Baltimore Orioles at Tampa Bay Rays Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 49-49 Tampa Bay Rays play host to the 46-49 Baltimore Orioles tonight in MLB action on the turf of Tropicana Field, July 25, 2015. The first pitch is scheduled for 6:10PM ET.
Betting Odds
Moneyline: Orioles -103/Rays -107
O/U Total: 7
Pitching Matchup
Miguel Gonzalez (R) W/L 8-6 WHIP 1.27 ERA 4.21
Erasmo Ramirez (R) W/L 8-3 WHIP 1.10 ERA 3.54
Tampa Bay was a 3-1 winner over Baltimore on Friday. They are 1-0 on their homestand and 6-4 in their past 10 games. The Orioles have lost 4-straight games, are 2-5 on their road trip and 2-7 in their last 7 games.
These two teams have already played each other several times this year and the Rays have a 5-3 advantage in the last 8 contests between these two AL East foes.
Gonzalez was a 9-3 winner at Detroit in his start. He went 5 innings and allowed 2 runs. He has 6 Q starts on the year.
Ramirez received a no decision in his last outing, a 3-2 win at Toronto. He went 4.2 innings and surrendered 1 run. He has only 4 Q starts on the season as he has pitched several games in relief.
No Baltimore hitters have more than 8 ABs vs. Ramirez. C Matt Wieters is 1-5 (.200) with a solo HR while IF Ryan Flaherty is 2-5 (.400). The 8 other hitters to have faced the right-hander before haven’t had a clue on how to deal with him. They are a combined 2-40 (.050) with 1 HR and 1 RBI. No one has stolen a base off of Ramirez.
Rays’ OF Stephen Souza is 2-8 (.250) against Gonzalez with a solo HR while 2B Logan Forsythe is 3-9 (.333). 3B Evan Longoria is 7-30 (.233) against the right-hander with a solo HR. The 9 other hitters who have faced Gonzalez before are a combined 14-72 (.194) with 0 HRs, 3 RBIs and 0 stolen bases.
Baltimore at Tampa Bay Betting Trends
The Orioles are 1-4 straight up in their last 5 games overall.
Baltimore is 1-4 straight up in their last 5 road games.
The game total has gone under in 7 of Baltimore’s last 8 games against Tampa Bay.
The Rays are 7-15 straight up in their last 22 games overall.
Tampa Bay is 4-1 straight up in their last 5 home games.
Injury Report
BALTIMORE ORIOLES
Jason Garcia P 60-Day Disabled List
Steve Pearce OF 15-Day Disabled List
TAMPA BAY RAYS
Jeff Beliveau P 60-Day Disabled List
Asdrubal Cabrera 15-Day Disabled List
Alex Cobb P 60-Day Disabled List
Desmond Jennings 60-Day Disabled List
Burch Smith P 60-Day Disabled List
Drew Smyly P 60-Day Disabled List
Consensus Betting (ATS)
Baltimore: 46%
Tampa Bay: 54%
Free MLB Pick
Baltimore starter Miguel Gonzalez has solid batter vs. pitcher stats against the Rays current roster holding them to a .218 batting average in 132 plate appearances. He has faced them three times this season allowing two runs on 10 hits over 21 1/3 innings. Tampa Bay starter Erasmo Ramirez comes into this game ultra-sharp keeping the opposition to one or less runs in six straight starts. He has one outing against the Orioles this season and it was an impressive seven scoreless innings allowing three hits, striking out 7 and walking one.
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