{"id":2407,"date":"2008-10-22T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/phillies-rays-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T12:04:00","slug":"phillies-rays-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/phillies-rays-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies-Rays Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Tropicana Field in Game 1 of the World Series.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Phillies will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Cole Hamels in this game. Hamels had a 16-10 record and a 2.92 ERA this season.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hamels’ opponent in this one will be Scott Kazmir. The Rays ace lefthander had a 3.54 ERA to go along with a 13-8 record this season.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Phillies listed as 103-moneyline favorites versus the Rays, while the game’s total is sitting at 7\u00bd.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Phillies finished off the Dodgers with a 5-1 win in Game 5 to clinch the NLCS last week, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1993.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Phillies won the game as -118 favorties, while the six runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (7.5).<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan Howard went 3-for-4 at the plate with one RBI for the Phillies. Hamels allowed one run off five hits over seven innings for the win.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt Garza went seven strong innings on Sunday night to lead the Rays to a 3-1 win over the Red Sox and a berth in the World Series.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays got the victory as +120 home underdogs in that Game 7, while the combined score fell UNDER the night’s posted total (8.5).<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Garza gave up just one earned run on two hits and fanned nine over his seven innings of work in the win. Willy Aybar homered for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on the night.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 92-70 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 97-65 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Philadelphia most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 8-2
Before playing Tampa Bay are 2-8
After playing LA Dodgers are 8-2
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Philadelphia is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
Philadelphia is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Philadelphia’s last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Philadelphia’s last 9 games
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Philadelphia
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games at home
Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Philadelphia
The total has gone OVER in 13 of Tampa Bay’s last 19 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, October 23<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Tropicana Field in Game 1 of the World Series. The Phillies will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Cole Hamels in this game. Hamels had a 16-10 record and a 2.92 ERA … Continue reading Phillies-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-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}