{"id":4987,"date":"2009-07-25T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rays-blue-jays-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T12:54:00","slug":"rays-blue-jays-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rays-blue-jays-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays-Blue Jays 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 Tampa Bay Rays and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Rogers Centre. <?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>Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:middlename>David<\/st2:middlename> <st2:Sn>Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the <st2:Sn>Rays<\/st2:Sn> to start this game. Price is 3-4 this season with a 4.86 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Price&#8217;s opponent in this one will be <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Brian<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Tallet<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Blue Jays lefthander has a 4.86 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 Blue Jays listed as 115-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\">The <st2:Sn>Rays<\/st2:Sn> scored twice in the top of the 10<sup>th<\/sup> inning as they defeated the Blue Jays 4-2 on Friday, as +140 underdogs. The six runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (7.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Evan<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Longoria<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the <st2:Sn>Rays<\/st2:Sn> with three RBIs, and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Matt<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Garza<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went nine innings for the win. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>J.P.<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Powell<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered the winning runa in relief. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Hill<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Marco<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Scutaro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in both runs for the Blue Jays, who were -160 favorites. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Scott<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Downs<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up the winning run and suffered the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<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>: 53-44 SU<br \/>Toronto: 47-50 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 Saturday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Toronto are 6-4<br \/>After playing Toronto are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Toronto most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Tampa Bay are 4-6<br \/>After playing Tampa Bay are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<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 when playing Toronto<br \/>Toronto is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games at home<br \/>Toronto is 6-16 SU in its last 22 games <br \/>Toronto is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing 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>Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, Sunday, July 26<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 Tampa Bay Rays and the Toronto Blue Jays will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Rogers Centre. Lefthander David Price will take the mound for the Rays to start this game. Price is 3-4 this season with a 4.86 ERA. Price&#8217;s opponent in this one will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/rays-blue-jays-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rays-Blue Jays 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-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","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=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}