{"id":5361,"date":"2009-08-23T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/rangers-rays-baseball-betting\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T15:11:00","slug":"rangers-rays-baseball-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/rangers-rays-baseball-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers-Rays Baseball Betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Texas Rangers and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Tropicana Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rangers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Feldman<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Feldman has a 12-4 record and a 3.65 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Rays<\/st2:Sn> will be David<\/st2:GivenName> Price<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The lefthander has a 5.03 ERA to go along with a 6-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rays<\/st2:Sn> listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Rangers, 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 two home runs and drove in the winning run to lift the Rays<\/st2:Sn> to a 5-4 victory over the Rangers in 10 innings on Saturday. The Rays<\/st2:Sn> won that game as a -170 favorites, while the nine runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pena<\/st2:Sn> finished 2-for-4 at the plate with four runs batted in. Grant<\/st2:GivenName> Balfour<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> improved to 5-2 with a scoreless ninth inning on the mound. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Michael<\/st2:GivenName> Young<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> homered and drove in a pair of runs for the Rangers, who were +150 underdogs. Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Grilli<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered the winning run and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 68-54 SU
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 67-55 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 4-6
Before playing NY Yankees are 6-4
After playing Tampa Bay are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 7-3
Before playing Toronto are 6-4
After playing Texas are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Texas is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
Texas is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Texas
Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at NY Yankees, Tuesday, August 25
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay at Toronto<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, August 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Texas Rangers and the Tampa Bay Rays will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Tropicana Field. The Rangers will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Scott Feldman in this game. Feldman has a 12-4 record and a 3.65 ERA this season. Starting this game … Continue reading Rangers-Rays Baseball Betting<\/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-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","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=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}