{"id":4951,"date":"2009-07-22T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rays-white-sox-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-22T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:34:00","slug":"rays-white-sox-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rays-white-sox-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-White Sox Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
James Shields will be the starting pitcher for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> on this day. Righthander Shields is 6-6 this season with a 3.75 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Torres<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the White Sox in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Torres<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be making his season debut. <\/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
Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Pena’s sacrifice fly in the top of the ninth inning lifted the Rays<\/st2:Sn> over the White Sox 3-2 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> won as -140 road favorites as the teams played UNDER the 10-run total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Evan<\/st2:GivenName> Longoria<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Pat<\/st2:GivenName> Burrell<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> also drove in runs for the Rays<\/st2:Sn>, while Jeff<\/st2:GivenName> Niemann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed two runs over eight innings to earn the win for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Gordon<\/st2:GivenName> Beckham<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 3-for-4 with a run batted in for Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, as Bobby<\/st2:GivenName> Jenks<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> took the loss after surrendering the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 52-42 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 48-45 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 6-4
Before playing Chi White Sox are 5-5
After playing Chi White Sox are 4-6
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Tampa Bay is 8-16 SU in their last 24 games when playing on the road against Chi White Sox
Tampa Bay is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing Chi White Sox
Chi White Sox are 7-3 SU in their last 10 games at home
Chi White Sox are 16-8 SU in their last 24 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
Chi White Sox are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay
Chi White Sox are 15-8 SU in their last 23 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi White Sox home to Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Thursday, July 23<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago White Sox will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at U.S. Cellular Field. James Shields will be the starting pitcher for the Rays on this day. Righthander Shields is 6-6 this season with a 3.75 ERA. It’ll be Carlos Torres toeing … Continue reading Rays-White Sox Odds 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-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","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=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}