{"id":4111,"date":"2009-04-07T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pirates-cardinals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:20:00","slug":"pirates-cardinals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pirates-cardinals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Cardinals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Busch Stadium. <br \/>Righthander Ian Snell will take the mound for the Pirates to start this game. Snell is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. <br \/>It&#39;ll be Kyle Lohse toeing the rubber for the Cardinals in this contest. Righthander Lohse is 0-0 with a 0.00 ERA so far this season. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game&#39;s total has not yet been posted. <br \/>Jack Wilson&#39;s three-run double in the top of the ninth inning lifted the Pirates past the Cardinals 6-4 on Monday. <br \/>Pittsburgh cashed as +175 road underdogs as the teams played over the 8-run total set by oddsmakers. <br \/>Nyjer Morgan went 3-for-5 with two runs batted in for the Pirates, while John Grabow picked up the win in relief of starter Paul Maholm for Pittsburgh. <br \/>Ryan Ludwick was 2-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs for St. Louis, as Jason Motte was hit with the loss after surrendering four runs in the ninth inning for the Cardinals. <br \/>Team records:<br \/>Pittsburgh: 1-0 SU<br \/>St. Louis: 0-1 SU<br \/>Pittsburgh most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing St. Louis are 7-3<br \/>After playing St. Louis are 4-6<br \/>After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 2-8<br \/>Before playing Pittsburgh are 2-8<br \/>After playing Pittsburgh are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 2-8<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>Pittsburgh is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing St. Louis<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh&#39;s last 6 games when playing on the road against St. Louis<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh&#39;s last 5 games when playing St. Louis<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh&#39;s last 6 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of St. Louis&#39;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of St. Louis&#39;s last 5 games at home<br \/>St. Louis is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home<br \/>St. Louis is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>Next up:<br \/>St. Louis home to Pittsburgh, Wednesday, April 8<\/p>\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 Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Busch Stadium. Righthander Ian Snell will take the mound for the Pirates to start this game. Snell is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. It&#39;ll be Kyle Lohse toeing the rubber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pirates-cardinals-lines-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirates-Cardinals Lines Preview<\/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-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","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=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}