{"id":5135,"date":"2009-08-03T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-rays-odds-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:57:00","slug":"royals-rays-odds-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/royals-rays-odds-preview-3\/","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 trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Greinke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Greinke has a 10-6 record and a 2.08 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Kazmir<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Kazmir<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 5-6 with a 6.22 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 145-moneyline favorites versus the Royals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Royals defeated Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> 4-1 as a +230 underdog on Sunday. The five runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mitch<\/st2:GivenName> Maier<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 2-3 with three RBI for Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Bannister<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> pitched seven shutout innings in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ben<\/st2:GivenName> Zobrist<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a solo home run for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> and James Shields took the loss after allowing one earned run on two hits in 7 1-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 41-63 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 57-48 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kansas City most recently:
When playing on Monday are 6-4
Before playing Seattle are 10-0
After playing Tampa Bay are 3-7
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Boston are 5-5
After playing Kansas City are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Kansas City’s last 21 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Kansas City is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing Kansas City
Tampa Bay is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games when playing Kansas City
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>, Tuesday, August 4
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> home to Boston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 4<\/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 Monday when they battle at Tropicana Field. The Royals will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Zach Greinke in this game. Greinke has a 10-6 record and a 2.08 ERA this season. It’ll … 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-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","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=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}