{"id":4885,"date":"2009-07-17T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rays-royals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:44:00","slug":"rays-royals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rays-royals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Royals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander James Shields in this game. Shields has a 6-6 record and a 3.42 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Shields’s opponent in this one will be Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Royals righthander has a 3.57 ERA to go along with a 6-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Royals listed as 120-moneyline favorites versus the Rays<\/st2:Sn>, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> lost to Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 7-3 as a -190 favorite on Sunday. The 10 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pat<\/st2:GivenName> Burrell<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 2-4 with two RBI for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> and James Shields allowed three runs on six hits in 6 1-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals lost to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 6-0 as a +250 underdog on Sunday. The six runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Bruce<\/st2:GivenName> Chen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> took the loss for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> after giving up three runs on six hits in three innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has lost 2 straight games.
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 48-41 SU
Kansas City: 37-51 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Kansas City are 8-2
After playing Oakland are 4-6
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Tampa Bay are 1-9
After playing Boston are 0-10
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Tampa Bay’s last 7 games when playing Kansas City
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Tampa Bay’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Kansas City’s last 7 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Kansas City’s last 17 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Saturday, July 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Kansas City Royals will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Kauffman Stadium. The Rays will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander James Shields in this game. Shields has a 6-6 record and a 3.42 ERA this season. Shields’s opponent in this … Continue reading Rays-Royals 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-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","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=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}