{"id":1636,"date":"2008-08-17T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/mets-pirates-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T13:27:00","slug":"mets-pirates-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/mets-pirates-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets-Pirates Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Sunday when they take on the New York Mets at PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace Johan Santana will be the starting pitcher for the Mets on this day. Lefthander Santana is 10-7 this season with a 2.89 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Jeff Karstens toeing the rubber for the Pirates in this contest. Righthander Karstens is 2-1 with a 1.23 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Mets listed as 210-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets extended their winning streak to five games with a 7-4 win over the Pirates on Saturday, as -160 favorites. The combined 11 runs made it OVER the night’s posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose Reyes homered with two RBIs, while Ramon Castro also drove in two runs for the Mets. Pedro Martinez allowed one run off eight hits over seven innings for the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Andy LaRoche belted a solo home run and Jack Wilson had three hits with one RBI for the Pirates, who were +145 underdogs in that game. Zach Duke surrendered six runs off nine hits over six innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 5 straight games.
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 67-56 SU
Pittsburgh: 55-68 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 7-3
Before playing Pittsburgh are 9-1
After playing Pittsburgh are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing NY Mets are 1-9
After playing NY Mets are 3-7
After a loss are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
NY Mets are 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
NY Mets are 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 10 of NY Mets’s last 11 games when playing Pittsburgh
NY Mets are 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Pittsburgh’s last 11 games when playing NY Mets
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Pittsburgh’s last 11 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing at home against NY Mets<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to NY Mets, Monday, August 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Sunday when they take on the New York Mets at PNC Park. Ace Johan Santana will be the starting pitcher for the Mets on this day. Lefthander Santana is 10-7 this season with a 2.89 ERA. It’ll be Jeff Karstens toeing the rubber … Continue reading Mets-Pirates 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-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","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=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}