{"id":4562,"date":"2009-06-13T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/nationals-rays-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T11:34:00","slug":"nationals-rays-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/nationals-rays-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals-Rays Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Washington Nationals 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
Jordan<\/st1:GivenName> Zimmermann<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Nationals on this day. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Zimmermann<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 2-3 this season with a 5.71 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zimmermann<\/st1:Sn>‘s opponent in this one will be Andy<\/st1:GivenName> Sonnanstine<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. The Rays<\/st1:GivenName> righthander has a 7.00 ERA to go along with a 4-6 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st1:Sn> listed as 168-moneyline favorites versus the Nationals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Gabe<\/st1:GivenName> Kapler<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> belted a game-winning home run in the bottom the eighth inning to lift the Rays<\/st1:Sn> to a 4-3 win over the Nationals on Friday. The Rays<\/st1:Sn> won the game as -240 favorites, while the seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dioner Navarro had two hits and drove in one run for the Rays<\/st1:Sn>. J.P.<\/st1:GivenName> Howell<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> evened his record at 2-2 with the victory in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st1:GivenName> Dunn<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went 2-for-2 at the plate with one RBI for the Nationals, who were +210 underdogs. Ron<\/st1:GivenName> Villone<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up the winning run and suffered the loss on the mound. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>: 16-43 SU
Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>: 32-31 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Washington most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Tampa Bay are 3-7
After playing Tampa Bay are 7-3
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 8-2
Before playing Washington are 6-4
After playing Washington are 3-7
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Washington’s last 8 games on the road
Washington is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Washington’s last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Tampa Bay’s last 14 games
Tampa Bay is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Tampa Bay’s last 10 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> Bay home to Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>, Sunday, June 14<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Washington Nationals and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Tropicana Field. Jordan Zimmermann will be the starting pitcher for the Nationals on this day. Righthander Zimmermann is 2-3 this season with a 5.71 ERA. Zimmermann‘s opponent in this one will be … Continue reading Nationals-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-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","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=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}