{"id":4876,"date":"2009-07-17T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/giants-pirates-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:02:00","slug":"giants-pirates-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/giants-pirates-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants-Pirates Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Friday when they take on the San Francisco Giants at PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants will give the ball to starter Barry<\/st2:GivenName> Zito<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Zito<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 5-9 this season with a 5.01 ERA.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Pirates will be ace Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Maholm<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The lefthander has a 4.60 ERA to go along with a 6-4 record this season.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Giants listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants lost to San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 10-4 as a -130 favorite on Sunday. The 14 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8).<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
John<\/st2:GivenName> Bowker<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> homered and drove in two runs for San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Barry<\/st2:GivenName> Zito<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was ripped for nine runs on 10 hits in 4 1-3 innings.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates lost to Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 5-2 as a +210 underdog on Sunday. The seven runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (9.5).<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Freddy Sanchez<\/st2:Sn> was 2-4 with an RBI for Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Virgil<\/st2:GivenName> Vasquez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed five runs on four hits in only 1 1-3 innings.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 49-39 SU
Pittsburgh: 38-50 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
San Francisco most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Pittsburgh are 2-8
After playing San Diego are 4-6
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing San Francisco are 7-3
After playing Philadelphia are 4-6
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 7 games when playing Pittsburgh
San Francisco is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Francisco’s last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of San Francisco’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Pittsburgh’s last 8 games at home
Pittsburgh is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against San Francisco
Pittsburgh is 14-4 SU in its last 18 games when playing San Francisco
The total has gone UNDER in 13 of Pittsburgh’s last 17 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, July 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Friday when they take on the San Francisco Giants at PNC Park. The Giants will give the ball to starter Barry Zito in this one. Lefthander Zito is 5-9 this season with a 5.01 ERA. Starting this game for the Pirates will be … Continue reading Giants-Pirates 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-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","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=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}