{"id":15006,"date":"2011-04-19T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15006"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:39:03","slug":"al-picks-chicago-white-sox-at-tampa-bay-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/al-picks-chicago-white-sox-at-tampa-bay-rays-15006\/","title":{"rendered":"AL Picks: Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox (7-9) AT Tampa Bay Rays (7-9)<\/strong>
\nApril 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -115, TAM -105<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -105, TAMP -102<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 8<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 CWS- John Danks, TAM- James Shields<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Danks will take the mound for the White Sox tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many casual baseball fans find themselves asking the same question, “Who is Sam Fuld?” <\/em> The Rays’ leading hitter has a .396 average and hit 4 for 4 with a double and a run scored when the Rays beat the White Sox 5-0.\u00a0 The Rays are 6-1 after a 1-8 start, and when Evan Longoria returns, he’ll return to a team that is productive even without his big bat.<\/p>\n

Over the last 7 games, the Rays have averaged 5.6 runs and Fuld is hitting over .500 for that stretch (16 for 31).\u00a0 The Rays were without slugger DH Johnny Damon on Monday.\u00a0 He sat with a bruised finger and is expected to play later in the week.\u00a0 The Rays were also without their centerfielder B.J. Upton and starting first baseman Dan Johnson.\u00a0 Upton was merely getting rest, but Johnson has a sore left wrist.<\/p>\n

Monday, Tampa Bay’s SP David Price gave up only 4 hits in 8 innings and Rays hitters Felippe Lopez and Ben Zobrist both hit home runs.\u00a0 He also recorded 11 Ks.\u00a0 Price’s PECOTA projection for the year is for a 12-8 record with a 3.46 ERA.\u00a0 Last year Price was 19-6 with a 2.72 ERA.<\/p>\n

The White Sox are frustrated, but Ozzie Guillen has taken a patient approach to the situation.\u00a0 \u201cWe know we\u2019re going to hit,\u201d manager Ozzie Guillen said. \u201cI don\u2019t worry about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rays’ pitcher James Sheilds has not pitched well.\u00a0 Over his last 9 starts he has recorded an 0-5 record and has an ERA of 6.19.\u00a0 Shields had a strong second start after struggling in his opener.\u00a0 Against the Twins, he gave up only 2 runs and 9 hits in 7 innings and it was enough for a 4-3 victory for the Rays. In his 16 starts against the Red Sox, Shields is 5-9 with a 5.17 ERA in 16 starts.\u00a0 Alexei Ramirez is a career 6 of 15 against Shields while Mark Teahen is hitting .385 against Shields with 2 homers, in 26 ABs.\u00a0 James Shields PECOTA projections predict a 13-10 record with a 4.02 ERA.<\/p>\n

The White Sox will send John Danks to the mound.\u00a0 Danks is 0-1 with a 3.15 ERA.\u00a0 He should be 2-1, but the White Sox’ bullpen blew both saves.\u00a0 Ozzie Guillen already admitted earlier this season that “We don’t have a closer,” and he was certainly right.\u00a0 Wednesday night, Danks allowed only 1 run and 5 hits in eight innings, and somehow the Sox still went on to lose 7-4 in 10 innings.\u00a0 John Danks is 4-1 at Tropicana Field and has a 2.25 ERA in his last four games there.
\nDanks’ PECOTA projections are for a 11-9 season with a 4.01 ERA.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 6 of the White Sox’ last 9 games and they are 0-5 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 6 on the road and the White Sox are 7-3 SU in their last 10 on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 5 against Tampa Bay and the White Sox are 4-2 SU in their last 6 against the Rays.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 17 of the last 24 games on the road against the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in all 5 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games and they are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games.\u00a0 They are 4-10 SU in their last 14 at home and 4-1 SU in their last 5 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in all 5 of their last 5 home games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 5 games against the White Sox.\u00a0 Tampa Bay is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games against the Chicago White Sox and the total has gone UNDER in 17 of the last 24 home games against the Sox.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s game should be an interesting matchup between two good pitchers against two relatively hot teams.\u00a0 The potential for a low scoring game is there, and the UNDER seems like an interesting proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox (7-9) AT Tampa Bay Rays (7-9) April 19, 2011 at 6:40 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -115, TAM -105 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -105, TAMP -102 Opening Total:\u00a0 8 Current Total:\u00a0 8 SP:\u00a0 CWS- John Danks, TAM- James Shields Many casual baseball fans find themselves asking the same question, “Who is Sam Fuld?” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[171,150],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15007,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions\/15007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}