{"id":2336,"date":"2008-10-14T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/rays-red-sox-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T12:49:00","slug":"rays-red-sox-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/rays-red-sox-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Red Sox Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Fenway Park in Game 4 of the ALCS.<br \/>The Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Andy Sonnanstine in this game. Sonnanstine has a 14-9 record and a 4.34 ERA this season.<br \/>The Red Sox will counter Sonnanstine with Tim Wakefield. Righthander Wakefield has a 4.13 ERA to go along with a 10-11 record this season.<br \/>Odds aren&#39;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total.<br \/>B.J. Upton went 2-for-5 with a three-run homer as the Rays walked past the Red Sox 9-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the ALCS on Monday.<br \/>Tampa Bay cashed as +170 road underdogs as the game played over the 8.5-run total listed by oddsmakers.<br \/>Rocco Baldelli also had a three-run jack for the Rays, while winning pitcher Matt Garza allowed one run over six innings for Tampa Bay.<br \/>Jacoby Ellsbury drove in the lone run for Boston, as Jon Lester gave up four earned runs over 5 2-3 innings to take the loss for the Red Sox.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Tampa Bay: 97-65 SU<br \/>Boston: 95-67 SU<br \/>Tampa Bay most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 2-8<br \/>Before playing Boston are 5-5<br \/>After playing Boston are 9-1<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Boston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Tampa Bay are 6-4<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Boston<br \/>Tampa Bay is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Tampa Bay&#39;s last 6 games when playing Boston<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Tampa Bay&#39;s last 9 games on the road<br \/>Boston is 19-6 SU in its last 25 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston&#39;s last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston&#39;s last 6 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<br \/>Boston is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Boston home to Tampa Bay, Thursday, October 16<\/p>\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>The Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Fenway Park in Game 4 of the ALCS.The Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Andy Sonnanstine in this game. Sonnanstine has a 14-9 record and a 4.34 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/rays-red-sox-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rays-Red Sox Preview<\/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-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}