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00:04 DRS, I find Tampa Bay an incredibly fascinating team,
00:08 right?
00:08 A historic start to this Major League Baseball season,
00:11 baseball's best up until the middle of June,
00:14 and then struggled in July.
00:16 The Rays were just 8 and 16 in that month.
00:19 They bounced back by going 17 and 8 in the month of August,
00:23 continuing good play here early on in September.
00:27 Tyler Glass now gets the start at the trough tonight
00:30 against the Red Sox.
00:31 They're nearly $1.70 favorite on that money line.
00:35 DRS, how do you view the Rays here
00:37 in the home stretch of this Major League Baseball season?
00:40 Yeah, the Rays are one of those teams that many people have
00:42 written off.
00:42 And McClanahan's going to be down.
00:44 You lose one of your top superstar young players
00:46 to off the field issues, not even injuries on the field.
00:49 But yet, they're still playing quality baseball at this point.
00:51 If we're looking at this game overall,
00:53 if you saw that graphic flash up, the total is listed at 8.
00:55 And this might be a game that we're taking a look
00:58 towards the under, reason being, if we take a look at the last 6
01:00 and 1/2 weeks or so in Major League Baseball with pitchers
01:03 with a minimum of 20 innings pitched,
01:06 there's 25 of them on the card today.
01:08 Take a look at this.
01:09 Glass now and Pavetta, both of those guys in the top four.
01:12 Pavetta with an XFIP number of 3.14.
01:14 Glass now with a 3.22.
01:17 So runs might be a little bit harder
01:19 to come by when you factor this game in.
01:21 Also, we're not playing in Fenway, one of the more
01:23 hitter-friendly ballparks in America.
01:25 You're playing down at the drop, which
01:26 is one of the more pitcher-friendly ballparks
01:28 overall.
01:28 The pedigree, you would say, probably
01:30 is going to be on the side of the Tampa Bay Rays.
01:32 But don't count out the Red Sox, still trying to fight
01:34 for wild card contention.
01:35 It's a tough game overall.
01:36 It's a heavy favorite for Tampa.
01:38 I don't know if I want to lay that price, but the 8 number
01:41 is intriguing to me.
01:42 It takes 9 to beat me on an under.
01:44 I'll lean on the under based on those two pitchers'
01:46 performances over the past six weeks or so.
01:49 (upbeat music)
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