{"id":4431,"date":"2009-05-18T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/athletics-rays-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-18T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T10:54:00","slug":"athletics-rays-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/athletics-rays-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Rays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Sean<\/st2:middlename> Gallagher<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Gallagher is 0-1 this season with a 5.40 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Gallagher’s opponent in this one will be Jeff<\/st2:GivenName> Niemann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Rays<\/st2:GivenName> righthander has a 5.35 ERA to go along with a 3-3 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 150-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Athletics lost to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 11-7 as a +120 underdog on Sunday. The 18 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Orlando Cabrera and Adam<\/st2:GivenName> Kennedy<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> clubbed solo home runs for Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Cahill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was roughed up for seven runs on seven hits in 2 1-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> defeated Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> 7-5 as a -145 favorite on Sunday. The 12 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Michel<\/st2:GivenName> Hernandez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in three runs for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> and Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Bartlett<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 3-4 with an RBI and two runs scored in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 13-21 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 19-20 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Monday are 3-7
Before playing Tampa Bay are 3-7
After playing Detroit are 4-6
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

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

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

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The Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Monday when they meet at Tropicana Field. Righthander Sean Gallagher will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Gallagher is 0-1 this season with a 5.40 ERA. Gallagher’s opponent in this one will be Jeff Niemann. … Continue reading Athletics-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-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","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=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}