{"id":4919,"date":"2009-07-21T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/mets-nationals-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T13:07:00","slug":"mets-nationals-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/mets-nationals-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets-Nationals Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Mets and the Washington Nationals will meet on the field at Nationals<\/st2:PlaceName> Park<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place> on Tuesday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets will give the ball to starter Oliver<\/st1:GivenName> Perez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this one. Lefthander<\/st1:GivenName> Perez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 2-2 this season with a 7.99 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Perez<\/st1:Sn>‘s opponent in this one will be John<\/st1:GivenName> Lannan<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. The Nationals lefthander has a 3.64 ERA to go along with a 6-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nationals listed as 142-moneyline favorites versus the Mets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jeff<\/st1:GivenName> Francoeur<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went 3-for-4 with a homer and two runs batted in to lead the Mets over the Nationals 6-2 on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> won as +120 road underdogs as the game played UNDER the 9-run total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David<\/st1:GivenName> Murphy<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> was 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Mets, while Livan<\/st1:GivenName> Hernandez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> allowed two runs over seven innings to get the win for New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Josh<\/st1:GivenName> Bard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> went 2-for-4 with two RBIs for Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>, as J.D.<\/st1:GivenName> Martin<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> took the loss after getting rocked for five runs over four innings for the Nationals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn> has lost 6 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>: 44-48 <\/font>SU<\/st1:GivenName>
Washington<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>: 26-66 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 3-7
Before playing Washington are 5-5
After playing Washington are 8-2
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Washington most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 4-6
Before playing NY Mets are 2-8
After playing NY Mets are 2-8
After a loss are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of NY Mets’s last 8 games when playing Washington
NY Mets are 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Washington
NY Mets are 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of NY Mets’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Washington’s last 8 games when playing NY Mets
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Washington’s last 5 games when playing at home against NY Mets
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Washington’s last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn> home to NY Mets, Wednesday, July 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New York Mets and the Washington Nationals will meet on the field at Nationals Park on Tuesday in a battle of division rivals. The Mets will give the ball to starter Oliver Perez in this one. Lefthander Perez is 2-2 this season with a 7.99 ERA. Perez‘s opponent in this one will be John … Continue reading Mets-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-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","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=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}