{"id":4396,"date":"2009-05-10T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/braves-phillies-lines-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-05-10T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:14:00","slug":"braves-phillies-lines-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/braves-phillies-lines-preview-3\/","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 Sunday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kenshin<\/st2:GivenName> Kawakami<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Braves on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Kawakami<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 1-4 this season with a 6.41 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Brett<\/st2:GivenName> Myers<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Phillies in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Myers<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-2 with a 5.35 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Phillies listed as 145-moneyline favorites versus the Braves, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Javier<\/st2:GivenName> Vazquez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> pitched neatly into the eighth inning, Yunel<\/st2:GivenName> Escobar<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Brian<\/st2:GivenName> McCann hit two-run homers and the Braves beat the Phillies 6-2 on Saturday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Braves won as -102 favorites, while the final score played UNDER the day’s posted total of 9.5. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joe<\/st2:GivenName> Blanton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> took the loss for the -108 favored Phillies after giving up six runs and eight hits in eight innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 14-16 SU
Philadelphia: 15-13 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing NY Mets are 3-7
After playing Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 5-5
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 5-5
Before playing LA Dodgers are 7-3
After playing Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Atlanta is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games on the road
Atlanta is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Philadelphia
Atlanta is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Philadelphia
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Atlanta’s last 10 games when playing Philadelphia
Philadelphia is 18-7 SU in its last 25 games when playing Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Philadelphia’s last 10 games when playing Atlanta
Philadelphia is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Atlanta
Philadelphia is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing Atlanta<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at NY Mets, Monday, May 11
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to LA Dodgers, Tuesday, May 12<\/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 Sunday in a battle of division rivals. Kenshin Kawakami will be the starting pitcher for the Braves on this day. Righthander Kawakami is 1-4 this season with a 6.41 ERA. It’ll be Brett Myers toeing the rubber for … 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-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","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=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}