{"id":2008,"date":"2008-09-17T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/brewers-cubs-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T11:23:00","slug":"brewers-cubs-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/brewers-cubs-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers-Cubs Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Brewers will give the ball to ace starter Ben Sheets in this one. Righthander Sheets is 13-8 this season with a 2.97 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs will counter Sheets with Jason Marquis. Righthander Marquis has a 4.36 ERA to go along with a 10-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 120-moneyline favorites versus the Brewers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aramis Ramirez went 3-for-4 with two runs batted in, as the Cubs edged the Brewers 5-4 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as +105 home underdogs as the game played over the 8.5-run total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alfonso Soriano was 2-for-4 with a solo shot for the Cubs, while Ryan Dempster gave up two runs over six innings to get the victory for Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Prince Fielder went 3-for-5 with two homers and three RBIs for Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as losing pitcher C.C. Sabathia allowed four runs over seven innings for the Brewers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 5 straight games.
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 83-68 SU
Chicago: 91-58 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Milwaukee most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing Chi Cubs are 3-7
After playing Chi Cubs are 4-6
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 3-7
Before playing Milwaukee are 6-4
After playing Milwaukee are 5-5
After a win are 8-2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Milwaukee is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games when playing Chi Cubs
Milwaukee is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Milwaukee is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games
Chi Cubs are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games
Chi Cubs are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing Milwaukee
Chi Cubs are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, September 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at Wrigley Field. The Brewers will give the ball to ace starter Ben Sheets in this one. Righthander Sheets is 13-8 this season with a 2.97 ERA. The Cubs will counter Sheets with Jason Marquis. Righthander … Continue reading Brewers-Cubs 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-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","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=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}