{"id":5106,"date":"2009-08-01T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-rays-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T12:54:00","slug":"royals-rays-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-rays-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Rays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals 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
The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Bruce<\/st2:GivenName> Chen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Chen<\/st2:Sn> has a 0-4 record and a 6.84 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> will counter Chen<\/st2:Sn> with Jeff<\/st2:GivenName> Niemann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Niemann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.66 ERA to go along with a 9-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 270-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Pena<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a three-run homer as the Rays<\/st2:Sn> pounded the Royals 8-2 on Friday, as -250 favorites. That game’s 10 runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dioner Navarro also homered in the win for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. David<\/st2:GivenName> Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> improved to 4-4 with the win, allowing just five hits and one run over seven innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alex<\/st2:GivenName> Gordon<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Brayan<\/st2:GivenName> Pena<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in one run each for the Royals, who were +220 underdogs. Sidney<\/st2:GivenName> Ponson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up eight hits and seven runs over 4 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 40-62 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 56-47 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Tampa Bay are 1-9
After playing Tampa Bay are 2-8
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Kansas City are 6-4
After playing Kansas City are 7-3
After a win 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 11 games when playing Tampa Bay
Kansas City is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road
Kansas City is 3-14 SU in its last 17 games
Kansas City is 1-9 SU in its last 10 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 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Tampa Bay’s last 13 games
Tampa Bay is 16-5 SU in its last 21 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Tropicana Field. The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Bruce Chen in this game. Chen has a 0-4 record and a 6.84 ERA this season. The Rays will counter … Continue reading Royals-Rays 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-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","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=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}