{"id":1604,"date":"2008-08-14T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/cubs-braves-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:37:00","slug":"cubs-braves-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/cubs-braves-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs-Braves Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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A winning streak will be on the line for the Chicago Cubs on Thursday when they battle the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lefthander Ted Lilly will take the mound for the Cubs to start this game. Lilly is 11-6 this season with a 4.26 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Tom Glavine toeing the rubber for the Braves in this contest. Lefthander Glavine is 2-3 with a 4.85 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 137-moneyline favorites versus the Braves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs completed a sweep of their doubleheader with an 8-0 pasting of the Braves in Game 2 as -130 favorites on Wednesday. The eight runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aramis Ramirez had two hits and two RBIs in four trips to the plate for the Cubs. Rich Harden combined on a three-hit shutout to earn the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jorge Campillo gave up five runs off seven hits over five innings in suffering the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Braves were +120 underdogs in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 73-47 SU
Atlanta: 55-65 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing Florida are 3-7
After playing Atlanta are 7-3
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing San Francisco are 6-4
After playing Chi Cubs are 3-7
After a loss are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Chi Cubs are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing Atlanta
Chi Cubs are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games on the road
Chi Cubs are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games
Chi Cubs are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
Atlanta is 6-12 SU in its last 18 games
Atlanta is 2-5 SU in their last 7 games when playing at home against Chi Cubs
Atlanta is 2-9 SU in its last 11 games at home
Atlanta is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games when playing Chi Cubs<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs at Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, August 15
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 15<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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A winning streak will be on the line for the Chicago Cubs on Thursday when they battle the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. Lefthander Ted Lilly will take the mound for the Cubs to start this game. Lilly is 11-6 this season with a 4.26 ERA. It’ll be Tom Glavine toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading Cubs-Braves 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-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}