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Through their sweep of the Red Sox the Rays sat with the best record in baseball and are on pace for 100 wins. Last time out Kazmir struggled with his command in his no decision against the Red Sox. He is having trouble getting his slider over for strikes and opposing hitters are sitting on the fastball. The Rays are a 19-19 team on the road. Big Sidney Ponson will have to bounce back after an awful start last time out against the Rangers where he surrendered 7 runs, 9 hits and 3 walks over 5 innings. Tampa got to the right-hander for 5 earned runs and 12 hits in only 5 innings of work during their meeting on May 26th. The Yankee bats heated up in June as they batted over .280 as a team during the month. Bet on the offense here and the play is over 9 ½ runs.