{"id":1743,"date":"2008-08-28T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-astros-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:57:00","slug":"reds-astros-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-astros-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds-Astros 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 fans at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Minute<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Maid<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> will be treated to a game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Houston Astros when they take their seats on Thursday. <?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 Reds will give the ball to ace starter Aaron Harang in this one. Righthander Harang is 4-13 this season with a 5.51 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Harang&#8217;s opponent in this one will be Brandon Backe. The Astros righthander has a 5.54 ERA to go along with a 8-12 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\" class=MsoBodyText><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Astros listed as 145-moneyline favorites versus the Reds, 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\">Hunter Pence and Ty Wigginton both hit two-run homers to lead the Astros to a 4-1 win over the Reds on Wednesday, as -260 favorites. The combined five runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Joey Votto drove in the lone run for the Reds, who were +230 underdogs. Josh Fogg gave up two runs off six hits over six innings to suffer the loss. <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>: 58-75 SU<br \/>Houston: 67-66 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 Thursday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing San Francisco are 4-6<br \/>After playing Houston are 2-8<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Houston most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing St. Louis are 4-6<br \/>After playing Cincinnati are 9-1<br \/>After a win 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 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Houston<br \/>Cincinnati is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>Cincinnati is 7-17 SU in its last 24 games <br \/>Cincinnati is 2-13 SU in its last 15 games when playing Houston<br \/>Houston is 13-2 SU in its last 15 games when playing Cincinnati<br \/>Houston is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games at home<br \/>Houston is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Cincinnati<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 29<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 29<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt\" class=MsoBodyText><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Are you ready to start winning week 5-of-5 on GodsTips? 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Harang&#8217;s opponent in this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/reds-astros-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reds-Astros 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-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","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=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}