{"id":1598,"date":"2008-08-14T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/diamondbacks-rockies-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T11:54:00","slug":"diamondbacks-rockies-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/diamondbacks-rockies-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks-Rockies Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Coors Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Diamondbacks will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Dan Haren in this game. Haren has a 12-6 record and a 3.00 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockies<\/st1:place> will counter Haren with Glendon Rusch. Lefthander Rusch has a 4.30 ERA to go along with a 4-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Diamondbacks listed as 150-moneyline favorites versus the Rockies<\/st1:place>, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brad Hawpe belted a two-run homer in leading the Rockies<\/st1:place> to a 6-5 win over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday, as -135 favorites. The 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hawpe finished 3-for-3 at the plate for the D-Backs. Taylor Buchholz improved to 5-3 with the win, and Brian Fuentes notched his 22nd<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jon Rauch gave up two runs in relief to suffer the loss for the Diamondbacks, who were ++115 underdogs in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 61-59 SU
Colorado: 54-68 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Arizona most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 3-7
Before playing Houston are 6-4
After playing Colorado are 7-3
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Colorado most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Washington are 5-5
After playing Arizona are 3-7
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Arizona is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games when playing Colorado
Arizona is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Colorado
Arizona is 8-4 SU in its last 12 games on the road
Arizona is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
Colorado is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games at home
Colorado is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
Colorado is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Arizona
Colorado is 2-9 SU in its last 11 games when playing Arizona<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 15
Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, August 15<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Coors Field. The Diamondbacks will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Dan Haren in this game. Haren has a 12-6 record and a 3.00 ERA this season. The Rockies will counter … Continue reading Diamondbacks-Rockies Preview<\/span> →<\/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-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}