{"id":2012,"date":"2008-09-18T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/phillies-braves-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T06:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T11:59:00","slug":"phillies-braves-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/phillies-braves-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies-Braves Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Philadelphia Phillies will be trying to extend a winning streak on Thursday when they take on the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ace lefthander Cole Hamels will take the mound for the Phillies to start this game. Hamels is 12-9 this season with a 3.11 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hamels’s opponent in this one will be Mike Hampton. The Braves lefthander has a 5.34 ERA to go along with a 2-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Phillies listed as 210-moneyline favorites versus the Braves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
J.A. Happ tossed a three-hit shutout through six innings on Wednesday, as the Phillies defeated the Braves 6-1. The Phillies won the game as +115 underdogs, while the seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt Stairs homered and Carlos Ruiz drove in two runs, while Happ collected his first win for the Phillies. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Greg Norton drove in the lone run for the Braves, who were favored at -128 in that game. Jair Jurrjens gave up four runs off five hits in five innings to suffer the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 6 straight games.
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 85-67 SU
Atlanta: 67-85 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Philadelphia most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 3-7
Before playing Florida are 5-5
After playing Atlanta are 9-1
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing NY Mets are 6-4
After playing Philadelphia are 1-9
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Philadelphia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Philadelphia is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
Philadelphia is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games when playing Atlanta
Philadelphia is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Atlanta is 1-11 SU in its last 12 games when playing Philadelphia
Atlanta is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Philadelphia<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, September 19
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to NY Mets, Friday, September 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Philadelphia Phillies will be trying to extend a winning streak on Thursday when they take on the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. Ace lefthander Cole Hamels will take the mound for the Phillies to start this game. Hamels is 12-9 this season with a 3.11 ERA. Hamels’s opponent in this one will be Mike … Continue reading Phillies-Braves 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-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}