Tampa Bay Rays at Oakland Athletics Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 53-69 Oakland Athletics play host to the 60-61 Tampa Bay Rays tonight in MLB action on the grass of O.co Coliseum, August 21, 2015. The first pitch is scheduled for 10:05PM ET.
Betting Odds
Moneyline: Rays +101/Athletics -111
O/U Total: 7
Pitching Matchup
Drew Smyly (L) W/L 0-2 WHIP 1.06 ERA 4.35
Chris Bassitt (R) W/L 1-4 WHIP 1.01 ERA 2.60
Tampa Bay was a 1-0 winner at Houston last night behind P Chris Archer’s 1-hitter. They are 2-5 on their road trip. Oakland was a 5-2 winner over the Dodgers on Thursday. They are 2-0 on their homestand and 2-7 in their last 9 games.
The season series is tied at 2-2 and the A’s have a 6-4 lead in the last 10 encounters.
Smyly was a 5-3 loser at Texas in his last game. He gave up all 5 runs in 4 innings and has 2 Q starts in his 4 starts on the year.
Bassitt was a 4-3 loser at Baltimore in his last outing. He surrendered 3 runs in 8 innings for his 6th Q start in 8 starts on the season. He has not allowed more than 3 ERs in any of his starts in 2015.
This will be the Rays first look at Bassitt.
Oakland DH Billy Butler is 7-14 (.500) against Smyly with a solo HR while OF Coco Crisp is 3-6 (.500) with 3 RBIs. OFs Sam Fuld and Josh Reddick are both 1-3 (.333) against the young right-hander.
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Tampa Bay at Oakland Betting Trends
Tampa Bay is 2-5 straight up in their last 7 games overall.
The Rays are 4-9 straight up in their last 13 games against Oakland.
The game total has gone under in 8 of Tampa Bay’s last 12 games against Oakland.
The Athletics are 2-7 straight up in their last 9 games overall.
Oakland is 5-1 straight up in their last 6 games at home against the Rays.
Injury Report
TAMPA BAY RAYS
Jeff Beliveau P 60-Day Disabled List
Alex Cobb P 60-Day Disabled List
Jake McGee P 15-Day Disabled List
Burch Smith P 60-Day Disabled List
Steven Souza OF 15-Day Disabled List
OAKLAND ATHLETICS
Ike Davis 1B 15-Day Disabled List
Sean Doolittle P 60-Day Disabled List
Jesse Hahn P 15-Day Disabled List
Tyler Ladendorf 2B 60-Day Disabled List
Jarrod Parker P 15-Day Disabled List
Consensus Picks Moneyline
Tampa Bay: 45%
Oakland: 55%
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The Rays went 1-2 against the Astros in Houston as they failing to score over two runs in any of the games. They faced some top notch pitching in the series and it doesn’t look to get any easier for them tonight when they will have to take on the A’s Chris Bassitt for the first time. Bassit has strung together six quality starts and has yet to allow an opponent to score more than three runs in all of his eightt starts in 2015. Tampa Bay’s Drew Smyly had similar numbers in his first three starts this season but is coming off a rough performance where he got lit up for five runs in just four innings. Smyly also has a poor stats line against the Athletics whose active roster has hit .372 in 47 at bats.
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