Yes, I know its spring only, but one would think that this is Hellickson's last start before Saturday, might pitch more than a few innings, and with his stats, twins at -120 look good.
Twins have quite a few relievers to pitch today per the St.Pete times..not sure how long Hendricks might go, but if both managers want to get a good amount of innings out of them,then I will take the Twinkies. Also, this stat might mean dick, but the rays are 2-5-1 vs twins this spring.Hellickson also faced the twins back on march 26 and got rocked giving up 10 runs,11 hits and 3 dongs in 3 innings
Quotes from Hell after the beatdown.. Hellickson gave up 10 runs and 11 hits -- including three home runs -- in three innings. He entered having allowed seven runs and nine hits through his first seven innings."I think I was just missing, coming back over the plate, and I was falling behind a lot," he said. "They were seeing the ball good today, and I just made some bad pitches." Pitchers: Rays — Jeremy Hellickson, relievers TBD; Twins— Liam Hendriks, Matt Capps, Glen Perkins, Brian Duensing, Alex Burnett, Kyle Waldrop, Jeff Gray
Twins..L Hendriks 3 0 0 1.80 7 3 0 0 20.0 14 4 4
Toss up for me. No Desmond Jennings, Longoria, Pena in the lineup for the Rays. However, if Matt Capps does pitch for the Twins again today, that could mean a L. Blew the game yesterday for the Twins after they came back and had a 2 run lead in the 9th.