{"id":1592,"date":"2008-08-13T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-pirates-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T11:46:00","slug":"reds-pirates-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-pirates-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds-Pirates Preview"},"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 Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?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\">Righthander Josh Fogg will take the mound for the Reds to start this game. Fogg is 2-4 this season with a 8.67 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Fogg&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Paul Maholm. The Pirates lefthander has a 3.76 ERA to go along with a 7-7 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 Pirates listed as 165-moneyline favorites versus the Reds, 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\">Brandon Phillips homered and drove in two runs to lead the Reds to a 5-1 win over the Pirates on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Reds were listed at -104 on the road in that contest, while the combined score played UNDER the day&#8217;s posted total (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Reds first baseman Javier Valentin went deep as well in that win, while outfielder Corey Patterson had two hits and two RBI. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 53-67 SU<br \/>Pittsburgh: 54-65 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cincinnati most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Pittsburgh are 5-5<br \/>After playing Pittsburgh are 3-7<br \/>After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Cincinnati are 5-5<br \/>After playing Cincinnati are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Cincinnati&#8217;s last 7 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cincinnati&#8217;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>Cincinnati is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road<br \/>Cincinnati is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Pittsburgh&#8217;s last 7 games when playing at home against Cincinnati<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Pittsburgh&#8217;s last 7 games <br \/>Pittsburgh is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games <br \/>Pittsburgh is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, August 14<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<\/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 Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at PNC Park. Righthander Josh Fogg will take the mound for the Reds to start this game. Fogg is 2-4 this season with a 8.67 ERA. Fogg&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Paul Maholm. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-pirates-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reds-Pirates Preview<\/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-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}