{"id":4832,"date":"2009-07-07T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/pirates-astros-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-07T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T14:38:00","slug":"pirates-astros-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/pirates-astros-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Astros Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Houston Astros will meet on the field at Minute<\/st1:PlaceName> Maid<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> on Tuesday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will trot ace Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Maholm<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> out to the mound in this one. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Maholm<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 5-4 record and a 4.69 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Maholm’s opponent in this one will be Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Moehler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Astros righthander has a 5.64 ERA to go along with a 5-4 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Odds aren’t yet posted for this game, so check back later for the opening line and total. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miguel<\/st2:GivenName> Tejada<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-4 with two runs batted in, as the Astros dropped the Pirates 4-1 on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as -145 home favorites as the game played UNDER the 9-run total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Geoff<\/st2:GivenName> Blum<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> knocked in two runs for the Astros, while winning pitcher Mike<\/st2:GivenName> Hampton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up one run over seven innings for Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Robinzon<\/st2:GivenName> Diaz<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 2-for-3 with an RBI for Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as Virgil<\/st2:GivenName> Vasquez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed four runs over six innings to take the loss for the Pirates. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 37-46 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 40-41 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 4-6
Before playing Houston are 4-6
After playing Houston are 4-6
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 6-4
Before playing Pittsburgh are 4-6
After playing Pittsburgh are 5-5
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Pittsburgh’s last 12 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Houston
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games when playing Houston
Houston is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
Houston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Houston’s last 10 games at home
Houston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, July 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Houston Astros will meet on the field at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday in a battle of division rivals. The Pirates will trot ace Paul Maholm out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Maholm has a 5-4 record and a 4.69 ERA this season. Maholm’s opponent in this one … Continue reading Pirates-Astros 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-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","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=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}