{"id":1635,"date":"2008-08-17T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/phillies-padres-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:24:00","slug":"phillies-padres-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/phillies-padres-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies-Padres Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Philadelphia Phillies and the San Diego Padres will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>PETCO<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ace lefthander Cole Hamels will take the mound for the Phillies to start this game. Hamels is 9-8 this season with a 3.32 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It&#8217;ll be Cha Seung Baek toeing the rubber for the Padres in this contest. Righthander Baek is 3-7 with a 5.10 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Phillies listed as 190-moneyline favorites versus the Padres, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Padres evened their three-game series with a convincing 8-3 win over the Phillies on Saturday, as +138 underdogs. The combined 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Brian Giles drove in four runs to lead the Padres, and Jody Gerut had two RBIs. Chad Reineke allowed three earned runs over five innings to get the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Shane Victorino went 2-for-4 with one RBI for the Phillies, who were favored at -145 in that game. Kyle Kendrick was taken for six runs in just under four innings of work in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 65-58 SU<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 48-75 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Philadelphia most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Washington are 5-5<br \/>After playing San Diego are 7-3<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>San Diego most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Arizona are 5-5<br \/>After playing Philadelphia are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Philadelphia&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against San Diego<br \/>Philadelphia is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against San Diego<br \/>Philadelphia is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing San Diego<br \/>Philadelphia is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of San Diego&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Philadelphia<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of San Diego&#8217;s last 8 games at home<br \/>San Diego is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Philadelphia<br \/>San Diego is 6-19 SU in its last 25 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, August 19<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, August 19<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies and the San Diego Padres will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at PETCO Park. Ace lefthander Cole Hamels will take the mound for the Phillies to start this game. Hamels is 9-8 this season with a 3.32 ERA. It&#8217;ll be Cha Seung Baek toeing the rubber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/phillies-padres-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phillies-Padres Who Will Cover?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","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=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}