MLB Baseball
2012-06-07 - Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees
A Sports Betting Pick by Addicted
Baseball : North America : MLB
Thursday, June 7th, 2012, 7:05PM US
(12:05AM GMT)
PREVIEW
The Yankees have given the Tampa Bay Rays a proper thrashing over the first 2 games, winning 7-0 and then 4-1 last night, with the Rays only scoring in the final innings. That's 17 innings where they could not even put up a run! Tonight, they face CC Sabathia, who has already beaten them this term.
The Yankees will be confident of the sweep with CC Sabathia on the mound, as he checks in with a 7-2 record and a 3.68ERA. Sabathia has bounced back from those 2 back to back losses but winning his last 2 starts, the last one a dominant display over Detroit.
Sabathia has already beaten the Rays this term. Co-incidentally, he was opposing David Price that day too, but he allowed just 2 runs and the Yankees won 5-3. Price did not fare so well.
The Rays have David Price going for them. He southpaw pitcher is 7-3 with a 2.44ERA, but don't be fooled as he does struggle. When he faced the Yankees last month, he gave up 5 runs on 11 hits over 7 innings and took the loss, with Sabathia getting the win for the Yankees. On the road, Price has an ERA of 4.00 with the Rays going 3-3. That tells us this team will struggle.
The Rays are not doing well against southpaw pitchers, and have gone cold with their bats as it is, scoring just 1 run over 18 innings. Breaking that trend against Sabathia in New York is a tall order. On the other side, the Yankees have done very well against southpaws, scoring closer to 6 a game. They should have their way with Price and the Rays bullpen.
BETTING VERDICT
I'm going to take the Yankees to get the sweep.
The Pick :
New York Yankees
Gooner’s Statistical Value Bet
Take the New York Yankees -1.5 @ 2.60 (Pinnacle)
