Cleveland Guardians (84-63) vs Tampa Bay Rays (72-75)
Game Info: Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 1:40 pm (Progressive Field)
The Line: Betting Odds: Cleveland Guardians -132 / Tampa Bay Rays +115 — Over/Under:
The Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Guardians meet Sunday in MLB action from Progressive Field. Here’s a Tampa Bay Rays vs Cleveland Guardians prediction. This will be the final installment in a four-game series. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best Rays vs Guardians pick. We will examine:
The Tampa Bay Rays recent form and player performance
The Cleveland Guardians recent form and player performance
Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Tampa Bay Rays
Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Cleveland Guardians
Recent betting trends in games played between the Rays and Guardians
A summary that ties it all together and produces a favorable betting outcome for the Rays vs Guardians game
Tampa Bay Rays Betting Preview
The Rays took on the Philadelphia Phillies in their last set. Tampa Bay lost all three of those games 2-1, 9-4 and 3-2. After two wins 5-2 and 3-1 over the Guardians, in the Saturday game three the Rays couldn’t score outside of the eighth inning in a 6-1 loss.
In the starter slot Sunday the Rays will send out Taj Bradley. This year Bradley is 6-10 with a 4.40 ERA in 22 starts. In his career over 45 games (43 starts) Bradley is 11-18 with a 4.95 ERA.
Cleveland Guardians Betting Preview
Over on the Guardians’ side, they played the Chicago White Sox in their last series. Cleveland was able to notch a sweep in that set 5-3, 5-0 and 6-4. On Saturday the Guardians scored three runs in the sixth inning on the way to eight team hits.
As starter on Sunday it’ll be Ben Lively. This season Lively is 11-9 with a 4.01 ERA in 26 starts. Lively is 19-26 with a 4.63 ERA in 71 career games (58 starts).
Total Runs Facts
- Each of the Guardians’ last six games as favorites against the Rays have gone UNDER the total runs line.
- Fourteen of the Rays’ last 16 road games against American League opponents have gone UNDER the total runs line.
- The ‘Inning 1 UNDER 0.5 runs’ market has hit in each of the Rays’ last three day games at Progressive Field.
Cleveland Guardians Player Prop Facts
- Lane Thomas has recorded at least one RBI in five of the Guardians’ last six games against AL opponents.
- Jose Ramirez has scored at least one run in 10 of the Guardians’ last 11 games against AL East opponents at Progressive Field.
- Steven Kwan has hit a home run in two of his last three home appearances against AL East opponents that held a losing record.
- Jose Ramirez has recorded at least one hit in each of the Guardians’ last 11 games as favorites against AL East opponents.
- Jose Ramirez has recorded at least one total base in each of the Guardians’ last 11 games as favorites against AL East opponents.
- Steven Kwan has recorded at least one Single in each of his last six appearances with the Guardians as favorites against AL opponents.
- Lane Thomas has recorded at least one Double in three of the Guardians’ last four games as home favorites against AL East opponents.
Tampa Bay Rays Player Prop Facts
- Yandy Diaz has recorded at least one hit in each of his last six road appearances against opponents that held a winning record.
- Yandy Diaz has recorded at least one total base in each of his last six appearances with the Rays as road underdogs.
- Jose Siri has hit a home run in two of his last three appearances in day games against AL Central teams that held a winning record.
- Yandy Diaz has recorded at least one Single in each of his last six appearances.
- Yandy Diaz has recorded a Double in three of his last four appearances against the Guardians after playing the previous day.
- Yandy Diaz has recorded at least one RBI in three of the Rays’ last four day games against AL Central opponents that held a winning record.
- Jose Siri has scored a run in four of the Rays’ last five road games against the Guardians.
Tampa Bay Rays vs Cleveland Guardians Prediction
I’ll probably lean Rays here. Also probably not touching it. Bradley hasn’t been at his best lately. He’s 0-1 over his last pair with 13.0 innings and seven earned runs. Ditto for Lively. In his last three outings Lively is 0-1 with 10 earned runs in 10.1 frames total.
On Saturday the Rays had a pretty rough night overall. Junior Caminero (three hits; RBI) was just about the only thing happening on offense. Tampa needs some better pitching on the back end Sunday as well. I’m staying away from this one.