{"id":4923,"date":"2009-07-21T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/cardinals-astros-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T13:52:00","slug":"cardinals-astros-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/cardinals-astros-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Astros Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Minute<\/st1:PlaceName> Maid<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals will give the ball to starter Todd<\/st2:GivenName> Wellemeyer<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Wellemeyer<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 7-7 this season with a 5.58 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Wandy Rodriguez toeing the rubber for the Astros in this contest. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Rodriguez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 9-6 with a 2.81 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Astros listed as 150-moneyline favorites versus the Cardinals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Lee<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a three-run homer to lift the Astros over the Cardinals 3-2 on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as a -105 home pick ’em, as the teams played UNDER the 9-run total listed by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Moehler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed two runs over 6 1-3 innings to get the win for the Astros, while Jose<\/st2:GivenName> Valverde<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> picked up the save for Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Yadier<\/st2:GivenName> Molina<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in both runs for St.Louis, as Kyle<\/st2:GivenName> Lohse<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up three runs over seven innings to take the loss for the Cardinals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 51-44 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 47-46 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Houston are 6-4
After playing Houston are 7-3
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of St. Louis’s last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis’s last 5 games when playing Houston
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of St. Louis’s last 8 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of St. Louis’s last 13 games when playing on the road against Houston
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Houston’s last 6 games
Houston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against St. Louis
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing St. Louis<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, July 22<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Minute Maid Park. The Cardinals will give the ball to starter Todd Wellemeyer in this one. Righthander Wellemeyer is 7-7 this season with a 5.58 ERA. It’ll be Wandy Rodriguez toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Cardinals-Astros Odds 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-4923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923","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=4923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}