{"id":4411,"date":"2009-05-12T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cardinals-pirates-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T11:46:00","slug":"cardinals-pirates-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/cardinals-pirates-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Pirates Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Todd<\/st2:GivenName> Wellemeyer<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Wellemeyer has a 3-2 record and a 4.75 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Duke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Pirates in this contest. Lefthander Duke is 3-3 with a 2.79 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 120-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals defeated Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 8-7 as a +100 underdog on Sunday. The 15 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chris<\/st2:GivenName> Duncan<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in three runs for the Cardinals and Albert<\/st2:GivenName> Pujols<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a solo home run in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates lost to the Mets 8-4 as a +150 underdog on Sunday. The 12 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Robinzon<\/st2:GivenName> Diaz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 3-4 with an RBI for Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Nate<\/st2:GivenName> McLouth<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a two-run home run. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 8 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 20-12 SU
Pittsburgh: 12-19 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 3-7
Before playing Pittsburgh are 2-8
After playing Cincinnati are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing St. Louis are 6-4
After playing NY Mets are 3-7
After a loss are 1-9<\/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 on the road against Pittsburgh
St. Louis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 4 of St. Louis’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of St. Louis’s last 6 games
Pittsburgh is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against St. Louis
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing at home against St. Louis
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games at home
Pittsburgh is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing St. Louis<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, May 13<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at PNC Park. The Cardinals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Todd Wellemeyer in this game. Wellemeyer has a 3-2 record and a 4.75 ERA this season. It’ll be Zach … Continue reading Cardinals-Pirates 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-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","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=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}