{"id":5124,"date":"2009-08-02T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-rays-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-02T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:53:00","slug":"royals-rays-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-rays-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals-Rays Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Kansas City Royals will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Sunday when they take on the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will give the ball to starter Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 6-7 this season with a 3.72 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> will counter Bannister<\/st2:Sn> with ace James Shields. Righthander Shields has a 3.88 ERA to go along with a 6-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 300-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rays<\/st2:Sn> scored four runs in the eighth inning and secured a second straight win with a 7-1 drubbing of the Royals on Saturday, as -320 favorites. That game’s eight runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carl<\/st2:GivenName> Crawford<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the Rays<\/st2:Sn> with a two-run homer, and Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Bartlett<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> also drove in a pair of runs. Jeff<\/st2:GivenName> Niemann<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed just four hits and one run over eight innings for his 10th<\/sup> victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David<\/st2:GivenName> DeJesus<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> homered for the Royals, who were +270 underdogs. Bruce<\/st2:GivenName> Chen<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up five hits and three runs over 6 2-3 innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 40-63 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 57-47 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 7-3
Before playing Tampa Bay are 0-10
After playing Tampa Bay are 2-8
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing Kansas City are 7-3
After playing Kansas City are 7-3
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Kansas City is 3-15 SU in its last 18 games
Kansas City is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Kansas City is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Kansas City
Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Kansas City
Tampa Bay is 17-5 SU in its last 22 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>, Monday, August 3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Kansas City Royals will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Sunday when they take on the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. The Royals will give the ball to starter Brian Bannister in this one. Righthander Bannister is 6-7 this season with a 3.72 ERA. The Rays will counter Bannister with ace … 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-5124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124","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=5124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}