{"id":1707,"date":"2008-08-24T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/pirates-brewers-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:49:00","slug":"pirates-brewers-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/pirates-brewers-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Brewers 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 Pittsburgh Pirates and the Milwaukee Brewers will meet on the field at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Miller<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Sunday in a battle of division rivals. <?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 Pirates will give the ball to starter Paul Maholm in this one. Lefthander Maholm is 8-7 this season with a 3.64 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It&#8217;ll be CC Sabathia toeing the rubber for the Brewers in this contest. Lefthander Sabathia is 14-8 with a 3.00 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Brewers listed as 320-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, 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\">Ryan Braun belted a two-run homer and drove in three runs to lift the Brewers to a 6-3 win over the Pirates on Saturday, as -270 favorites. The nine runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (9). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Prince Fielder went 2-for-4 at the plate with two RBIs for the Brewers. Jeff Suppan threw seven innings for the win, allowing three runs off eight hits. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Adam LaRoche had two hits in four trips to the plate, including a solo home run. Tom Gorzelanny gave up six earned runs over 4 2-3 innings in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Pirates entered that game as +230 underdogs. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 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>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 57-72 SU<br \/>Milwaukee: 75-55 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Pittsburgh most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Chi Cubs are 5-5<br \/>After playing Milwaukee are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee most recently:<br \/>When playing on Sunday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing St. Louis are 6-4<br \/>After playing Pittsburgh are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 11 of Pittsburgh&#8217;s last 15 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Pittsburgh&#8217;s last 17 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh&#8217;s last 6 games when playing Milwaukee<br \/>Pittsburgh is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>Milwaukee is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh<br \/>Milwaukee is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh<br \/>Milwaukee is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games at home<br \/>Milwaukee is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Chi Cubs, Monday, August 25<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 26<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 Pittsburgh Pirates and the Milwaukee Brewers will meet on the field at Miller Park on Sunday in a battle of division rivals. The Pirates will give the ball to starter Paul Maholm in this one. Lefthander Maholm is 8-7 this season with a 3.64 ERA. It&#8217;ll be CC Sabathia toeing the rubber for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/pirates-brewers-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirates-Brewers 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-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}