{"id":1687,"date":"2008-08-23T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-white-sox-vegas-betting-odds\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:28:00","slug":"rays-white-sox-vegas-betting-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-white-sox-vegas-betting-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-White Sox Vegas Betting Odds"},"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 Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago White Sox will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at U.S. Cellular 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 Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace lefthander Scott Kazmir in this game. Kazmir has a 9-6 record and a 3.21 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Kazmir&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Javier Vazquez. The White Sox righthander has a 4.50 ERA to go along with a 10-10 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Rays rallied with six runs in the final two innings to come back and defeat the White Sox 9-4 on Friday, as +160 underdogs. The 13 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ben Zobrist went 2-for-5 at the plate with a two-run homer and three RBIs for the Rays. Edwin Jackson gave up two runs off seven hits over six innings in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Nick Swisher belted a two-run homer for the White Sox, who were favored at -175 in that game. John Danks allowed three runs off seven hits over 6 1-3 innings in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><?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>: 78-49 SU<br \/>Chicago: 73-54 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Tampa Bay most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Chi White Sox are 6-4<br \/>After playing Chi White Sox are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Tampa Bay are 5-5<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 3-7<br \/>After a loss 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 \/>Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>Tampa Bay is 3-8 SU in their last 11 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox<br \/>Chi White Sox are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games at home<br \/>Chi White Sox are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games <br \/>Chi White Sox are 8-3 SU in their last 11 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<br \/>Chi White Sox are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>Chi White Sox home to <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Sunday, August 24<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 Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago White Sox will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at U.S. Cellular Field. The Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace lefthander Scott Kazmir in this game. Kazmir has a 9-6 record and a 3.21 ERA this season. Kazmir&#8217;s opponent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-white-sox-vegas-betting-odds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rays-White Sox Vegas Betting Odds<\/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-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","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=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}