{"id":1690,"date":"2008-08-23T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/braves-cardinals-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:34:00","slug":"braves-cardinals-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/braves-cardinals-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves-Cardinals Pointers"},"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 and the St. Louis Cardinals will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Busch 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 pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Jorge Campillo in this game. Campillo has a 7-6 record and a 3.71 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Starting this game for the Cardinals will be Kyle Lohse. The righthander has a 3.94 ERA to go along with a 13-6 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Odds aren&#8217;t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cardinals pounded out 26 hits as they flew past the Braves 18-3 in Friday&#8217;s opener, as -200 favorites. The combined 21 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (9). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Yadier Molina had four hits and four RBIs in five trips to the plate for the Cardinals. Adam Wainwright pitched six innings for the win, allowing one run off five hits. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Greg Norton homered for the Braves, who came into that game as +185 underdogs. Charlie Morton gave up four runs off five hits in under two innings to suffer the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 6 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: <\/font><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:Street><st1:address>56-73 SU<br \/>St.<\/st1:address><\/st1:Street> Louis: 72-58 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 Saturday are 3-7<br \/>Before playing St. Louis are 2-8<br \/>After playing St. Louis are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 1-9<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Atlanta are 6-4<br \/>After playing Atlanta are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 5-5<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 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against St. Louis<br \/>Atlanta is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing St. Louis<br \/>Atlanta is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Atlanta is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>St. Louis is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Atlanta<br \/>St. Louis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Atlanta<br \/>St. Louis is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games <br \/>St. Louis is 4-2 SU in its last 6 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>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 24<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<\/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 and the St. Louis Cardinals will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Busch Stadium. The Braves will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Jorge Campillo in this game. Campillo has a 7-6 record and a 3.71 ERA this season. Starting this game for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/braves-cardinals-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Braves-Cardinals Pointers<\/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-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}