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
INDIANA is 4-2 straight up against DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
5 of 6 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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LAS VEGAS (1 - 1) vs. PHOENIX (0 - 2) - 7/31/2020, 10:00 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
PHOENIX is 4-3 against the spread versus LAS VEGAS over the last 3 seasons
PHOENIX is 4-3 straight up against LAS VEGAS over the last 3 seasons
5 of 7 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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