{"id":4784,"date":"2009-06-27T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/marlins-rays-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T13:10:00","slug":"marlins-rays-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/marlins-rays-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins-Rays Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Florida Marlins 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
Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Chris<\/st2:middlename> Volstad<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Marlins to start this game. Volstad is 5-7 this season with a 4.73 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Jeff<\/st2:GivenName> Niemann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Niemann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 6-4 with a 4.23 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
B.J.<\/st2:GivenName> Upton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in three runs to help the Rays<\/st2:Sn> defeat the Marlins 7-3 on Friday, as -140 favorites. That game’s 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Gabe<\/st2:GivenName> Gross<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-3 at the plate and scored for the Rays<\/st2:Sn>. J.P.<\/st2:GivenName> Howell<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered just one hit in relief for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hanley<\/st2:GivenName> Ramirez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a solo home run and drove in two runs for the Marlins, who were +120 underdogs. Renyel Pinto gave up two runs in relief in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 38-37 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 40-35 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Tampa Bay are 1-9
After playing Tampa Bay are 6-4
After a loss are 8-2<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
Florida is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
Florida is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games at home
Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Florida
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, June 28<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Florida Marlins and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Tropicana Field. Righthander Chris Volstad will take the mound for the Marlins to start this game. Volstad is 5-7 this season with a 4.73 ERA. It’ll be Jeff Niemann toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading Marlins-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-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}