{"id":5092,"date":"2009-07-31T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/royals-rays-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:26:00","slug":"royals-rays-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/royals-rays-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Rays Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Sidney<\/st2:GivenName> Ponson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Ponson has a 1-6 record and a 6.18 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be David<\/st2:GivenName> Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 3-4 with a 5.60 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 220-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals were defeated 7-3 by the Orioles last time out, as +145 underdogs. The game’s 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David<\/st2:GivenName> DeJesus<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had three hits and drove in one run for the Royals. Luke<\/st2:GivenName> Hochevar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered 11 hits and seven runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> were defeated 6-2 by the Yankees in the rubber match on Wednesday, as a -110 pick’em. That game’s eight runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Evan<\/st2:GivenName> Longoria<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a two-run homer for the Rays<\/st2:Sn>, while Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Garza<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up eight hits and three runs over seven innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 40-61 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 55-47 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Friday are 3-7
Before playing Tampa Bay are 1-9
After playing Baltimore are 5-5
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Kansas City are 7-3
After playing NY Yankees are 2-8
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Kansas City’s last 10 games when playing Tampa Bay
Kansas City is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Kansas City is 3-13 SU in its last 16 games
Kansas City is 1-8 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Kansas City
Tampa Bay is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Tampa Bay’s last 12 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Tampa Bay’s last 10 games when playing Kansas City<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, August 1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Tropicana Field. The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Sidney Ponson in this game. Ponson has a 1-6 record and a 6.18 ERA this season. It’ll be … Continue reading Royals-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-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}