{"id":1685,"date":"2008-08-23T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/nationals-cubs-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:19:00","slug":"nationals-cubs-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/nationals-cubs-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals-Cubs Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
The Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Wrigley Field. <\/p>\n
The Nationals will trot Odalis Perez out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Perez has a 5-9 record and a 3.95 ERA this season. <\/p>\n
It’ll be Ryan Dempster toeing the rubber for the Cubs in this contest. Righthander Dempster is 14-5 with a 2.92 ERA so far this season. <\/p>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/p>\n
Willie Harris hit a grand slam in a six-run inning as the Nationals crushed the Cubs 13-5 on Friday, as +235 underdogs. The game’s 18 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (12). <\/p>\n
Aaron Boone hit a bases-loaded double to drive in three runs for the Nationals. John Lannan scattered five runs over 6 1-3 innings to earn the victory. <\/p>\n
Mark DeRosa went 2-for-4 at the plate with two RBIs for the Cubs, who had been favored at -270. Neal Cotts gave up two runs in relief and was tagged with the loss. <\/p>\n
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Current streak:
Washington has won 2 straight games. <\/p>\n
Team records:
Washington: 46-83 SU
Chicago: 78-50 SU <\/p>\n
Washington most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 4-6
Before playing Chi Cubs are 5-5
After playing Chi Cubs are 3-7
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Washington are 7-3
After playing Washington are 5-5
After a loss are 8-2 <\/p>\n

A few trends to consider:
Washington is 4-2 SU in their last 6 games when playing Chi Cubs
Washington is 2-5 SU in their last 7 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
Washington is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road
Washington is 2-12 SU in its last 14 games
Chi Cubs are 18-6 SU in their last 24 games
Chi Cubs are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games when playing at home against Washington
Chi Cubs are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games at home
Chi Cubs are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing Washington <\/p>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Washington, Sunday, August 24<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
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The Washington Nationals and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Wrigley Field. The Nationals will trot Odalis Perez out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Perez has a 5-9 record and a 3.95 ERA this season. It’ll be Ryan Dempster toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Nationals-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-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}