{"id":4980,"date":"2009-07-24T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/pirates-diamondbacks-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-24T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:48:00","slug":"pirates-diamondbacks-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/pirates-diamondbacks-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Diamondbacks Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Arizona Diamondbacks will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Chase<\/st2:GivenName> Field<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Duke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Pirates on this day. Lefthander Duke is 8-9 this season with a 3.38 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Diamondbacks will be Yusmeiro Petit. The righthander has a 6.81 ERA to go along with a 0-4 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Diamondbacks listed as 115-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Diamondbacks scored five runs in the eighth inning and earned an 11-4 victory over the Pirates on Thursday, as -210 favorites. That game’s 15 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Justin<\/st2:GivenName> Upton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-4 at the plate with a two-run homer and finished with three RBIs. Juan<\/st2:GivenName> Gutierrez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> pitched one inning of relief and earned the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Garrett<\/st2:GivenName> Jones<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> led the Pirates with three hits and two RBIs. Evan<\/st2:GivenName> Meek<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered two runs in relief and was tagged with the loss. Oddsmakers had the Pirates as +190 underdogs in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 42-53 SU
Arizona: 41-55 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Arizona are 5-5
After playing Arizona are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Arizona most recently:
When playing on Friday are 2-8
Before playing Pittsburgh are 4-6
After playing Pittsburgh are 5-5
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Pittsburgh is 5-10 SU in its last 15 games
Pittsburgh is 7-15 SU in its last 22 games when playing Arizona
Pittsburgh is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Arizona
Pittsburgh is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Arizona is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
Arizona is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home
Arizona is 15-7 SU in its last 22 games when playing Pittsburgh<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, July 25<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Arizona Diamondbacks will both be trying to pick up a win on Friday when they battle at Chase Field. Zach Duke will be the starting pitcher for the Pirates on this day. Lefthander Duke is 8-9 this season with a 3.38 ERA. Starting this game for the Diamondbacks will be … Continue reading Pirates-Diamondbacks 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-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","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=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}