{"id":1616,"date":"2008-08-16T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/diamondbacks-astros-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T13:03:00","slug":"diamondbacks-astros-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/diamondbacks-astros-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks-Astros Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Arizona Diamondbacks will be trying to extend a winning streak on Saturday when they take on the Houston Astros at Minute<\/st1:PlaceName> Maid<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Diamondbacks will trot Yusmeiro Petit out to the mound in this one. Righthander Petit has a 1-2 record and a 3.00 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Petit’s opponent in this one will be Brandon Backe. The Astros righthander has a 5.14 ERA to go along with a 7-11 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Astros listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Diamondbacks, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Diamondbacks made the most of 14 hits as they routed the Astros 12-2 as -145 favorites on Friday. The combined 14 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris Snyder belted a two-run homer and finished 2-for-4 with four RBIs for the Diamondbacks. Brandon Webb improved to 18-4 with the win, allowing two runs on four hits over eight innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ty Wigginton had three hits, including a solo home run for the Astros, who were +135 underdogs. Wandy Rodriguez gave up four runs over 2 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 63-59 SU
Houston: 62-60 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Arizona most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Houston are 7-3
After playing Houston are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Arizona are 3-7
After playing Arizona are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Arizona is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Houston
Arizona is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Arizona’s last 8 games when playing Houston
Arizona is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games on the road
Houston is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
Houston is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Houston’s last 8 games when playing Arizona
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Houston’s last 11 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, August 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Arizona Diamondbacks will be trying to extend a winning streak on Saturday when they take on the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. The Diamondbacks will trot Yusmeiro Petit out to the mound in this one. Righthander Petit has a 1-2 record and a 3.00 ERA this season. Petit’s opponent in this one will … Continue reading Diamondbacks-Astros Who Will Cover?<\/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-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}