{"id":1672,"date":"2008-08-21T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/braves-mets-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:10:00","slug":"braves-mets-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/braves-mets-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves-Mets 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 Atlanta Braves will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Thursday when they take on the New York Mets at Shea Stadium. <?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\">The Braves will give the ball to starter Mike Hampton in this one. Lefthander Hampton is 2-1 this season with a 6.92 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Mets will counter <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Hampton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> with Pedro Martinez. Righthander Martinez has a 4.96 ERA to go along with a 4-3 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Mets listed as 210-moneyline favorites versus the Braves, 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 Mets scored five runs in the first inning in defeating the Braves 6-3 as a -140 favorite on Wednesday. That game&#8217;s nine 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\">Daniel Murphy drove in two runs, and David Wright homered for the Mets. Mike Pelfrey tossed a complete-game for his 12<sup>th<\/sup> victory, allowing three runs off three hits. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Gregor Blanco had two hits and drove in the lone run for the Braves, who were +125 underdogs. Jair Jurrjens gave up six runs over five innings in taking the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 56-71 SU<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 70-57 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Atlanta most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing St. Louis are 3-7<br \/>After playing NY Mets are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>New York most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Houston are 4-6<br \/>After playing Atlanta are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Atlanta is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing NY Mets<br \/>Atlanta is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against NY Mets<br \/>Atlanta is 1-9 SU in its last 10 games <br \/>NY Mets are 8-1 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>NY Mets are 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Atlanta<br \/>NY Mets are 17-5 SU in its last 22 games at home<br \/>NY Mets are 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Atlanta<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 22<br \/>NY Mets home to <st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 22<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<p><strong><\/strong><\/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 Atlanta Braves will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Thursday when they take on the New York Mets at Shea Stadium. The Braves will give the ball to starter Mike Hampton in this one. Lefthander Hampton is 2-1 this season with a 6.92 ERA. The Mets will counter Hampton with Pedro Martinez. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/braves-mets-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Braves-Mets 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-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","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=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}