{"id":1605,"date":"2008-08-14T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/cardinals-marlins-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:40:00","slug":"cardinals-marlins-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/cardinals-marlins-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Marlins Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Dolphin Stadium will be treated to a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Florida Marlins when they take their seats on Thursday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals will give the ball to starter Brad Thompson in this one. Righthander Thompson is 1-1 this season with a 2.87 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be ace Scott Olsen toeing the rubber for the Marlins in this contest. Lefthander Olsen is 6-7 with a 4.04 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Marlins listed as 120-moneyline favorites versus the Cardinals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals held off a late rally to defeat the Marlins 6-4 as +125 underdogs on Wednesday. The Cardinals won the game as +125 underdogs, while the 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Troy Glaus went 4-for-4 at the plate with one RBI, while Jason LaRue and Adam Kennedy drove in two runs apiece for the Cardinals. Braden Looper threw seven innings for the win, allowing two runs off five hits. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mike Jacobs went 2-for-4 at the plate with two RBIs for the Marlins, who were favored at -138. Renyel Pinto gave up two runs in relief of starter Ricky Nolasco and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 67-56 SU
Florida: 63-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing Cincinnati are 6-4
After playing Florida are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Florida most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Chi Cubs are 6-4
After playing St. Louis are 4-6
After a loss are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
St. Louis is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing on the road against Florida
St. Louis is 12-4 SU in its last 16 games when playing Florida
Florida is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games at home
Florida is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
Florida is 4-12 SU in its last 16 games when playing St. Louis
Florida is 2-8 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against St. Louis<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 15
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Chi Cubs, Friday, August 15<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at Dolphin Stadium will be treated to a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Florida Marlins when they take their seats on Thursday. The Cardinals will give the ball to starter Brad Thompson in this one. Righthander Thompson is 1-1 this season with a 2.87 ERA. It’ll be ace Scott Olsen … Continue reading Cardinals-Marlins Pointers<\/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-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","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=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}