{"id":1811,"date":"2008-09-02T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/pirates-reds-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:18:00","slug":"pirates-reds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/pirates-reds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Reds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The division rival Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds are set to renew hostilities on Tuesday when they meet at Great<\/st1:PlaceName> American<\/st1:PlaceName> Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Ian Snell in this game. Snell has a 5-10 record and a 5.77 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be ace Aaron Harang who starts for the Reds. Righthander Harang is 4-14 with a 5.43 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Reds listed as 160-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates were shut out 7-0 by the Brewers last time out, as +230 underdogs at home. The seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jeff Karstens gave up three runs over 6 1-3 innings to suffer the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joey Votto went 4-for-4 with four RBIs as the Reds completed a three-game sweep of the Giants in a 9-3 rout on Sunday. The Reds won that game as -120 favorites, and the 12 runs made it OVER the day’s posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Bronson Arroyo drove in two runs in three trips to the plate. Arroyo improved to 13-10 with the victory, allowing two runs off 10 hits over seven innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 10 straight games.
Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 57-79 SU
Cincinnati: 61-76 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 5-5
Before playing Cincinnati are 5-5
After playing Milwaukee are 2-8
After a loss are 1-9<\/p>\n

Cincinnati most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 2-8
Before playing Pittsburgh are 5-5
After playing San Francisco are 7-3
After a win are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Pittsburgh’s last 10 games when playing on the road against Cincinnati
The total has gone UNDER in 16 of Pittsburgh’s last 24 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games when playing Cincinnati
Pittsburgh is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Cincinnati’s last 5 games at home
Cincinnati is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Cincinnati’s last 10 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cincinnati’s last 6 games when playing Pittsburgh<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, September 3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The division rival Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds are set to renew hostilities on Tuesday when they meet at Great American Ball Park. The Pirates will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Ian Snell in this game. Snell has a 5-10 record and a 5.77 ERA this season. Meanwhile, it’ll be ace … Continue reading Pirates-Reds 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-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","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=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}