{"id":4418,"date":"2009-05-16T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/indians-rays-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T13:50:00","slug":"indians-rays-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/indians-rays-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians-Rays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Indians and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carl<\/st1:GivenName> Pavano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Indians on this day. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Pavano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 3-3 this season with a 6.45 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Rays<\/st1:Sn> will be Matt<\/st1:GivenName> Garza<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. The righthander has a 3.56 ERA to go along with a 3-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st1:Sn> listed as 170-moneyline favorites versus the Indians, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st1:Sn> came from seven runs down to defeat the Indians 8-7 on Friday, as -155 favorites. The game’s 15 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (10.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
B.J.<\/st1:GivenName> Upton<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had three hits and drove in one run for the Rays<\/st1:Sn>. Dan<\/st1:GivenName> Wheeler<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> tossed an inning of relief and picked up his first win of the season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Shin-Soo Choo hit a two-run homer for the Indians, who were +135 underdogs in that game. Luis<\/st1:GivenName> Vizcaino<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up the winning run and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 14-23 SU
Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>: 17-20 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Tampa Bay are 7-3
After playing Tampa Bay are 4-6
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Cleveland are 3-7
After playing Cleveland are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Cleveland is 20-5 SU in its last 25 games when playing Tampa Bay
Cleveland is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Cleveland is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games
Tampa Bay is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Cleveland
Tampa Bay is 5-20 SU in its last 25 games when playing Cleveland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> Bay home to Cleveland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Sunday, May 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Indians and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Tropicana Field. Carl Pavano will be the starting pitcher for the Indians on this day. Righthander Pavano is 3-3 this season with a 6.45 ERA. Starting this game for the Rays will … Continue reading Indians-Rays 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-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","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=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}