{"id":1607,"date":"2008-08-14T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/phillies-dodgers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-14T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T12:46:00","slug":"phillies-dodgers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/phillies-dodgers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies-Dodgers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Philadelphia Phillies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Thursday when they take on the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Phillies will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Brett Myers in this game. Myers has a 5-9 record and a 5.09 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Dodgers will counter Myers with Hiroki Kuroda. Righthander Kuroda has a 4.02 ERA to go along with a 6-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Dodgers listed as 130-moneyline favorites versus the Phillies, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nomar Garciaparra hit a walk-off home run to give the Dodgers a 7-6 win over the Phillies as a -105 pick’em on Wednesday. The game’s combined 13 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jeff Kent went 4-for-5 at the plate with two RBIs for the Dodgers. Jonathan Broxton tossed a scoreless ninth to earn his third win of the season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Greg Dobbs smacked a two-run homer for the Phillies. Clay Condrey gave up the home run and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 64-56 SU
Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 61-59 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Philadelphia most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 6-4
Before playing San Diego are 3-7
After playing LA Dodgers are 3-7
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Los Angeles most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Milwaukee are 2-8
After playing Philadelphia are 5-5
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Philadelphia is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Philadelphia is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
Philadelphia is 1-5 SU in their last 6 games when playing on the road against LA Dodgers
Philadelphia is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games when playing LA Dodgers
LA Dodgers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing Philadelphia
LA Dodgers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games at home
LA Dodgers are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games when playing at home against Philadelphia
LA Dodgers are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 15
LA Dodgers home to Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 15<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Philadelphia Phillies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Thursday when they take on the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. The Phillies will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Brett Myers in this game. Myers has a 5-9 record and a 5.09 ERA this season. The Dodgers will counter … Continue reading Phillies-Dodgers 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-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}