{"id":4615,"date":"2009-06-17T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/pirates-twins-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:09:00","slug":"pirates-twins-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/pirates-twins-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Twins Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Minnesota Twins will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at The Metrodome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will trot Ian<\/st2:GivenName> Snell<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> out to the mound in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Snell<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 1-7 record and a 5.25 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Twins will be ace Francisco<\/st2:GivenName> Liriano<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The lefthander has a 5.99 ERA to go along with a 2-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Twins listed as 190-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Joe<\/st2:GivenName> Mauer<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 4-for-4 with a run batted in, as the Twins cruised past the Pirates 8-2 on Tuesday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as -155 home favorites as the game played OVER the 9-run total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Glen<\/st2:GivenName> Perkins<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up two runs over six innings to get the victory for the Twins, who banged out 16 hits in the payday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Nyjer<\/st2:GivenName> Morgan<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a two-run dinger for Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Maholm<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was roughed up for eight runs over five innings to take the loss for the Pirates. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 30-34 SU
Minnesota: 33-33 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 4-6
Before playing Minnesota are 4-6
After playing Minnesota are 3-7
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Minnesota most recently:
When playing on Wednesday are 5-5
Before playing Pittsburgh are 5-5
After playing Pittsburgh are 8-2
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Pittsburgh is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
Pittsburgh is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games on the road
Pittsburgh is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Pittsburgh is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games when playing Minnesota
Minnesota is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Pittsburgh
Minnesota is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games at home
Minnesota is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
Minnesota is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, June 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Minnesota Twins will both be gunning for a victory on Wednesday when they meet at The Metrodome. The Pirates will trot Ian Snell out to the mound in this one. Righthander Snell has a 1-7 record and a 5.25 ERA this season. Starting this game for the Twins will be … Continue reading Pirates-Twins 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-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}