{"id":1708,"date":"2008-08-24T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-white-sox-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:51:00","slug":"rays-white-sox-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-white-sox-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-White Sox Pointers"},"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\">A winning streak will be on the line for the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday when they battle the Chicago White Sox 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\">Andy Sonnanstine will be the starting pitcher for the Rays on this day. Righthander Sonnanstine is 13-6 this season with a 4.37 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be ace Mark Buehrle who starts for the White Sox. Lefthander Buehrle is 11-10 with a 3.91 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the White Sox listed as 175-moneyline favorites versus the Rays, 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\">The Rays rallied with four runs in the eighth inning to post a 5-3 victory over the White Sox on Saturday. The Rays won that game as +125 underdogs, while the eight runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Akinori Iwamura and Carlos Pena drove in two runs apiece to lead the Rays. Grant Balfour got the win in relief, and Dan Wheeler closed out the ninth to earn his eighth save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jermaine Dye belted two home runs for the White Sox, who were favored at -135. Javier Vazquez surrendered four runs off five hits over seven innings to suffer the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<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> has won 2 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 79-49 SU<br \/>Chicago: 73-55 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 Sunday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 5-5<br \/>After playing Chi White Sox are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Baltimore are 6-4<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 2-8<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 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Tampa Bay&#8217;s last 8 games when playing Chi White Sox<br \/>Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Chi White Sox&#8217;s last 8 games when playing Tampa Bay<br \/>Chi White Sox are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games at home<br \/>Chi White Sox are 8-3 SU in their last 11 games <br \/>Chi White Sox are 13-6 SU in their last 19 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to <st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 26<br \/>Chi White Sox at <st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, August 25<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>A winning streak will be on the line for the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday when they battle the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. Andy Sonnanstine will be the starting pitcher for the Rays on this day. Righthander Sonnanstine is 13-6 this season with a 4.37 ERA. Meanwhile, it&#8217;ll be ace Mark Buehrle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rays-white-sox-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rays-White Sox Pointers<\/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-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}