{"id":1582,"date":"2008-08-12T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/diamondbacks-rockies-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:51:00","slug":"diamondbacks-rockies-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/diamondbacks-rockies-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks-Rockies Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies will meet on the field at Coors Field on Tuesday in a battle of division rivals. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Diamondbacks will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Randy Johnson in this game. Johnson has a 9-8 record and a 4.24 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> will counter Johnson with Ubaldo Jimenez. Righthander Jimenez has a 3.86 ERA to go along with a 8-10 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Diamondbacks, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Diamondbacks defeated <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 6-1 as a -200 favorite on Sunday. The seven runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Brandon Webb allowed one run on six hits in six innings to record his 17<sup>th<\/sup> win of the season for <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, while Chris Snyder hit a solo home run. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> lost to <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 16-7 as a -105 favorite on Sunday. The 23 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (10.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Brad Hawpe hit a three-run home for the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> and Cory Sullivan was 2-3 with two RBI. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 60-58 SU<br \/>Colorado: 53-67 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Arizona most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Colorado are 7-3<br \/>After playing Atlanta are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Colorado most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Arizona are 2-8<br \/>After playing San Diego are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Arizona is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing Colorado<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Arizona&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Colorado<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Arizona&#8217;s last 11 games when playing on the road against Colorado<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 10 of Arizona&#8217;s last 14 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Colorado&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Arizona<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Colorado&#8217;s last 11 games when playing at home against Arizona<br \/>Colorado is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Colorado is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Wednesday, August 13<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies will meet on the field at Coors Field on Tuesday in a battle of division rivals. The Diamondbacks will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Randy Johnson in this game. Johnson has a 9-8 record and a 4.24 ERA this season. The Rockies will counter Johnson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/diamondbacks-rockies-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diamondbacks-Rockies Who Will Cover?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}