{"id":4516,"date":"2009-05-30T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/twins-rays-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:45:00","slug":"twins-rays-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/twins-rays-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins-Rays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace lefthander Francisco<\/st2:GivenName> Liriano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Twins to start this game. Liriano is 2-6 this season with a 6.42 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be David<\/st2:GivenName> Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 0-0 with a 5.41 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 130-moneyline favorites versus the Twins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Evan<\/st2:GivenName> Longoria<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a three run homer to lift the Rays<\/st2:Sn> to a 5-3 victory over the Twins on Friday, as -150 favorites. That game’s eight runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carl<\/st2:GivenName> Crawford<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had two hits with three runs scored and one run batted in for the Rays<\/st2:Sn>. Josh<\/st2:GivenName> Fields<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up seven hits and two runs over seven innings in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Justin<\/st2:GivenName> Morneau<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in one run and finished 2-for-4 at the plate. Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Baker<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up seven hits and four runs over 5 2-3 innings on the mound for the Twins, who were +130 underdogs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 24-26 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 24-27 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Tampa Bay are 3-7
After playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 9-1
Before playing Minnesota are 4-6
After playing Minnesota are 5-5
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Minnesota is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games
Minnesota is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Minnesota is 1-10 SU in its last 11 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home
Tampa Bay is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Minnesota
Tampa Bay is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, May 31<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Minnesota Twins and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Tropicana Field. Ace lefthander Francisco Liriano will take the mound for the Twins to start this game. Liriano is 2-6 this season with a 6.42 ERA. It’ll be David Price toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Twins-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-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}