{"id":2004,"date":"2008-09-16T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/astros-marlins-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:24:00","slug":"astros-marlins-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/astros-marlins-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros-Marlins Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Astros and the Florida Marlins will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Dolphin Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace righthander Roy Oswalt will take the mound for the Astros to start this game. Oswalt is 15-9 this season with a 3.54 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Marlins will counter Oswalt with Chris Volstad. Righthander Volstad has a 3.41 ERA to go along with a 3-3 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Astros listed as 160-moneyline favorites versus the Marlins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros were almost no-hit by Ted Lilly on Monday afternoon in a 6-1 loss to the Cubs. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs had been pegged at -129 in that contest, which took place in Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. The combined score fell UNDER the day’s posted total (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Marlins put up seven runs in the eighth inning on Sunday afternoon en route to an 8-7 win over the Nationals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Marlins rallied to the win as -145 home favorites in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the day’s posted total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 80-69 SU
Florida: 77-72 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 5-5
Before playing Florida are 5-5
After playing Chi Cubs are 4-6
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Florida most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 5-5
Before playing Houston are 4-6
After playing Washington are 7-3
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Florida
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Houston is 14-3 SU in its last 17 games
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Houston’s last 18 games
Florida is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Florida’s last 5 games when playing at home against Houston
Florida is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Florida’s last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, September 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Astros and the Florida Marlins will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Dolphin Stadium. Ace righthander Roy Oswalt will take the mound for the Astros to start this game. Oswalt is 15-9 this season with a 3.54 ERA. The Marlins will counter Oswalt with Chris … Continue reading Astros-Marlins 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-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","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=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}