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06/15/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - While Rays young gun David Price targets his 10th win of the season, Atlanta starter Kenshin Kawakami has yet to taste victory in 2010.
Both pitchers will collide Tuesday night at Turner Field, where the Braves will host Tampa Bay for three straight interleague games. Atlanta is 13-5 all- time against the Rays, including a 4-2 record as the host.
The Rays hope Price can get a six-game road trip started in style when he makes his 13th start. Price has won two straight and six of his last seven starts, and is tied for the American League lead with nine wins. He got more than enough run support in his last appearance, a 10-1 pounding of Toronto last Wednesday at Tropicana Field.
Price limited the Blue Jays to a run on four hits and a season-high five walks over six innings. The left-hander and former No. 1 overall pick lowered his earned run average to 2.23 and pushed his 2010 mark to 9-2 in 12 trips to the hill. He has been just as sharp away from home, going 5-1 in six road starts, and will face the Braves for the first time.
Tampa Bay just went 3-3 on a six-game homestand and lost three of the last four contests on the residency, including Sunday's 6-1 loss to the in-state rival Florida Marlins at the Trop. Jeff Niemann was roughed up in six innings, as he surrendered five runs and nine hits to suffer his first setback of the season (6-1).
"They were swinging the bats well and didn't miss any mistakes," Niemann said of the Marlins.
Sean Rodriguez had three hits and Ben Zobrist recorded a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning for the Rays, who are tied with the New York Yankees atop the American League East standings. The Rays own a sizzling 22-8 away record and will visit the Marlins in south Florida for three games over the weekend.
Atlanta will make it tough for the Rays to keep their strong road record intact, as it puts a nine-game home winning streak on the line Tuesday. It will play 15 of the next 18 games in Dixie, where it is 19-6 this season.
The NL East-leading Braves went 6-5 on an 11-game road trip and closed out the swing by taking the last two meetings of a three-game series in Minnesota. In Sunday's 7-3 victory in the series finale at Target Field, Kris Medlen fired a career-best eight innings of three-run ball and struck out five to improve to 4-1 this season. Jonny Venters threw a scoreless ninth to preserve the win.
Troy Glaus went 4-for-5 with two home runs and three RBI, while Martin Prado had three hits, including a solo home run, and Eric Hinske finished with a pair of doubles and an RBI in the win.
"It ends us on a winning road trip, which was really a tough one," said Braves manager Bobby Cox on the club's 6-5 swing. "We could have won two more, but could have lost two more as well. We think we've played great baseball on the entire trip."
Cox can only hope another change of scenery will be key for Kawakami, who brings his 0-8 mark and 4.48 ERA in 12 starts to the mound this evening. Kawakami was excellent in his most start last Wednesday, but did not factor into the decision of a 2-1 loss at Arizona. He kept the Diamondbacks scoreless over six innings and scattered four hits with a season-high eight strikeouts. The righty gave up five runs in 6 1/3 innings the previous time out in a loss at Los Angeles on June 4.
Kawakami is 0-1 with a 3.68 ERA in four home starts this season and has never faced Tampa Bay in his career.
The Braves, who are 1 1/2 games ahead of the New York Mets in the division, own a 112-102 mark against the American League. Tampa Bay is 102-118 in interleague play.
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Brooklyn, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Debris, or not debris? That is the question
NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin has been asking after a late-race caution for debris
possibly cost him a victory in Sunday's race at Michigan International
Speedway.
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<< New Zealand earns dramatic draw vs. Slovakia
Rustenburg, South Africa (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Winston Reid scored three minutes
into stoppage time and New Zealand earned a dramatic 1-1 draw against Slovakia
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<< United signs Montenegrin midfielder Boskovic as a DP
Washington, D.C. (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - D.C. United signed Montenegrin midfielder
Branko Boskovic as a Designated Player, the Major League Soccer club announced
late Monday.
"We are excited to have concluded a deal to bring Branko to D.C.
<< Dementieva to skip Wimbledon
Monte Carlo, Monaco (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Elena Dementieva has withdrawn from
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Open.
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Athletics continue road trip against Cubs >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Oakland Athletics are still searching for a win on
their current road trip, as they begin a three-game series against the Chicago
Cubs this evening from historic Wrigley Field.
Oakland was swept in three games at San F
Komisarek would have been good choice, too >>
Toronto, Canada (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Fans of the Maple Leafs are a long-suffering
sort.
The Leafs now have the longest Cup-less streak in the NHL, having not won since
May 1967. The Chicago Blackhawks heaved the weight of going Cup-less since
Leafs' captain Phaneuf relishes new role >>
Toronto, Canada (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For the first time in two seasons, the
Toronto Maple Leafs have a captain and his name is Dion Phaneuf.
The former Calgary Flames defenseman was bestowed the captaincy of the historic
franchise at a media
Reeling Pirates return home to take on White Sox >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brad Lincoln makes his home debut when the Pittsburgh
Pirates and Chicago White Sox open a three-game interleague set this evening
at PNC Park.
Lincoln, Pittsburgh's top pitching prospect, made his big league debut
Wednes
MySportsbook.com and Kentucky Derby Offer Bonuses
The 2008 Kentucky Derby has announced a $1-million bonus for this weekend’s 134th ‘Run for the Roses’ and MySportsbook.com is doing the same.
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According to MySportsbook.com, the favorites for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky are: Curlin (+250); Street Sense (+500); Scat Daddy (+700); Circular Quay (+750); and Nobiz Like Shobiz (+800).
Derby organizers announced this week that there will be a $1-million bonus at the 2007 Kentucky Derby odds if the first-place horse wins by more than 6 1/2 lengths – the margin of Barbaro's victory last year. The bonus would be divided Saturday among the winning trainer, jockey, owner and a charity, with each receiving 25 percent. The designated charity is the Barbaro Memorial Fund.
''It's certainly creative, it's certainly fun and it has something for the horsemen, which we always want to embrace,'' Churchill Downs president and chief executive Robert Evans said at a news conference. ''What's really cool is it will force us to remember Barbaro.''
Meanwhile, the Derby favorite – Curlin – is going against the odds this year. It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.
Arkansas Derby winner Curlin – unbeaten in three career races – tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby.
''We're not running against history,'' trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. ''We're running against who they load up.''
Six other horses have run in the Derby without benefit of 2-year-old races and with three or fewer starts. The best any of them managed was a sixth-place finish by Showing Up last year.
Asmussen dismissed suggestions that Curlin's lack of racing experience could keep him from the winner's circle.
”He exudes confidence and he's got a great presence about him,'' the trainer said. ''I feel great about the position we're in. He's not worried about anything, why should you be?''
The Kentucky Derby is at 4:04 p.m., ET Saturday.
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MySportsbook.com Favors Fighting Irish to win College Football betting odds
According to odds makers at MySportsbook.com, on January 8, the Fighting Irish faithful may be toasting their 14th national title in Arizona – Notre Dame’s first national championship in close to 20 years.
Although MySportsbook.com has listed Notre Dame as the 5-1 favorite to win thecollege football College Football betting, fans in Columbus do not need to cancel their tickets to Glendale just yet. The Ohio State Buckeyes, listed right behind the Irish at 7-1, are also heavy favorites to win college football’s most coveted prize, while West Virginia, USC and the 2007 National Champion Texas Longhorns - all listed at 8-1 – are strong contenders as well.
MySportsbook.com has also posted gambling odds on the conference championships for the ACC, Big 12 and SEC. In the ACC – it could be anyone’s title, particularly for the two schools from the Sunshine State. Florida State and Miami, both listed at 2-1, are favored to win the ACC Championship Game odds, with the ‘Noles hoping to finish in the nation’s top 10 for the first time in five years, and the ‘Canes looking to avenge their 10-7 loss against FSU in last year’s ACC Championship betting.
Moving west to the Big 12, MySportsbook.com has betting lines listing Texas as 7-5 favorites to repeat as conference champions, even though the Longhorns lost their national championship-winning quarterback Vince Young to the NFL. In the south, the Auburn Tigers – led by Heisman-hopeful senior running back Kenny Irons – have been given the best odds to win the SEC Championship odds at 5-2.
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