{"id":4649,"date":"2009-06-19T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/pirates-rockies-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-19T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:29:00","slug":"pirates-rockies-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/pirates-rockies-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Rockies Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Colorado Rockies will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Coors Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will give the ball to starter Ross<\/st2:GivenName> Ohlendorf<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Ohlendorf<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 6-5 this season with a 4.56 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ohlendorf’s opponent in this one will be Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Marquis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Rockies<\/st1:place> righthander has a 3.77 ERA to go along with a 8-4 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rockies<\/st1:place> 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 dropped Thursday’s rubber match 5-1 to the Twins, as +140 underdogs. That game’s six runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st2:GivenName> LaRoche<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in the lone run for the Pirates. Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Duke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered seven hits and three runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Clint<\/st2:GivenName> Barmes<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a two-run homer and the Rockies<\/st1:place> held on to defeat the Rays<\/st2:Sn> 4-3 in Thursday’s series rubber match, as +105 underdogs. That game’s seven runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Todd<\/st2:GivenName> Helton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Gonzalez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> also went deep. Ubaldo<\/st2:GivenName> Jimenez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed 6 2-3 innings for the win, allowing six hits and one run. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 31-35 SU
Colorado: 33-33 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Colorado are 3-7
After playing Minnesota are 3-7
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Colorado most recently:
When playing on Friday are 7-3
Before playing Pittsburgh are 5-5
After playing Tampa Bay are 7-3
After a win are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Colorado
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 7 games when playing Colorado
Pittsburgh is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Colorado
Pittsburgh is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games on the road
Colorado is 13-1 SU in its last 14 games
Colorado is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
Colorado is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Colorado’s last 5 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, June 20<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Colorado Rockies will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Coors Field. The Pirates will give the ball to starter Ross Ohlendorf in this one. Righthander Ohlendorf is 6-5 this season with a 4.56 ERA. Ohlendorf’s opponent in this one will be Jason … Continue reading Pirates-Rockies 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-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","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=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}