{"id":4392,"date":"2009-05-09T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/braves-phillies-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T11:37:00","slug":"braves-phillies-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/braves-phillies-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves-Phillies Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies will meet on the field at Citizens<\/st1:PlaceName> Bank<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Braves will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Javier<\/st2:GivenName> Vazquez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Vazquez has a 2-3 record and a 4.19 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Phillies will counter Vazquez with Joe<\/st2:GivenName> Blanton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Blanton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 6.84 ERA to go along with a 1-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Phillies listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Braves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Phillies got out to a six-run lead en route to a 10-6 win over the Braves on Friday, as -175 favorites. That game’s 16 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jayson<\/st2:GivenName> Werth<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a two-run homer for the Phillies, while Chase<\/st2:GivenName> Utley<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Chris<\/st2:GivenName> Coste<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> also went deep. Cole<\/st2:GivenName> Hamels<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed three hits and two runs over six innings in the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Casey<\/st2:GivenName> Kotchman<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a three-run homer for the Braves, who were pegged as +155 underdogs. Jo-Jo<\/st2:GivenName> Reyes<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up eight runs over five innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 13-16 SU
Philadelphia: 15-12 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Philadelphia are 6-4
After playing Philadelphia are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Philadelphia most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Atlanta are 6-4
After playing Atlanta are 5-5
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Atlanta is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Atlanta is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Philadelphia
Atlanta is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Philadelphia
Atlanta is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games
Philadelphia is 15-5 SU in its last 20 games when playing Atlanta
Philadelphia is 9-4 SU in its last 13 games
Philadelphia is 17-8 SU in its last 25 games at home
Philadelphia is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Atlanta<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, May 10<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies will meet on the field at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday in a battle of division rivals. The Braves will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Javier Vazquez in this game. Vazquez has a 2-3 record and a 4.19 ERA this season. The Phillies will counter … Continue reading Braves-Phillies 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-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","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=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}