{"id":4976,"date":"2009-07-24T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/mets-astros-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-24T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:14:00","slug":"mets-astros-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/mets-astros-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets-Astros Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Mets and the Houston Astros will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Minute<\/st2:PlaceName> Maid<\/st2:PlaceName> Park<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets will give the ball to ace starter Johan<\/st1:GivenName> Santana<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this one. Lefthander<\/st1:GivenName> Santana<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 11-7 this season with a 2.92 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Astros will be Mike<\/st1:GivenName> Hampton<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. The lefthander has a 4.63 ERA to go along with a 5-7 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Mets listed as 130-moneyline favorites versus the Astros, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets fell 3-1 to the Nationals in the series rubber match on Wednesday, as +105 underdogs. The team’s played UNDER the night’s posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Mike<\/st1:GivenName> Pelfrey<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up six hits and three runs over seven innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros scored twice in the bottom of the ninth inning as they defeated the Cardinals 4-3 in a series sweep on Wednesday. The Astros won that game as +105 underdogs, while the seven runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (7). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Miguel<\/st1:GivenName> Tejada<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> drove in the winning run to lift the Astros to a three-game sweep. Jose<\/st1:GivenName> Valverde<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> tossed the ninth inning to earn the victory in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> has lost 2 straight games.
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>: 44-50 <\/font>SU<\/st1:GivenName>
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>: 49-46 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Houston are 4-6
After playing Washington are 6-4
After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing NY Mets are 4-6
After playing St. Louis are 6-4
After a win are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of NY Mets’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of NY Mets’s last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of NY Mets’s last 7 games when playing Houston
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of NY Mets’s last 9 games when playing on the road against Houston
Houston is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games at home
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against NY Mets
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games
Houston is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> home to NY Mets, Saturday, July 25<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New York Mets and the Houston Astros will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Minute Maid Park. The Mets will give the ball to ace starter Johan Santana in this one. Lefthander Santana is 11-7 this season with a 2.92 ERA. Starting this game for the … Continue reading Mets-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-4976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976","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=4976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}