{"id":4851,"date":"2009-07-09T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/nationals-astros-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T14:05:00","slug":"nationals-astros-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/nationals-astros-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals-Astros Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Minute<\/st2:PlaceName> Maid<\/st2:PlaceName> Park<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nationals will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander John<\/st1:GivenName> Lannan<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this game. Lannan has a 6-5 record and a 3.45 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros will counter Lannan with Russ<\/st1:GivenName> Ortiz<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Ortiz<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> has a 4.84 ERA to go along with a 2-3 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
The Nationals were swept away by the Rockies<\/st2:place> in a three-game series by falling 10-4 in the series finale on Wednesday, as +160 underdogs. That game’s 14 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (10.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Anderson Hernandez drove in two runs in a losing effort. Ross<\/st1:GivenName> Detwiler<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> allowed eight hits and six runs over four innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros shut down the Pirates 5-0 in Wednesday’s rubber match, as -170 favorites. The game’s five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lance<\/st1:GivenName> Berkman<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went 2-for-4 with two RBIs in leading the way. Wandy Rodriguez<\/st1:Sn> tossed a five-hit complete-game with 11 strikeouts. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>: 24-58 <\/font>SU<\/st1:GivenName>
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>: 41-42 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Washington most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Houston are 5-5
After playing Colorado are 2-8
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing Washington are 7-3
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 4 of Washington’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington’s last 5 games when playing Houston
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Washington’s last 13 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Houston
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games at home
Houston is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston’s last 6 games when playing at home against Washington<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, July 10<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Minute Maid Park. The Nationals will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander John Lannan in this game. Lannan has a 6-5 record and a 3.45 ERA this season. The Astros will counter Lannan … Continue reading Nationals-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-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","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=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}