{"id":4265,"date":"2009-04-19T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/cardinals-cubs-lines-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T13:17:00","slug":"cardinals-cubs-lines-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/cardinals-cubs-lines-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Cubs Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs will meet on the field at Wrigley Field on Sunday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Todd<\/st2:GivenName> Wellemeyer<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Wellemeyer has a 1-1 record and a 4.50 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Wellemeyer’s opponent in this one will be Ted<\/st2:GivenName> Lilly<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Cubs lefthander has a 3.86 ERA to go along with a 2-0 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Cardinals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aramis<\/st2:GivenName> Ramirez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> homered to center in the 11th<\/sup> inning to give Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> a 7-5 win over St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Saturday afternoon. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs won as -132 home favorites, while the final score played OVER the day’s posted total of 9.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Ludwick<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had two hits and two RBIs for the +122 underdog Cards, while Dennys<\/st2:GivenName> Reyes<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 8-5 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 7-4 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing NY Mets are 6-4
After playing Chi Cubs are 1-9
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 7-3
Before playing Cincinnati are 7-3
After playing St. Louis are 10-0
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of St. Louis’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of St. Louis’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 6 of St. Louis’s last 8 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
St. Louis is 14-5 SU in its last 19 games
Chi Cubs are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing St. Louis
Chi Cubs are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against St. Louis
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Chi Cubs’s last 8 games when playing at home against St. Louis
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chi Cubs’s last 7 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to NY Mets, Tuesday, April 21
Chi Cubs home to Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, April 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs will meet on the field at Wrigley Field on Sunday in a battle of division rivals. The Cardinals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Todd Wellemeyer in this game. Wellemeyer has a 1-1 record and a 4.50 ERA this season. Wellemeyer’s opponent in this … Continue reading Cardinals-Cubs Lines Preview<\/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-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","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=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}