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Horse Racing Tampa Bay Rays vs Boston Red Sox Same Game Parlay: 3.60 Bet Builder For Monday Night
TAMPA BAY RAYS VS BOSTON RED SOX MONDAY NIGHT SAME-GAME PARLAY
The Boston Red Sox will begin a stretch of 13 games against AL East opponents from now until September 17, and it all starts with a trip to the Trop to face the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday night. With a simple Same-Game Parlay in mind with odds of 3.60, Ej has his eyes on a side and a total for this first game of three in the Sunshine State between Boston and Tampa Bay.
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Same Game Parlay Odds: 3.60
Odds via Bet365 as of 8:00 am on September 4, 2023. Odds may now differ
TAMPA BAY RAYS VS BOSTON RED SOX SAME GAME PARLAY: SOX & RAYS IN TAMPA FOR THREE NIGHTS
TAMPA BAY RAYS MONEYLINE
The Rays return home to play 3 games with the Boston Red Sox, and the line setters expect the home team to earn the win on Monday night. With marginal juice attached to the Rays’ Moneyline action, the prospect of putting the bet in a same-game parlay with the total still gives us a 3.10 ticket to cash.
This one should be in the bank early, as Brayan Bello and Aaron Civale are the expected starting pitchers for this Monday night contest at the Trop in Tampa. Civale was in line to pitch on Sunday, but Taj Bradley returned to the field for the first time since landing on the IL on July 29. Bradley lasted 5 innings but wasn’t involved with Sunday’s decision, a game that Tampa Bay eventually won, 6 – 2, over the Guardians. The Rays avoided the sweep at the hands of Cleveland on Sunday, so the plane ride back from Ohio to Florida should be a serious one with what is on deck for the Rays in the schedule.
Before I get to both of the schedules ahead for these teams, and they face entirely different situations over the next two weeks, I want to get back to Civale and Bello.
Civale has now made 5 starts with his new team, and it is hard to not notice something rather large from his overall campaign in 2023. With 13 starts in Cleveland and now 5 under his belt with Tampa Bay, Civale has yet to allow more than 4 earned runs in any start he’s made this season.
That is ridiculous, and I mean that in a good way, of course! The Rays have won 4 out of 5 games that Civale has started since dawning the Rays uniform, and I expect that trend to continue in the winning direction on Monday night.
Bello just split a pair of decisions against Houston in his last two outings, and his results have been scattered since the 3 – 1 start to the campaign. Since May 23, Bello has a 7 – 7 record with a trio of no-decisions to his credit, and that’s just showing us no signs of consistency at all.
I trust Civale to get it done with another solid effort for his new squad!
RUNS COULD BE SCARCE EARLY BUT WE’LL GET THERE!
I wanted to get back to the schedules because the Rays schedule ahead is actually pretty brutal. While the Sox will play all four AL East opponents in a row, the Rays have a much more difficult slate to navigate over the next couple of weeks.
After these three games with Boston, the Rays will play four with Seattle, three against Minnesota, and they’ll have a 4-game series with the Orioles that is going to be absolutely huge!
Phew!
Anyway, when I saw the combo of only 8.5 runs to go with the Tampa Moneyline, and we are still getting a decent return of 3.60, I can live what that to start the week. We will get the 9 runs we’ll need to cross the plate along with the Rays winning this game, so let me put it out there… 7 – 4 Rays is my score prediction, and none of us will cry if it is 5 – 4 with a Rays win either!
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