{"id":4442,"date":"2009-05-19T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/athletics-rays-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T11:20:00","slug":"athletics-rays-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/athletics-rays-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Rays Lines 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 Tuesday when they meet at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lefthander Josh Outman will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Outman is 1-0 this season with a 4.38 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> will be James Shields. The righthander has a 3.98 ERA to go along with a 3-4 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 200-moneyline favorites versus the Athletics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Bartlett<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in five runs on Monday night as the Rays<\/st2:Sn> cruised to a 13-4 win over the Athletics. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> had no trouble getting the victory as -136 home favorites in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the night’s posted total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 13-22 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 20-20 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oakland most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 3-7
Before playing Tampa Bay are 3-7
After playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 8-2
Before playing Oakland are 5-5
After playing Oakland 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 on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Oakland’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Oakland’s last 8 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Oakland is 5-11 SU in its last 16 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Tampa Bay’s last 7 games
Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Oakland
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, May 20<\/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 Tuesday when they meet at Tropicana Field. Lefthander Josh Outman will take the mound for the Athletics to start this game. Outman is 1-0 this season with a 4.38 ERA. Starting this game for the Rays will be James … Continue reading Athletics-Rays 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-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","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=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}