{"id":4391,"date":"2009-05-09T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rays-red-sox-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:35:00","slug":"rays-red-sox-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/rays-red-sox-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Red Sox Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox will meet on the field at Fenway<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Kazmir<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> on this day. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Kazmir<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 3-3 this season with a 6.00 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Red Sox will be Jon<\/st2:GivenName> Lester<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The lefthander has a 5.11 ERA to go along with a 2-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Red Sox listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Rays<\/st2:Sn>, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Red Sox scored five runs in the sixth inning on Friday, as they defeated the Rays<\/st2:Sn> 7-3. The Red Sox won the game as a -110 pick’em, and the 10 runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> went 2-for-4 at the plate, including a three-run homer. Brad<\/st2:GivenName> Penny<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> improved to 3-1 with the victory, giving up eight hits and three runs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Bartlett<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had three hits and drove in one run for the Rays<\/st2:Sn>. James Shields was rocked for 10 hits and five runs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 14-17 SU
Boston: 19-11 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 8-2
Before playing Boston are 5-5
After playing Boston are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Tampa Bay is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Boston
Tampa Bay is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
Tampa Bay is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Boston
Tampa Bay is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games when playing on the road against Boston
Boston is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games at home
Boston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Boston is 17-8 SU in its last 25 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
Boston is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Sunday, May 10<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox will meet on the field at Fenway Park on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. Ace Scott Kazmir will be the starting pitcher for the Rays on this day. Lefthander Kazmir is 3-3 this season with a 6.00 ERA. Starting this game for the Red … Continue reading Rays-Red Sox Odds 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-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","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=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}