Holliday, Wainwright help Cards edge A's

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06/19/2010 - St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Matt Holliday hit a two-run home run and drove in three, while Adam Wainwright tossed eight strong innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals take a 4-3 win over the Oakland Athletics in the second of a three-game interleague set.

Wainwright (10-4) gave up just one unearned run on five hits with a walk and four strikeouts for the Cardinals, who have won four of their last five. Skip Schumaker went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored in the win.

Ryan Sweeney and Gabe Gross each drove in a run, while Ben Sheets (2-7) was tagged with the loss as he gave up four runs on six hits with four walks and two strikeouts over seven innings for the Athletics, who have dropped seven of their last eight.

With the Cardinals holding a three-run lead, Ryan Franklin took the mound for the ninth, but quickly got into trouble. Conor Jackson led off with a walk and Kurt Suzuki followed with a single. Sweeney's RBI single then made it a two- run game.

Jason Motte was called out of the bullpen and struck out Kevin Kouzmanoff for the first out. Mark Ellis flied out to center, but Gross made it a one-run game with a pinch-hit single to left. Adam Rosales, though, struck out to end the game and give Motte his second save of the season.

Oakland jumped on top in the first. Rajai Davis doubled, Jackson was hit by a pitch and Davis came home on a double steal after Yadier Molina's throwing error.

St. Louis finally got on the board in the fifth. Molina led off with a walk and moved to second on Wainwright's sacrifice bunt. Two batters later, Schumaker singled to score Molina, and Holliday followed with an RBI double for a 2-1 lead.

Wainwright worked around a two-out single in the sixth and set the A's down in order in the seventh.

St. Louis padded its lead in the seventh, as Brendan Ryan led off with a double and Holliday blasted a pitch over the fence in left for a 4-1 advantage.

In the eighth, Jack Cust led off the frame with a pinch-hit double, but Davis flied out and Daric Barton lined into an inning-ending double play.

Game Notes

The A's are 132-109 in interleague play, but just 4-7 this season...St. Louis improved to 106-92 in interleague play and 6-2 on the campaign...St. Louis has taken seven of the eight meetings with Oakland...Sheets has dropped his last four starts and hasn't won since May 8, a span of eight starts. He is 6-15 over 27 starts against St. Louis...Wainwirght is a perfect 7-0 over seven starts at home this season...The start of the game was delayed by 15 minutes due to rain.

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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.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

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.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.