{"id":2328,"date":"2008-10-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/rays-red-sox-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T12:00:00","slug":"rays-red-sox-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/rays-red-sox-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Red Sox Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Fenway<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander Matt Garza will take the mound for the Rays to start this game. Garza is 11-10 this season with a 3.82 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Jon Lester toeing the rubber for the Red Sox in this contest. Lefthander Lester is 17-6 with a 3.01 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Red Sox listed as 185-moneyline favorites versus the Rays, while the game’s total is sitting at 8\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
B.J. Upton drove in the winning run in the 11th<\/sup> inning on Saturday night as the Rays topped the Red Sox 9-8 in Game 2 of this series. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays pulled out the win as -114 home favorites in that contest, while the combined score went well OVER the night’s posted total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 97-65 SU
Boston: 95-67 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Monday are 6-4
Before playing Boston are 5-5
After playing Boston are 9-1
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Boston
Tampa Bay is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games when playing Boston
Tampa Bay is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
Boston is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston’s last 7 games at home
Boston is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Tuesday, October 14<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Fenway Park. Righthander Matt Garza will take the mound for the Rays to start this game. Garza is 11-10 this season with a 3.82 ERA. It’ll be Jon Lester toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Rays-Red Sox 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-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","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=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}