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Texas Rangers vs. Tampa Bay Rays Game 1
2021-10-05

Odds: Tampa Bay -128, Texas +118, Total: 7

Ace southpaws take the mound Wednesday afternoon in game one of the Texas Rangers vs. Tampa Bay Rays divisional series. The Rangers’ Cliff Lee and Rays’Davie Price have been stellar in their postseason careers. Lee is 4-0 with a 1.56 ERA and Price carries a 1.59 ERA in five playoff relief appearances. Tampa Bay has won the past four meetings. Here is a complete breakdown of the pitching matchup:

CLIFF LEE

12-9, 3.18 ERA in 2010

Lee’s team is 15-13 (-5.1 Units) when Lee starts in 2010. The Under covered in 15 of these 28 starts.

6 GS, 3-2, 3.86 ERA, .225 Opp. BA at Tropicana Field in career

13 GS, 6-5, 2.87 ERA, .228 Opp. BA career vs. TB

5 GS, 4-0, 1.56 ERA, 0.82 WHIP in postseason career

DAVID PRICE

19-6, 2.72 ERA in 2010

Tampa Bay is 23-8 (+10.7 Units) when Price starts in 2010. The Under covered in 17 of these 31 starts (13 Over, 1 Push).

9-2, 1.96 ERA, .206 Opp. BA at Tropicana Field in 2010

4 GS, 0-2, 7.45 ERA, 1.66 WHIP career vs. TEX

5 G, 1-0, 1.59 ERA, 1.06 WHIP in postseason career

Both pitchers have had great seasons and are clutch post-season performers. The Rays have to be worried about Price’s 7.45 ERA and 1.66 WHIP in four career starts against the Rangers top-notch lineup.

This betting trend supports Tampa Bay bettors for Wednesday’s match-up:

Play On - Home teams with a money line of -100 to -150 (TAMPA BAY) - average offensive team (4.7 to 5.2 runs/game) against a good starter (ERA<=4.20) (AL), with a starting pitcher whose gives up 5.5 or less hits/start. (53-12 over the last 5 seasons.) (81.5%, +38.3 units. Rating = 5*).

While this trend sides with bettors that are backing the Under:

TAMPA BAY is 13-1 UNDER (+11.9 Units) after 3 straight games where the bullpen gave up no runs this season. The average score was TAMPA BAY 2.9, OPPONENT 2.7 - (Rating = 4*).

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The Vancouver Canucks finished the regular season with 49 wins and 28 losses. For 103 points.. They also lead the Western Conference in goals with 272. Chicago had a record of 52- 22 good for 112 points. They faced each other four times during the season. They split it evenly 2 wins for each. Each team also won one game on the road.

Vancouver defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 in Los Angeles in game six to advance to the semi final round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. One important factor that aided Vancouver was the fact that the Kings were 0-5 in the power play during game 6 thanks to the penalty killing of the Canucks.

Vancouver and Chicago met in the playoffs last year. The Black Hawks knocked off the Canucks four games to two winning the conference title for the first time since 1995. This is going to be a good match up this year. These are the matchups that NHL bettors dream about. The savvy NHL bettor will find the best situations to bet on in NHL hockey.

Henrik and Daniel Sedin the talented twins will lead Vancouver on the ice with their outstanding abilities to both score and pass. Henrik Sedin finished the regular season with 112 points. Daniel had 85 points but only played in 63 games because of a broken foot. Chicago will need to control the Sedin brothers during the games if they want to win and advance to the finals for the Stanley Cup. Henrick lead the NHL in scoring this season and is a finalist for the Hart Trophy, given to the leagues MVP. During the playoffs so far Daniel had four goals and six assists. Henrik scored one goal and seven assists. Mikael Samuelsson had seven goals and four assists. Samuelsson also led the NHL in goals during the first round of the playoffs. Both he and Daniel Sedin made double-digit points. Henrick lead in assists and scored only one goal.

The Chicago Black Hawks are a favorite this year and have the home ice advantage. As far as talent and superstars goes Chicago has Patrick Kane. He led the team in scoring during the regular season. He had 30 goals and 58 assists. Other top producers for the Black Hawks are Duncan Keith who scored 14 goals and had 55 assists and Jonathan Toews with 25 goals and 43 assists. Toews only played in 76 regular season games. Jonathan Toews lead Chicago in the first round with eight points and most of them came in the final three games of the series.

To get to the semi finals the Black Hawks had to defeat the Nashville Predators in six games. Nashville started strong by winning the first game 4-1. The Black Hawks came back to win the second game 2-0. The Predators won game three 4-1 again. Chicago then came back and won the next three games 3-0, 5-4, and 5-3.

This match up is going to be an offensive battle between the Canucks and the Black Hawks and they do have a long history of not liking each other, which adds to the excitement. It should be a very offensive series with plenty of checking and action and probably some drama as these teams have along history of strong dislike for each other. Vancouver will be looking to get back for the defeat from last season that eliminated them. They had lead the series 2 games to 1 . In game four the Black Hawks came back to win in OT and then went on to win the next two games and clinch the series.

Goal tending will also play a big part in this series. Vancouver's Roberto Luongo, who led team Canada in their gold medal victory during the Olympics, was 2-2 against the Black Hawks this year. He gave up 7 goals last season in the final game against Chicago. The rookie Antti Niemi of the Black Hawks was 1-2 against Vancouver with one shut out. He had two shut outs against the Predators in the first four games. This included a power play goal and a couple of assists to help Chicago win game six

The key to winning this series is in the strong offense of both teams. The goalies will be working hard to keep the puck out of the goal. I think it will be Chicago in 7 games. Who do you think will win? Get over to www.here where everybody bets on NHL hockey.