{"id":1818,"date":"2008-09-03T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/yankees-rays-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:32:00","slug":"yankees-rays-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/yankees-rays-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees-Rays Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays will meet on the field at Tropicana Field on Wednesday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander Carl Pavano will take the mound for the Yankees to start this game. Pavano is 2-0 this season with a 3.27 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Edwin Jackson toeing the rubber for the Rays in this contest. Righthander Jackson is 11-8 with a 3.81 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Rays listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Yankees, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Xavier Nady hit a two-run homer, as the Yankees dumped the Rays 7-2 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as +105 road underdogs as the game played over the 8.5-run total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alex Rodriguez went 2-for-3 with a solo shot for the Yankees, while Mike Mussina gave up two runs over six innings to earn the victory for New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cliff Floyd and Shawn Riggans plated runs for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, as Matt Garza allowed four earned runs over five innings to take the loss for the Rays. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 74-64 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 84-52 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 7-3
Before playing Tampa Bay are 7-3
After playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing NY Yankees are 5-5
After playing NY Yankees are 3-7
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
NY Yankees are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games on the road
NY Yankees are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
NY Yankees are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
NY Yankees are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
Tampa Bay is 3-6 SU in their last 9 games when playing at home against NY Yankees
Tampa Bay is 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing NY Yankees<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> home to NY Yankees, Thursday, September 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays will meet on the field at Tropicana Field on Wednesday in a battle of division rivals. Righthander Carl Pavano will take the mound for the Yankees to start this game. Pavano is 2-0 this season with a 3.27 ERA. It’ll be Edwin Jackson toeing the rubber … Continue reading Yankees-Rays 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-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}