{"id":4536,"date":"2009-06-11T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/pirates-braves-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:08:00","slug":"pirates-braves-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/pirates-braves-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Braves Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Turner Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will give the ball to ace starter Paul<\/st1:GivenName> Maholm<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this one. Lefthander<\/st1:GivenName> Maholm<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 4-2 this season with a 3.94 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Javier<\/st1:GivenName> Vazquez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> who starts for the Braves. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Vazquez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 4-5 with a 3.54 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Braves listed as 175-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates snapped a three-game losing skid with a 3-2 victory over the Braves on Wednesday, as +200 underdogs. The game’s five runs went UNDER the night’s posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st1:GivenName> LaRoche<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the Pirates with two runs batted in, John<\/st1:GivenName> Grabow<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> collected the win in relief, and Matt<\/st1:GivenName> Capps<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> closed out the game with his 14th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brian<\/st1:GivenName> McCann<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went 2-for-4 at the plate with the Braves, who had been -220 favorites. Jair<\/st1:GivenName> Jurrjens<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> allowed four hits and two runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 27-32 SU
Atlanta: 29-29 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 5-5
Before playing Detroit are 5-5
After playing Atlanta are 6-4
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 8-2
Before playing Baltimore are 6-4
After playing Pittsburgh are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games on the road
Pittsburgh is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
Pittsburgh is 8-17 SU in its last 25 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Atlanta’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Atlanta’s last 7 games
Atlanta is 17-8 SU in its last 25 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Detroit<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Friday, June<\/st1:GivenName> 12
Atlanta<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at Baltimore<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, June 12<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Turner Field. The Pirates will give the ball to ace starter Paul Maholm in this one. Lefthander Maholm is 4-2 this season with a 3.94 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be Javier Vazquez who starts for the … Continue reading Pirates-Braves 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-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","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=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}