{"id":1696,"date":"2008-08-23T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-rockies-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:48:00","slug":"reds-rockies-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-rockies-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds-Rockies 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 Colorado Rockies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Saturday when they take on the Cincinnati Reds at Coors Field. <?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\">Righthander Edison Volquez will take the mound for the Reds to start this game. Volquez is 15-4 this season with a 2.76 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Volquez&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Aaron Cook. The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> ace righthander has a 3.81 ERA to go along with a 15-8 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 Reds got out to an early lead and held on to defeat the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> 8-5 as a +110 underdog on Friday. The 13 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (11.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Joey Votto went 3-for-4 at the plate with two RBIs for the Reds. Aaron Harang tossed six scoreless innings for the win, and Francisco Cordero notched his 25<sup>th<\/sup> save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ian Stewart had four hits in five trips to the plate for the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place>, who were favored at -125 in the contest. Livan Hernandez surrendered six runs off eight hits over 3 2-3 innings in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 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>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 57-72 SU<br \/>Colorado: 59-71 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cincinnati most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Colorado are 2-8<br \/>After playing Colorado are 1-9<br \/>After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n<p>Colorado most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Cincinnati are 6-4<br \/>After playing Cincinnati are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Cincinnati is 6-13 SU in its last 19 games when playing on the road against Colorado<br \/>Cincinnati is 7-18 SU in its last 25 games <br \/>Cincinnati is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing Colorado<br \/>Colorado is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Cincinnati<br \/>Colorado is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Colorado is 13-6 SU in its last 19 games when playing at home against Cincinnati<br \/>Colorado is 1-5 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:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/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 Colorado Rockies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Saturday when they take on the Cincinnati Reds at Coors Field. Righthander Edison Volquez will take the mound for the Reds to start this game. Volquez is 15-4 this season with a 2.76 ERA. Volquez&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Aaron Cook. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-rockies-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reds-Rockies 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-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}