The Mets blew up Chris Rusin for a relatively easy winner with the Saturday comp. Here’s Sunday’s free play.
RAYS (Odorizzi) @ ATHLETICS (Graveman)
Take: RAYS -120
Contending Tampa Bay tries to finish off a weekend sweep at Oakland. The Rays might be just one game above .500, but they’re only 1.5 games out of the playoffs as of right now, so this team is definitely in the hunt.
Jake Odorizzi should own an edge over Kendall Graveman here. If this gets decided late, Tampa Bay clearly owns an edge over the unreliable Oakland bullpen, which blew yet another save on Saturday night. Considering that Graveman has not been getting past six innings in nearly all of his recent starts, one has to think there’s a good chance that A’s relief corps gets a multiple innings assignment here, and that’s certainly not a good thing.
The Rays aren’t going to scare anyone with that offense. But this is a team that has managed to hang tough all season and Odorizzi has been a solid asset. He has allowed three or fewer runs in all but four of his starts this year. That’s a key here as odds are Odorizzi should deliver a quality start yet again. If that’s the case again this afternoon, I’m going to like Tampa Bay’s chances of getting the brooms out and dusting off the A’s yet again. The price is not prohibitive, so I’ll side with the Rays today.
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