{"id":4179,"date":"2009-04-11T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rays-orioles-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-04-11T06:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T11:21:00","slug":"rays-orioles-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rays-orioles-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Orioles Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays and the Baltimore Orioles will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Camden Yards. <br \/>Jeff Niemann will be the starting pitcher for the Rays on this day. Righthander Niemann is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. <br \/>Meanwhile, it&#39;ll be ace Jeremy Guthrie who starts for the Orioles. Righthander Guthrie is 1-0 with a 4.50 ERA so far this season. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Orioles listed as 115-moneyline favorites versus the Rays, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Melvin Mora drove in three runs to lead the Orioles in a 5-4 win over the Rays in Friday&#39;s series-opener, as +100 underdogs. The game&#39;s nine runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <br \/>Nick Markakis drove in the other run for the Orioles. Mark Hendrickson tossed 5 1-3 innings for the victory, and George Sherrill picked up his second save. <br \/>Evan Longoria belted two home runs to drive in all three runs for the Rays, who were favored at -120. Andy Sonnanstine surrendered five runs over 4 2-3 innings in the taking the loss. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Tampa Bay: 2-2 SU<br \/>Baltimore: 3-1 SU<br \/>Tampa Bay most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Baltimore are 9-1<br \/>After playing Baltimore are 8-2<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing Tampa Bay are 1-9<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 1-9<br \/>After a win are 2-8<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Tampa Bay is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games when playing Baltimore<br \/>Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Baltimore<br \/>Tampa Bay is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Tampa Bay is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road<br \/>Baltimore is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Baltimore is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>Baltimore is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games at home<br \/>Baltimore is 4-12 SU in its last 16 games <br \/>Next up:<br \/>Baltimore home to Tampa Bay, Sunday, April 12<\/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 Baltimore Orioles will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Camden Yards. Jeff Niemann will be the starting pitcher for the Rays on this day. Righthander Niemann is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. Meanwhile, it&#39;ll be ace Jeremy Guthrie who starts for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/rays-orioles-lines-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rays-Orioles Lines 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-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}