{"id":4736,"date":"2009-06-25T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/cardinals-mets-odds-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:28:00","slug":"cardinals-mets-odds-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/cardinals-mets-odds-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Mets Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Citi Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander Chris Carpenter will take the mound for the Cardinals to start this game. Carpenter is 5-1 this season with a 1.53 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Mets will be ace Johan<\/st2:GivenName> Santana<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The lefthander has a 3.22 ERA to go along with a 8-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cardinals listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Mets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets belted out 16 hits as they blanked the Cardinals 11-0 last time out, as +105 underdogs. The game’s 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Church<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-4 at the plate with two RBIs for the Mets. Fernando<\/st2:GivenName> Nieve<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed a three-hit shutout over six innings for the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brad<\/st2:GivenName> Thompson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed eight hits and five runs over five innings in the loss. Oddsmakers had the Cardinals as -115 favorites in the contest. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 40-33 SU
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 36-34 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 3-7
Before playing Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> are 6-3
After playing NY Mets are 6-4
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing NY Yankees are 4-6
After playing St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> are 4-6
After a win are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
St. Louis is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing NY Mets
St. Louis is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
St. Louis is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
St. Louis is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against NY Mets
NY Mets are 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against St. Louis
NY Mets are 15-8 SU in its last 23 games at home
NY Mets are 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing St. Louis<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, June 26
NY Mets home to NY Yankees, Friday, June 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Citi Field. Righthander Chris Carpenter will take the mound for the Cardinals to start this game. Carpenter is 5-1 this season with a 1.53 ERA. Starting this game for the Mets … Continue reading Cardinals-Mets Odds 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-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","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=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}