{"id":4386,"date":"2009-05-08T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cardinals-reds-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T12:40:00","slug":"cardinals-reds-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cardinals-reds-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Reds Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Great<\/st1:PlaceName> American<\/st1:PlaceName> Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals will give the ball to starter Joel<\/st2:GivenName> Pineiro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Pineiro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 4-1 this season with a 3.24 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pineiro’s opponent in this one will be Johnny<\/st2:GivenName> Cueto<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Reds righthander has a 1.65 ERA to go along with a 2-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Reds listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Cardinals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals scored four runs in the fifth inning in Thursday’s 5-2 victory over the Pirates, as -185 favorites. The game’s seven runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jason<\/st2:GivenName> LaRue<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-4 with a solo home run for the Cardinals. Todd<\/st2:GivenName> Wellemeyer<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up four hits and two runs over seven innings for the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Reds earned a split of a two-game set at Great<\/st1:PlaceName> American<\/st1:PlaceName> Ball<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> by defeating the Brewers 6-5 on Thursday, as +110 underdogs. The 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jay<\/st2:GivenName> Bruce<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a solo home run for the Reds, while scoring twice in the victory. Micah Owings notched his second win of the season, and Francisco<\/st2:GivenName> Cordero<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> collected his eight save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 19-10 SU
Cincinnati: 15-13 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Cincinnati are 7-3
After playing Pittsburgh are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 4 of St. Louis’s last 5 games when playing Cincinnati
St. Louis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Cincinnati
St. Louis is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Cincinnati’s last 5 games when playing St. Louis
Cincinnati is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing St. Louis<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, May 9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Great American Ball Park. The Cardinals will give the ball to starter Joel Pineiro in this one. Righthander Pineiro is 4-1 this season with a 3.24 ERA. Pineiro’s opponent in this one … Continue reading Cardinals-Reds Odds 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-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","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=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}