{"id":11152,"date":"2011-04-14T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=11152"},"modified":"2011-04-14T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:21:03","slug":"mlb-runline-handicapping-phillies-vs-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/mlb-runline-handicapping-phillies-vs-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Runline Handicapping: Phillies vs. Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper<\/a> Matt Rivers has the free pick winner for Thursday is on the Phillies (-1.5) to Washington.<\/p>\n

Reasoning: Yes Philadelphia\u00a0at times can have a difficult\u00a0time with this Washington squad. The Nationals\u00a0are a division rival and overall\u00a0not a\u00a0terrible\u00a0team.\u00a0Jordan Zimmerman is a young kid with a bright future who may hold his own for a part of this game but after 9 innings I just see Lee dominating and the Fightin\u2019 Phils being able to take care of business.<\/p>\n

The Phillie left-hander struggled a bit in that last outing at Turner Field against the Braves. One bad inning and one bad play by Shane Victorino did Lee in in untypical losing fashion. I see the guy getting back on the horse here and dazzling as he does more times than not. Let\u2019s face it, Cliff Lee is a an absolute star and a guy that is extremely trustworthy. When he has a rough outing like that last one it is not a bad idea to go right back to him and expect him to be focused and ready to turn it back around because that\u2019s what great pitchers do.<\/p>\n

The Nats are alright and took the first game fairly easily in this series before getting shut down a bit, save the 9th<\/sup> inning,\u00a0in the 3-2 loss last night to Roy Halladay. I have no issues at times taking back big numbers with this Washington team. But they will once again be without their leader in Ryan Zimmerman, which is a big loss and cannot be understated,\u00a0and up against Lee are going to have a tough time at the plate.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll take my chances with high quality lefty bats like Howard, Rollins, Victorino, Ibanez and others today against the\u00a0young right-hander in\u00a0Zimmerman while getting what should be a more than focused Lee who is ready to follow Halladay\u2019s lead and twirl a gem.<\/p>\n

I can see 4-1 in this thing in the end!<\/p>\n

Top expert pick<\/a> on this game: Philadelphia Phillies on the runline.<\/p>\n

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OffshoreInsiders.com Senior Sports Handicapper Matt Rivers has the free pick winner for Thursday is on the Phillies (-1.5) to Washington. Reasoning: Yes Philadelphia\u00a0at times can have a difficult\u00a0time with this Washington squad. The Nationals\u00a0are a division rival and overall\u00a0not a\u00a0terrible\u00a0team.\u00a0Jordan Zimmerman is a young kid with a bright future who may hold his own for … Continue reading MLB Runline Handicapping: Phillies vs. Nationals<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}