{"id":4315,"date":"2009-05-02T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/marlins-cubs-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-02T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:49:00","slug":"marlins-cubs-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/marlins-cubs-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins-Cubs Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Florida Marlins and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Marlins will give the ball to starter Anibal<\/st2:GivenName> Sanchez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Sanchez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 1-2 this season with a 4.13 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Ted<\/st2:GivenName> Lilly<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Cubs in this contest. Lefthander Lilly is 2-2 with a 3.80 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 150-moneyline favorites versus the Marlins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs rallied with six runs in the late innings to defeat the Marlins 8-6 on Friday, as -280 favorites. That game’s 14 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Theriot<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a grand slam home run in the sixth-inning to power the Cubs. David<\/st2:GivenName> Patton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> completed two innings of relief for the win, and Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Gregg<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> notched his second save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jorge<\/st2:GivenName> Cantu<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in two runs for the Marlins, who were +240 underdogs. Burke<\/st2:GivenName> Badenhop<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up four runs in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 14-9 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 11-11 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Chi Cubs are 6-4
After playing Chi Cubs are 7-3
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Florida are 4-6
After playing Florida are 6-4
After a win are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Florida is 14-5 SU in their last 19 games when playing Chi Cubs
Florida is 7-3 SU in their last 10 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
Florida is 10-5 SU in its last 15 games on the road
Florida is 2-4 SU in their last 6 games when playing Chi Cubs
Chi Cubs are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games when playing Florida
Chi Cubs are 3-7 SU in their last 10 games
Chi Cubs are 3-7 SU in their last 10 games when playing at home against Florida
Chi Cubs are 5-14 SU in their last 19 games when playing Florida<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, May 3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Florida Marlins and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Wrigley Field. The Marlins will give the ball to starter Anibal Sanchez in this one. Righthander Sanchez is 1-2 this season with a 4.13 ERA. It’ll be Ted Lilly toeing the rubber for the Cubs … Continue reading Marlins-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-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","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=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}