{"id":16050,"date":"2011-06-10T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16050"},"modified":"2011-06-10T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T19:16:02","slug":"hellicksons-dominance-tampa-bay-travels-to-baltimore-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/hellicksons-dominance-tampa-bay-travels-to-baltimore-betting-preview-16050\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellickson’s Dominance: Tampa Bay Travels to Baltimore – Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Rays (33-29) AT Baltimore Orioles (29-31)<\/strong>
\nJune 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 TAM -145, BAL +125<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 TAM -125, BAL +104<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 8.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 8.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 TAM- Jeremy Hellickson; BAL- Jake Arrieta<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hellickson has dominated the Orioles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeremy Hellickson has really arrived.\u00a0 He’s looking to win his fourth consecutive start against the Orioles and the Rays have won 3 straight and 4 of 5 due to the strong pitching.\u00a0 Their collective 1.95 ERA over the last four wins featured a Hellickson win in which he held Seattle to 1 run and 3 hits over 7 1\/3rds innings of a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n

Mariners manager Eric Wedge expressed defeat on the topic.\u00a0 “We were never able to get anything going against this kid (Hellickson is 24)…He had a good fastball.\u00a0 He pitched, he located the ball and threw a good game.”<\/p>\n

Over his last seven starts, Hellickson is 6-1 with a 1.74 ERA.\u00a0 The Orioles have yet to score on Hellickson in the fourteen innings he pitched against them so far in 2011.\u00a0 He had a four hitter against the Orioles on May 13th and his record over the series is 3-0 with a 0.45 ERA.<\/p>\n

Hellickson spent years in the International League but he has been impressive since entering the bigs.\u00a0 He had a four game audition in which he recorded a 2.05 ERA in 26.1 IP.\u00a0 The Rays got rid of Matt Garza to clear the way for Hellickson, so hopes are high.\u00a0 Baseball Prospectus predicts a 9-6 record with a 3.55 ERA.<\/p>\n

Still, Hellickson will have his work cut out for him.\u00a0 The Orioles just swept the As and they have won 9 of 11 at home.<\/p>\n

The Orioles will send Jake Arrieta to the mound.\u00a0 He is 7-3 with a 4.93 ERA.\u00a0 He has received 7.14 runs support per nine innings.\u00a0 He’ll face hitters that have had success against the Orioles before in Matt Joyce and Evan Longoria who have hit 5 homers between them.<\/p>\n

Arrieta has a 93 mph fastball but has poor control over it and his off speed pitches are below average.\u00a0 His walks outnumbered his strikeouts early last season, and he barely finished with more strikeouts than walks for the year (52 to 48).\u00a0 He’s fared well against right handed batters, but lefties have torn him up, going for a .315 average.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 6 games.\u00a0 It has also gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 on the road.\u00a0 The Rays are 4-1 SU in their last 5 on the road and they are 4-2 SU in their last 6 against Baltimore.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 9 of their last 12 against Baltimore and the Rays are 10-3 SU in their last 13 on the road against the Orioles.<\/p>\n

Baltimore is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games and 9-2 SU in their last 11 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Baltimore’s last 12 games against Tampa Bay and they are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games against Tampa Bay.\u00a0 The Orioles are 3-10 SU in their last 13 games at home against the Rays.<\/p>\n

The Rays are favored because of Hellickson’s dominance and it would seem quite silly to bet on the Orioles when they haven’t scored on Hellickson in the last 14 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Rays (33-29) AT Baltimore Orioles (29-31) June 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 TAM -145, BAL +125 Current Line:\u00a0 TAM -125, BAL +104 Opening Total:\u00a0 8.5 Current Total:\u00a0 8.5 SP:\u00a0 TAM- Jeremy Hellickson; BAL- Jake Arrieta Jeremy Hellickson has really arrived.\u00a0 He’s looking to win his fourth consecutive start against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[172,150],"class_list":["post-16050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050","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=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16053,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions\/16053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}