{"id":1893,"date":"2008-09-08T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/pirates-astros-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T11:36:00","slug":"pirates-astros-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/pirates-astros-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Astros Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Houston Astros will meet on the field at Minute<\/st1:PlaceName> Maid<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Monday in a battle of division rivals. <\/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 6-10 record and a 5.59 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Astros will be Brandon Backe. The righthander has a 5.44 ERA to go along with a 9-12 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates lost to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 11-6 as a +115 underdog on Sunday. The 17 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason Michaels drove in a pair of runs for the Pirates and Freddy Sanchez scored two runs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros defeated Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 7-2 as a +125 underdog on Sunday. The nine runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jose Castillo was 3-3 with a pair of RBI for Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Mark Loretta was 3-4 with an RBI and a run scored in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 60-82 SU
Houston: 76-67 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Monday are 7-3
Before playing Houston are 6-4
After playing San Francisco are 6-4
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Pittsburgh are 2-8
After playing Colorado are 8-2
After a win are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Pittsburgh is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Houston
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Houston
Houston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Houston is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Houston’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, September 9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Houston Astros will meet on the field at Minute Maid Park on Monday in a battle of division rivals. The Pirates will pin their hopes on the pitching of ace righthander Ian Snell in this game. Snell has a 6-10 record and a 5.59 ERA this season. Starting this game … Continue reading Pirates-Astros Pointspread Pointers<\/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-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}