{"id":1667,"date":"2008-08-21T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-cubs-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T06:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T11:53:00","slug":"reds-cubs-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-cubs-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds-Cubs Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Josh Fogg will be the starting pitcher for the Reds on this day. Righthander Fogg is 2-5 this season with a 8.57 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be ace Carlos Zambrano toeing the rubber for the Cubs in this contest. Righthander Zambrano is 12-5 with a 3.38 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 330-moneyline favorites versus the Reds, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Reds scored off a fielder’s choice and a sacrifice fly as they defeated the Cubs 2-1 on Wednesday, as +215 underdogs. The three runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jeff Keppinger and Jolbert Cabrera drove in the runs for Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. Bronson Arroyo was solid on the mound, giving up just one run of three hits over seven innings for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mark DeRosa had two hits and drove in the lone run for the Cubs, who were favored at -250 in that game. Ted Lilly surrendered two runs off two hits with seven strikeouts in a losing effort. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 56-71 SU
Chicago: 77-49 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cincinnati most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Colorado are 3-7
After playing Chi Cubs are 5-5
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Washington are 7-3
After playing Cincinnati are 6-4
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Cincinnati is 3-6 SU in their last 9 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
Cincinnati is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games on the road
Cincinnati is 6-18 SU in its last 24 games
Chi Cubs are 7-2 SU in their last 9 games
Chi Cubs are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games at home
Chi Cubs are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games when playing at home against Cincinnati<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, August 22
Chi Cubs home to Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, August 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Wrigley Field. Josh Fogg will be the starting pitcher for the Reds on this day. Righthander Fogg is 2-5 this season with a 8.57 ERA. It’ll be ace Carlos Zambrano toeing the rubber … Continue reading Reds-Cubs 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-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","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=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}