{"id":1908,"date":"2008-09-10T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/rockies-braves-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:11:00","slug":"rockies-braves-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/rockies-braves-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies-Braves Who Will Cover?"},"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 Colorado Rockies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. <?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 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Livan Hernandez in this game. Hernandez has a 11-11 record and a 6.16 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Braves will counter Hernandez with James Parr. Righthander Parr has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 1-0 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Braves listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place>, 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\">Taylor Buchholz&#8217;s balk in the bottom of the tenth inning brought home the winning run, as the Braves clipped the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> 5-4 on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as -115 home favorites as the teams pushed the 9-run total posted by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Casey Kotchman drove in two runs for the Braves, while Julian Tavarez picked up the win in relief of starter Jorge Campillo for <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Brad Hawpe hit a two-run blast for <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, as Buchholz took the loss after allowing the winning run in the 10<sup>th<\/sup>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 67-78 SU<br \/>Atlanta: 63-82 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Colorado most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 4-6<br \/>Before playing Atlanta are 5-5<br \/>After playing Atlanta are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Colorado are 4-6<br \/>After playing Colorado are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Colorado is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>Colorado is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Colorado is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Atlanta<br \/>Atlanta is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Colorado<br \/>Atlanta is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>Atlanta is 8-16 SU in its last 24 games at home<br \/>Atlanta is 7-15 SU in its last 22 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Thursday, September 11<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&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 Colorado Rockies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. The Rockies will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Livan Hernandez in this game. Hernandez has a 11-11 record and a 6.16 ERA this season. The Braves will counter Hernandez &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/rockies-braves-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockies-Braves Who Will Cover?<\/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-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}