{"id":2018,"date":"2008-09-19T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/twins-rays-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T12:47:00","slug":"twins-rays-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/twins-rays-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Rays Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nick Blackburn will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Righthander Blackburn is 10-9 this season with a 3.89 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Edwin Jackson toeing the rubber for the Rays in this contest. Righthander Jackson is 11-11 with a 4.33 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Twins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Twins scored five runs in the ninth inning to come back and defeat the Rays 11-8 as a +150 underdog on Thursday. The combined 19 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joe Mauer went 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBIs to lead the Twins. Eddie Guardado earned the win in relief, and Joe Nathan closed out the game with his 37th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Evan Longoria cracked three home runs in a losing effort for the Rays, who were favored at -160 in that game. Dan Wheeler surrendered four runs in relief to take the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 83-70 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 90-61 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Friday are 9-1
Before playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After playing Tampa Bay are 2-8
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Minnesota are 5-5
After playing Minnesota are 5-5
After a loss are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Minnesota’s last 11 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Minnesota’s last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
Minnesota is 19-6 SU in its last 25 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Minnesota’s last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Tampa Bay’s last 10 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Tampa Bay’s last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games when playing Minnesota
Tampa Bay is 16-7 SU in its last 23 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, September 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Tropicana Field. Nick Blackburn will be the starting pitcher for the Twins on this day. Righthander Blackburn is 10-9 this season with a 3.89 ERA. It’ll be Edwin Jackson toeing the rubber … Continue reading Twins-Rays Preview<\/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-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","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=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}