{"id":1916,"date":"2008-09-11T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/brewers-phillies-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T11:56:00","slug":"brewers-phillies-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/brewers-phillies-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers-Phillies 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 Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Citizens<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Bank<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?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 Brewers will trot ace Ben Sheets out to the mound in this one. Righthander Sheets has a 13-7 record and a 2.82 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It&#8217;ll be Jamie Moyer toeing the rubber for the Phillies in this contest. Lefthander Moyer is 13-7 with a 3.64 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Brewers listed as 120-moneyline favorites versus the Phillies, 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\">The Brewers scored twice in the eighth inning to climb past the Reds 4-3 and avoid a sweep on Wednesday. The Brewers won that game as -280 favorites, while the seven runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (7). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">C.C. Sabathia had one hit at the plate, but earned a no-decision for the Brewers. Guillermo Mota got the win, and Salomon Torres closed out the ninth for his 27<sup>th<\/sup> save. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Phillies were defeated 7-3 by the Marlins last time out, as -155 favorites at home. The combined 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ryan Howard went deep for the Phillies in the loss. Brett Myers fell to 9-11 after giving up four runs over 7 1-3 innings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 83-63 SU<br \/>Philadelphia: 79-67 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Milwaukee most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Philadelphia are 5-5<br \/>After playing Cincinnati are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Milwaukee are 5-5<br \/>After playing Florida are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Milwaukee is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Milwaukee&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against Philadelphia<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 15 of Milwaukee&#8217;s last 21 games on the road<br \/>Milwaukee is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Philadelphia<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Philadelphia&#8217;s last 5 games when playing at home against Milwaukee<br \/>Philadelphia is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Milwaukee<br \/>Philadelphia is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games at home<br \/>Philadelphia is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Milwaukee<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, September 12<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 Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Citizens Bank Park. The Brewers will trot ace Ben Sheets out to the mound in this one. Righthander Sheets has a 13-7 record and a 2.82 ERA this season. It&#8217;ll be Jamie Moyer toeing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/brewers-phillies-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brewers-Phillies 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-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}