{"id":1752,"date":"2008-08-29T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/phillies-cubs-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T14:42:00","slug":"phillies-cubs-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/phillies-cubs-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies-Cubs Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Phillies will trot ace Joe Blanton out to the mound in this one. Righthander Blanton has a 6-12 record and a 4.74 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs will counter Blanton with Rich Harden. Righthander Harden has a 2.00 ERA to go along with a 9-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 255-moneyline favorites versus the Phillies, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

The Cubs scored five runs in the eighth inning to earn a 6-4 win over the Phillies as -140 favorites on Thursday. The 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aramis Ramirez sparked the comeback with a grand slam home run for the Cubs. Bob Howry got the win in relief, and Kerry Wood threw the ninth for his 28th save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chase Utley went 3-for-5 at the plate with one RBI for the Phillies, who were +125 underdogs. Chad Durbin surrendered two runs in relief and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 6 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 73-61 SU
Chicago: 84-50 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Philadelphia most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Chi Cubs are 6-4
After playing Chi Cubs are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Philadelphia are 5-5
After playing Philadelphia are 5-5
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Philadelphia is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games
Philadelphia is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
Philadelphia is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games on the road
Chi Cubs are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games
Chi Cubs are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games at home
Chi Cubs are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games when playing at home against Philadelphia<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, August 30<\/font><\/div>\n

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The Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Wrigley Field. The Phillies will trot ace Joe Blanton out to the mound in this one. Righthander Blanton has a 6-12 record and a 4.74 ERA this season. The Cubs will counter Blanton … Continue reading Phillies-Cubs Preview<\/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-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","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=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}