{"id":1712,"date":"2008-08-25T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/dodgers-phillies-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:32:00","slug":"dodgers-phillies-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/dodgers-phillies-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers-Phillies Preview"},"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 Los Angeles Dodgers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Monday when they take on the Philadelphia Phillies at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Citizens<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Bank<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?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\">Chad Billingsley will be the starting pitcher for the Dodgers on this day. Righthander Billingsley is 12-9 this season with a 3.09 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Phillies will counter Billingsley with Brett Myers. Righthander Myers has a 4.71 ERA to go along with a 6-10 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\"><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Phillies listed as 115-moneyline favorites versus the Dodgers, 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\">The Phillies defeated the Dodgers 5-2 as a -105 favorite on Sunday. The seven runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Pedro Feliz delivered a walk-off three-run home run in the bottom of the 11<sup>th<\/sup> inning for <st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Shane Victorino was 2-4 with two runs scored. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jeff Kent was 3-5 with an RBI for the Dodgers and Andre Either scored a pair of runs in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/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>Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 65-65 SU<br \/>Philadelphia: 71-59 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Los Angeles most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Washington are 9-1<br \/>After playing Philadelphia are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing NY Mets are 4-6<br \/>After playing LA Dodgers are 3-7<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 \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of LA Dodgers&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of LA Dodgers&#8217;s last 10 games when playing on the road against Philadelphia<br \/>LA Dodgers are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games when playing Philadelphia<br \/>LA Dodgers are 6-13 SU in their last 19 games when playing on the road against Philadelphia<br \/>Philadelphia is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games at home<br \/>Philadelphia is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Philadelphia&#8217;s last 11 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Philadelphia&#8217;s last 5 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>LA Dodgers at <st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, August 26<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to NY Mets, 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 Los Angeles Dodgers will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Monday when they take on the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Chad Billingsley will be the starting pitcher for the Dodgers on this day. Righthander Billingsley is 12-9 this season with a 3.09 ERA. The Phillies will counter Billingsley with Brett &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/dodgers-phillies-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dodgers-Phillies Preview<\/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-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","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=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}