{"id":1633,"date":"2008-08-17T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/cubs-marlins-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:19:00","slug":"cubs-marlins-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/cubs-marlins-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs-Marlins Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago Cubs and the Florida Marlins will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Dolphin Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs will give the ball to starter Ryan Dempster in this one. Righthander Dempster is 13-5 this season with a 2.92 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Chris Volstad toeing the rubber for the Marlins in this contest. Righthander Volstad is 3-2 with a 3.19 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 150-moneyline favorites versus the Marlins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Marlins got the winning run in the fifth inning and held off the Cubs for a 2-1 win on Saturday as a -105 pick’em. The three runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hanley Ramirez led the way with two hits, including a solo home run for the Marlins. Anibal Sanchez threw 5 1-3 innings for his second win, allowing just three hits and one run. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Henry Blanco homered for the Cubs. Sean Marshall allowed both runs over five innings to suffer the loss on the mound. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 75-48 SU
Florida: 64-60 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 3-7
Before playing Cincinnati are 8-2
After playing Florida are 3-7
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Florida most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 2-8
Before playing San Francisco are 2-8
After playing Chi Cubs are 8-2
After a win are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Chi Cubs’s last 11 games on the road
Chi Cubs are 9-1 SU in their last 10 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Chi Cubs’s last 7 games
Chi Cubs are 5-1 SU in their last 6 games
Florida is 7-1 SU in their last 8 games when playing at home against Chi Cubs
Florida is 13-3 SU in their last 16 games when playing Chi Cubs
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Florida’s last 9 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Florida’s last 11 games when playing at home against Chi Cubs<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 19
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Chicago Cubs and the Florida Marlins will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Dolphin Stadium. The Cubs will give the ball to starter Ryan Dempster in this one. Righthander Dempster is 13-5 this season with a 2.92 ERA. It’ll be Chris Volstad toeing the rubber for the Marlins … Continue reading Cubs-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-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}