{"id":4652,"date":"2009-06-19T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/mlb-betting-rays-head-to-new-york-but-not-to-face-the-yankees\/"},"modified":"2009-06-19T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:53:00","slug":"mlb-betting-rays-head-to-new-york-but-not-to-face-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/mlb-betting-rays-head-to-new-york-but-not-to-face-the-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Betting &#8211; Rays Head To New York, But Not To Face The Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/US-Open-Odds-1088.aspx\" title=\"US Open betting odds\">US Open betting odds<\/a> are the major play in the &#8220;Big Apple&#8221; right now, but there is also a very interesting baseball betting matchup to watch out for <\/span><\/font><st1:place>Queens<\/st1:place>. <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> is used to playing in <st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> as they&#8217;re in the same division as the Yankees, but they&#8217;ll get to see the other side when they head to <span class=SpellE>Citi<\/span> Field to meet the Mets, who are hoping for a return to form by their struggling ace.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<h1><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rays Mets odds &#8211; Saturday, June 19, 4:10 PM ET<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/b><\/h1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>James Shields (5-5, 3.52) will be making his 100<sup>th<\/sup> career start, and he&#8217;ll hope that it goes better than No.99, although he managed to escape with a no-decision. Shields gave up four runs for the second straight outing, along with nine hits over 6.1 innings of a 5-4 win over <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. The 27-year-old <span class=SpellE>righthander<\/span> is an innings-eater, as he is sixth in the American League in that category, but he&#8217;s been hit hard in his last two starts, and he&#8217;s 1-3 with 4.15 ERA on the road, which may scare off some who are making <a href=\"http:\/\/bettorsedge.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"sports picks\" id=n.eh>sports picks<\/a>. This will also be his first career start against the Mets.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Johan Santana (8-4, 3.29) has given up 14 runs in his last 10 innings of work, and his performance in a 15-0 loss to the Yankees was as bad as anyone has ever seen from &#8220;Johan <span class=GramE>The<\/span> Great&#8221;. The 30-year-old southpaw was nailed for nine runs on nine hits in just three innings, and he&#8217;s allowed homers in his last six starts, including five in the last two. He could be itching to get back to <span class=SpellE>Citi<\/span> Field, where he is 5-1 with a 2.14 ERA this season, which should give him the edge according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payperhead.com\" title=\"betting software\" id=qoka>betting software<\/a>. He&#8217;s made seven starts and 11 overall appearances against the Rays, going 3-2 with a 2.79 ERA.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Baseball betting odds should back the Mets at home, and we&#8217;ll find out in this outing if Santana is hurt, because it&#8217;s difficult to believe that a dominant pitcher like the two-time <span class=GramE>Cy<\/span> Young winner can just go downhill so quickly. <span class=GramE>Shields hasn&#8217;t<\/span> been awful, but he hasn&#8217;t looked like the guy who had 14 wins in 2008. The Rays will be wrapping up a road trip, just coming from <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, while the Mets are returning to home. Look for that to give them a betting edge, and take the Mets&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betonline.com\/sports-betting\/baseball\" title=\"MLB odds\" id=khnn>MLB odds<\/a> on Saturday afternoon.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>US Open betting odds are the major play in the &#8220;Big Apple&#8221; right now, but there is also a very interesting baseball betting matchup to watch out for Queens. Tampa Bay is used to playing in New York as they&#8217;re in the same division as the Yankees, but they&#8217;ll get to see the other side &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/mlb-betting-rays-head-to-new-york-but-not-to-face-the-yankees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MLB Betting &#8211; Rays Head To New York, But Not To Face The Yankees<\/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-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","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=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}