{"id":4384,"date":"2009-05-08T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cubs-brewers-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T12:35:00","slug":"cubs-brewers-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cubs-brewers-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs-Brewers Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Miller<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:middlename>Randy<\/st2:middlename> <st2:Sn>Wells<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Cubs to start this game. <st2:Sn>Wells<\/st2:Sn> is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Starting this game for the Brewers will be <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>David<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Bush<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The righthander has a 3.94 ERA to go along with a 1-0 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Brewers listed as 123-moneyline favorites versus the Cubs, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cubs sealed a victory on Thursday with an 8-5 victory over Astros. The Cubs 13 runs made it OVER the posted total of 10. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Alfonso<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Soriano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted two home runs and drove in three runs to lead the Cubs. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Ted<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Lilly<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> earned the victory, allowing four hits and two runs. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Brewers were defeated 6-5 by the Reds last time out, as -130 favorites. That game&#8217;s 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Prince Fielder went 3-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs for the Brewers. Braden Looper gave up five runs off eight hits in suffering the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place><st2:Sn>Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st2:Sn><st1:City><st1:place>Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>: 16-12 SU<br \/>Milwaukee: 16-13 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Chicago most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Milwaukee are 6-4<br \/>After playing Houston are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee most recently:<br \/>When playing on Friday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing Chi Cubs are 4-6<br \/>After playing Cincinnati are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 5-5<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Chi Cubs are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games <br \/>Chi Cubs are 8-3 SU in their last 11 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 13 of Chi Cubs&#8217;s last 18 games when playing on the road against Milwaukee<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 9 of Chi Cubs&#8217;s last 13 games when playing Milwaukee<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Milwaukee&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>Milwaukee is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Milwaukee is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 13 of Milwaukee&#8217;s last 18 games when playing at home against Chi Cubs<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Chi Cubs, Saturday, May 9<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\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 Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Miller Park. Righthander Randy Wells will take the mound for the Cubs to start this game. Wells is 0-0 this season with a 0.00 ERA. Starting this game for the Brewers will be David Bush. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cubs-brewers-lines-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cubs-Brewers 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-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","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=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}