Dirty's Online Gambling Headlines: Wounded Blue Jays Stumble in to Tampa Bay Rays

Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Look to get on Track

Just when it looked like the Toronto Blue Jays were getting back in the American League playoff race, they got swept by the defending champion Chicago Cubs, leaving them at 59-65 and 14.81 betting units in the red. Toronto will try to get back on track with a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays (60-65, –7.91 units), starting Tuesday night at Tropicana Field. First pitch is at 7:10 PM ET on Sportsnet.

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At least the Jays may have found a keeper in Chris Rowley (3.72 FIP in 10.1 innings), the first official West Point graduate ever to make the majors. Rowley pitched very well in his August 12 MLB debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates, then followed up with five strong innings in Thursday’s 5-3 win over the Rays (–166 away).

Chris Archer (3.20 FIP) pitched for Tampa in that game and had a quality start with 10 strikeouts, but the Rays’ bullpen coughed it up, dropping Archer’s team record to 14-12 for a loss of 1.91 units. It was the 11th “no decision” for Archer this year; the Rays and their middling relief corps (4.10 FIP, No. 13 in the majors) went 6-5 in those games.

Team	record	money	vs LHP	vs RHP	Fave	Dog	O/U	Diff
Toronto	59-65	-$999.00	11-19	48-46	40-37	19-28	58-60-6	-0.65
Tampa Bay	61-65	-$436.00	15-21	46-44	33-33	28-32	62-61-3	-0.13

Chris Rowley (1-0) ERA: 2.61

event date	Opponent	Result	score	OU Result	ip	money
Aug 17, 2017	TB	W	5-3	U	5	$156.00
Aug 12, 2017	PIT	W	7-2	U	5.1	$113.00

C Archer (8-7) ERA: 3.90

event date	Opponent	Result	score	OU Result	ip	money
Aug 17, 2017	TOR	L	3-5	U	7	-$100.00
Aug 12, 2017	CLE	L	0-3	U	5.1	-$100.00
Aug 6, 2017	MIL	W	2-1	U	6	$60.00

Toronto's relievers have pitched 10.2 innings in the last 3 games.
Tampa Bay's relievers have pitched 9.1 innings in the last 3 games.

Toronto Blue Jays - Chris Rowley

Date	score	Winner	ip	hits	Runs	Earned Runs	walks	strikeouts	Decision
Aug 17, 2017	5-3	TOR	5	4	2	2	5	3	No Decision

Tampa Bay Rays - C Archer

Date	score	Winner	ip	hits	Runs	Earned Runs	walks	strikeouts	Decision
Aug 17, 2017	5-3	TOR	7	5	3	3	0	10	No Decision
May 5, 2017	8-4	TOR	6	4	3	3	1	11	No Decision
Apr 30, 2017	3-1	TOR	7.1	4	1	1	2	5	No Decision
Apr 8, 2017	3-2	TB	7.2	5	2	2	3	8	No Decision
Sep 4, 2016	5-3	TOR	6.1	5	2	2	1	9	No Decision

Title	Stat	Rank	Stat	Rank
Away Team Overall Scoring vs Home Team Overall Defense	4.27	27	4.40	10
Away Team Away Scoring vs Home Team Home Defense	4.41	19	4.05	5
Home Team Overall Scoring vs Away Team Overall Defense	4.27	26	4.92	21
Home Team Home Scoring vs Away Team Road Defense	4.22	24	5.07	21

Date	Away	away score	Home	home score	line	O/U	Away Pitcher	Home Pitcher	Away Hits	Home Hits	Away Walks	Home Walks	Away Strikeouts	Home Strikeouts
Aug 17, 2017	TB	3	TOR	5	156	9	U	Chris Archer (R)	Chris Rowley (R)	11	6	7	1	6	10
Aug 16, 2017	TB	2	TOR	3	-128	8.5	U	Jake Faria (R)	Marcus Stroman (R)	7	7	4	2	10	6
Aug 15, 2017	TB	6	TOR	4	-109	9.5	O	Blake Snell (L)	Marco Estrada (R)	13	8	5	1	5	6
Aug 14, 2017	TB	1	TOR	2	-105	10	U	Jake Odorizzi (R)	Nick Tepesch (R)	4	5	4	4	4	4
Jun 14, 2017	TB	6	TOR	7	-141	8.5	O	Jake Odorizzi (R)	Francisco Liriano (L)	8	10	3	4	11	7
Jun 13, 2017	TB	8	TOR	1	-147	8.5	O	Jake Faria (R)	Marco Estrada (R)	16	8	2	2	9	10
May 7, 2017	TOR	2	TB	1	-125	8	U	Joe Biagini (R)	Alex Cobb (R)	4	3	2	2	5	11
May 6, 2017	TOR	1	TB	6	-137	7.5	U	Marco Estrada (R)	Jake Odorizzi (R)	4	6	0	4	7	10
May 5, 2017	TOR	8	TB	4	-147	7.5	O	Francisco Liriano (L)	Chris Archer (R)	9	7	3	5	13	12
Apr 30, 2017	TB	1	TOR	3	-102	7.5	U	Chris Archer (R)	Aaron Sanchez (R)	4	7	5	3	10	6

Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games
Toronto is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Toronto's last 11 games
Toronto is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Toronto is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Toronto's last 10 games on the road
Toronto is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay
Toronto is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
Toronto is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Rays
Tampa Bay is 5-11 ATS in its last 16 games
Tampa Bay is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 15 of Tampa Bay's last 18 games
Tampa Bay is 4-13 ATS in its last 17 games at home
Tampa Bay is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Tampa Bay's last 7 games at home
Tampa Bay is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Toronto
Tampa Bay is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Toronto
Tampa Bay is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Toronto

Toronto Blue Jays

	record	Home	Away	Fave	Dog	O/U	vs LHP	vs RHP
Overall	59-65	34-29	25-36	40-35	20-30	58-60-6	11-19	48-46
Last 10	5-5	5-2	0-3	3-2	2-3	3-7	0-2	5-3
vs Div	22-29	13-16	9-13	12-16	11-13	21-29-1	6-12	16-17
vs AL	50-54	29-24	21-30	33-30	18-24	47-52-5	11-17	39-37
vs NL	9-11	5-5	4-6	7-5	2-6	11-8-1	0-2	9-9

Tampa Bay Rays

	record	Home	Away	Fave	Dog	O/U	vs LHP	vs RHP
Overall	61-65	32-32	29-33	33-31	30-33	62-61-3	15-21	46-44
Last 10	2-8	1-5	1-3	2-4	1-3	2-8	0-1	2-7
vs Div	24-30	14-11	10-19	8-10	18-19	28-25-1	7-13	17-17
vs AL	53-58	28-28	25-30	28-26	27-31	56-52-3	12-20	41-38
vs NL	8-7	4-4	4-3	5-5	3-2	6-9	3-1	5-6

Toronto Blue Jays

Date	Opponent	score	Result	line	Total	starter	ip	opposing starter	Location
Aug 20, 2017	CHC	5-6	L	164	9	M Estrada	6	K Hendricks	A
Aug 19, 2017	CHC	3-4	L	214	9.5	N Tepesch	3.2	J Quintana	A
Aug 18, 2017	CHC	4-7	L	168	9	J Happ	5	J Arrieta	A
Aug 17, 2017	TB	5-3	W	156	9	Chris Rowley	5	C Archer	H
Aug 16, 2017	TB	3-2	W	-128	8.5	M Stroman	6.1	Jacob Faria	H

Tampa Bay Rays

Date	Opponent	score	Result	line	Total	starter	ip	opposing starter	Location
Aug 20, 2017	SEA	3-0	W	-162	9.5	Blake Snell	7	Y Gallardo	H
Aug 19, 2017	SEA	6-7	L	-111	9.5	J Odorizzi	3.2	Ariel Miranda	H
Aug 18, 2017	SEA	1-7	L	-131	9	Austin Pruitt	7	E Ramirez	H
Aug 17, 2017	TOR	3-5	L	-166	9	C Archer	7	Chris Rowley	A
Aug 16, 2017	TOR	2-3	L	118	8.5	Jacob Faria	5.1	M Stroman	A