{"id":4628,"date":"2009-06-18T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rays-rockies-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T15:08:00","slug":"rays-rockies-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rays-rockies-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Rockies Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The fans at Coors Field will be treated to a interleague game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Colorado Rockies when they take their seats on Thursday. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Matt<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Garza<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the <st2:Sn>Rays<\/st2:Sn> on this day. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Garza<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 4-4 this season with a 3.63 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> will counter <st2:Sn>Garza<\/st2:Sn> with <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Ubaldo<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Jimenez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Jimenez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.92 ERA to go along with a 5-6 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> listed as 108-moneyline favorites versus the <st2:Sn>Rays<\/st2:Sn>, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Troy Tulowitzki cracked a three-run homer to help lift the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> to a 5-3 win over the <st2:Sn>Rays<\/st2:Sn> on Wednesday, as -155 favorites. The eight runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Chris<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Iannetta<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had two hits and drove in one run for the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place>. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Cook<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scattered eight hits and three runs over seven innings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Carl<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Crawford<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Evan<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Longoria<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> both went deep in a losing effort for the <st2:Sn>Rays<\/st2:Sn>. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>David<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered 10 hits and five runs over seven innings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 35-32 SU<br \/>Colorado: 32-33 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Tampa Bay most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing NY Mets are 3-6<br \/>After playing Colorado are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Colorado most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 9-1<br \/>Before playing Pittsburgh are 5-5<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 9-1<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Tampa Bay is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Colorado<br \/>Tampa Bay is 2-8 SU in its last 10 games on the road<br \/>Colorado is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games <br \/>Colorado is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Colorado is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay at NY Mets, Friday, <st2:GivenName>June<\/st2:GivenName> 19<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, June 19<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at Coors Field will be treated to a interleague game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Colorado Rockies when they take their seats on Thursday. Matt Garza will be the starting pitcher for the Rays on this day. Righthander Garza is 4-4 this season with a 3.63 ERA. The Rockies will counter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rays-rockies-lines-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rays-Rockies Lines Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","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=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}