{"id":1584,"date":"2008-08-12T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-athletics-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:57:00","slug":"rays-athletics-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-athletics-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Athletics Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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A winning streak will be on the line for the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday when they battle the Oakland Athletics at McAfee Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace lefthander Scott Kazmir in this game. Kazmir has a 8-5 record and a 3.20 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics will counter Kazmir with Gio Gonzalez. Lefthander Gonzalez has a 6.00 ERA to go along with a 0-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Rays listed as 160-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays defeated Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 11-3 as a -120 favorite on Sunday. The 14 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Wily Aybar homered twice and had four RBI for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, while Scott Riggans hit a three-run home run in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics lost to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 6-1 as a +140 underdog on Sunday. The seven runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark Ellis drove in the Athletics’ lone run, while former Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> closer Huston Street<\/st1:address><\/st1:Street> was tagged for three runs in only one inning. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 3 straight games.
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 71-46 SU
Oakland: 54-63 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 2-8
Before playing Oakland are 6-4
After playing Seattle are 7-3
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Oakland most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 2-8
Before playing Tampa Bay are 3-7
After playing Detroit are 5-5
After a loss are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Tampa Bay’s last 12 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing Oakland
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Oakland’s last 13 games
Oakland is 17-6 SU in its last 23 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Oakland’s last 10 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Oakland’s last 19 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Wednesday, August 13<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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A winning streak will be on the line for the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday when they battle the Oakland Athletics at McAfee Coliseum. The Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace lefthander Scott Kazmir in this game. Kazmir has a 8-5 record and a 3.20 ERA this season. The Athletics will … Continue reading Rays-Athletics Pointspread Pointers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}