{"id":1661,"date":"2008-08-20T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/angels-rays-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T11:44:00","slug":"angels-rays-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/angels-rays-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels-Rays Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Los Angeles Angels will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Angels will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Jered Weaver in this game. Weaver has a 10-9 record and a 4.47 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Weaver&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Matt Garza. The Rays righthander has a 3.63 ERA to go along with a 10-7 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Rays listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Angels, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Willy Aybar&#8217;s two-RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the Rays past the Angels 4-2 on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> won as -120 home favorites as the game played under the 8.5-run total posted by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">James Shields allowed two runs over eight innings to earn the win for the Rays, who got RBIs from B.J. Upton and Carlos Pena on the night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Vladimir Guerrero was 2-for-4 with a solo shot for <st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Scot Shields took the loss after giving up the single to Aybar. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 76-48 SU<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 77-48 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Minnesota are 6-4<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Chi White Sox are 6-4<br \/>After playing LA Angels are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>LA Angels are 2-6 SU in their last 8 games when playing Tampa Bay<br \/>LA Angels are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games <br \/>LA Angels are 1-6 SU in their last 7 games on the road<br \/>LA Angels are 0-5 SU in their last 5 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay<br \/>Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against LA Angels<br \/>Tampa Bay is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games at home<br \/>Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Tampa Bay is 6-2 SU in their last 8 games when playing LA Angels<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>LA Angels home to <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Thursday, August 21<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> at Chi White Sox, Friday, August 22<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Angels will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. The Angels will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Jered Weaver in this game. Weaver has a 10-9 record and a 4.47 ERA this season. Weaver&#8217;s opponent in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/angels-rays-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angels-Rays Who Will Cover?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","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=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}