{"id":52003,"date":"2012-06-13T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=52003"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:38:30","slug":"line-betting-prediction-mets-vs-rays-handicapping-preview-13612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/mlb-baseball\/line-betting-prediction-mets-vs-rays-handicapping-preview-13612\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Mets vs. Tampa Bay Rays MLB Free Picks &#038; Gambling Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Baseball Betting: Mets vs Rays<\/h2>\n<p>The New york Mets are doing better than anyone could have expected this season, leaving many to wonder how much longer they can keep it up.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><strong>New York Mets (32-29) vs Tampa Bay Rays (35-25)<br \/>\nWednesday June 13<br \/>\nTropicana Field &#8211; Tampa, FL<br \/>\n7:10PM<br \/>\nMoneyline: \u00a0Tampa -160, New York +145<br \/>\nO\/U: \u00a07.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PITCHING MATCHUP<\/strong>: Mets RH R.A. Dickey (9-1, 2.44 ERA) vs. Rays LH David Price (8-3, 2.40 ERA)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/capperspicks.sportsdirectinc.com\/baseball\/mlb-matchups.aspx?page=\/data\/MLB\/matchups\/g4_summary_20.html\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matchup<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/capperspicks.sportsdirectinc.com\/baseball\/mlb-preview.aspx?page=\/data\/MLB\/matchups\/g4_preview_20.html\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facing the first place Rays is not going to be an easy task. \u00a0The Mets are scuffling having won only 1 of their last 7 heading into the series opener. \u00a0They need to get things going to stay in touch with a Washington squad showing no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>Johan Santana may get the headlines but it is R.A Dickey who has been propelling the Mets to their unexpected start. \u00a0With 9 wins and a sterling ERA the case could be made that he has been the best pitcher in the National League this season. \u00a0Knucklers can be hard to predict though and his numbers against Tampa for his career are atrocious (ERA of 8.35). \u00a0Good value but still a long shot here.\u00a0[dfads params=&#8217;groups=10&amp;limit=1&amp;return_javascript=0&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tampa Bay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Rays entered Tuesday tied for first place in the tough AL East. \u00a0They have won four in a row heading into last night\u2019s action and were looking to add to that in the series opener against New York with a 2-1 early lead. \u00a0Good thing the pitching has been strong because without Ben Zobrist, Evan Longoria and now Luke Scott this team is really lacking for offensive punch.<\/p>\n<p>On the mound starter David Price is leading an impressive group of hurlers. \u00a0He is on pace for his best season in the Majors and has given up more than 3 earned runs in a start just once all season long. \u00a0How is that for quality? \u00a0He has been absolutely lights out at home with an ERA under 1 and a BAA of .177. \u00a0The Mets lineup is hardly a murderous bunch so I expect that dominance to continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>O\/U Pick: \u00a0Under<br \/>\nScore Prediction: \u00a0Tampa 5 &#8211; New York 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>View The MLB Cappers Leaderboard For 2011 \u00a0&#8211; Picks Packages for 2012 On Sale! \u2014\u2013&gt;<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball Betting: Mets vs Rays The New york Mets are doing better than anyone could have expected this season, leaving many to wonder how much longer they can keep it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":22573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[108,3882,111,112,502,30021,658,55235,55236,14228,27450,3775,691,1385,6875,55234,1028,3046,1213],"class_list":["post-52003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-baseball-handicapping","tag-baseball-lines","tag-baseball-picks","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-gambling-lines","tag-interleague","tag-mets","tag-mets-rays","tag-mets-rays-gambling","tag-mlb-baseball-previews","tag-mlb-free-pick","tag-mlb-odds","tag-mlb-predictions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-mets-vs-tampa-bay-rays","tag-predictions","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107961,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52003\/revisions\/107961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}