{"id":4867,"date":"2009-07-16T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/cubs-nationals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:05:00","slug":"cubs-nationals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/cubs-nationals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs-Nationals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago Cubs and the Washington Nationals will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at <\/span>Nationals<\/span><\/st1:placename> <\/span>Park<\/span><\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Righthander Rich Harden will take the mound for the Cubs to start this game. Harden is 5-6 this season with a 5.59 ERA.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

It’ll be John Lannan toeing the rubber for the Nationals in this contest. Lefthander Lannan is 6-6 with a 3.70 ERA so far this season.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Nationals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The Cubs lost to <\/span>St. Louis<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> 4-2 as a +100 underdog in Game 2 of a doubleheader on Sunday. The six runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5).<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Milton Bradley was 2-3 with an RBI for <\/span>Chicago<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and Randy Wells surrendered four runs on seven hits over seven innings to take the loss.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The Nationals lost to <\/span>Houston<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> 5-0 as a +100 underdog on Sunday. The five runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9).<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Jordan Zimmermann took the loss for <\/span>Washington<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:state> after allowing three earned runs on five hits in 6 1-3 innings.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Team records:
<\/span>Chicago<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city>: 43-43 SU
Washington: 26-61 SU<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing Washington are 6-4
After playing St. Louis are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Washington most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 2-8
Before playing Chi Cubs are 6-4
After playing Houston are 3-7
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi Cubs’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi Cubs’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Chi Cubs’s last 9 games when playing Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi Cubs’s last 7 games <\/span>
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 5 games when playing at home against Chi Cubs
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington’s last 5 games <\/span>
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Washington’s last 9 games when playing Chi Cubs
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Washington’s last 7 games at home<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Next up:
<\/span>Washington<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:state> home to Chi Cubs, Friday, July 17<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Chicago Cubs and the Washington Nationals will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Nationals Park. Righthander Rich Harden will take the mound for the Cubs to start this game. Harden is 5-6 this season with a 5.59 ERA. It’ll be John Lannan toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Cubs-Nationals 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-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}