{"id":4372,"date":"2009-05-07T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rays-yankees-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:52:00","slug":"rays-yankees-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rays-yankees-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Yankees Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st1:Sn> will give the ball to starter Jeff<\/st1:GivenName> Niemann<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Niemann<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 2-3 this season with a 5.68 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Yankees will counter Niemann with Andy<\/st1:GivenName> Pettitte<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. Lefthander<\/st1:GivenName> Pettitte<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> has a 3.82 ERA to go along with a 2-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Yankees listed as 160-moneyline favorites versus the Rays<\/st1:Sn>, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos<\/st1:GivenName> Pena<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> belted a home run in the 10th<\/sup> inning to lift the Rays<\/st1:Sn> past the Yankees 4-3 on Wednesday, as +150 underdogs. That game’s seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Grant<\/st1:GivenName> Balfour<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> collected the win in relief, and Troy Percival collected his fifth save with a scoreless 10th<\/sup>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark<\/st1:GivenName> Teixeira<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had two hits and drove in three runs for the Yankees, who were -170 favorites. Phil<\/st1:GivenName> Coke<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> allowed the winning run and suffered the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> has won 2 straight games.
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> has lost 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>: 13-16 SU
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>: 13-14 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 1-9
Before playing Boston are 5-5
After playing NY Yankees are 1-9
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Tampa Bay is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
Tampa Bay is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing NY Yankees
Tampa Bay is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 2-6 SU in their last 8 games when playing on the road against NY Yankees
NY Yankees are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
NY Yankees are 14-7 SU in their last 21 games at home
NY Yankees are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay
NY Yankees are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> Bay at Boston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Friday, May 8
NY Yankees at Baltimore<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, May 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Yankee Stadium. The Rays will give the ball to starter Jeff Niemann in this one. Righthander Niemann is 2-3 this season with a 5.68 ERA. The Yankees will counter Niemann with Andy Pettitte. … Continue reading Rays-Yankees Lines 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-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","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=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}