{"id":1694,"date":"2008-08-23T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/astros-mets-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:44:00","slug":"astros-mets-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/astros-mets-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros-Mets Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Astros and the New York Mets will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Shea Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros will trot Brandon Backe out to the mound in this one. Righthander Backe has a 7-12 record and a 5.62 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Backe’s opponent in this one will be John Maine. The Mets righthander has a 3.82 ERA to go along with a 10-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets pitching staff allowed eight hits but managed to shut out the Astros 3-0 on Friday, as -210 favorites. The three runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (7). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brian Schneider hit a two-run homer to lift the Mets. Johan Santana allowed eight hits over seven innings to post the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ty Wigginton had two hits in four trips to the plate for the Astros, who were +185 underdogs. Roy Oswalt allowed three runs off four hits in a complete-game loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 64-64 SU
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 72-57 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing NY Mets are 3-7
After playing NY Mets are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

New York most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Houston are 5-5
After playing Houston are 6-4
After a win are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Houston is 17-8 SU in its last 25 games
Houston is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
Houston is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against NY Mets
NY Mets are 10-1 SU in its last 11 games
NY Mets are 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Houston
NY Mets are 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
NY Mets home to Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 24<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Astros and the New York Mets will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Shea Stadium. The Astros will trot Brandon Backe out to the mound in this one. Righthander Backe has a 7-12 record and a 5.62 ERA this season. Backe’s opponent in this one will be … Continue reading Astros-Mets Who Will Cover?<\/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-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","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=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}