{"id":2186,"date":"2008-10-03T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/white-sox-rays-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T10:56:00","slug":"white-sox-rays-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/white-sox-rays-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox-Rays Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago White Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace lefthander Mark Buehrle will take the mound for the White Sox to start this game. Buehrle is 15-12 this season with a 3.79 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be ace Scott Kazmir who starts for the Rays. Lefthander Kazmir is 12-8 with a 3.49 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Evan Longoria belted two home runs in leading the Rays to a 6-4 win over the White Sox in Thursday’s series opener. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays won that game as -180 favorites, while the 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Longoria finished 3-for-3 with three RBIs for the Rays, and Akinori Iwamura had two hits with one run batted in. James Shields tossed 6 1-3 innings for the win, and Dan Wheeler closed out the ninth for the save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dewayne Wise cracked a three-run homer in a losing effort for the White Sox, who were +165 underdogs. Javier Vazquez was rocked for six runs off eight hits over 4 1-3 innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago: 88-74 SU
Tampa Bay: 97-65 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After playing Tampa Bay are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Chi White Sox are 7-3
After playing Chi White Sox are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Chi White Sox are 3-6 SU in their last 9 games
Chi White Sox are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Chi White Sox are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games on the road
Chi White Sox are 1-6 SU in their last 7 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in their last 7 games when playing Chi White Sox
Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against Chi White Sox
Tampa Bay is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games at home
Tampa Bay is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa Bay at Chi White Sox, Sunday, October 5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Chicago White Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Tropicana Field. Ace lefthander Mark Buehrle will take the mound for the White Sox to start this game. Buehrle is 15-12 this season with a 3.79 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be ace Scott Kazmir … Continue reading White Sox-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-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}