{"id":4989,"date":"2009-07-25T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/cardinals-phillies-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-25T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T12:57:00","slug":"cardinals-phillies-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/cardinals-phillies-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Phillies Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Citizens<\/st1:PlaceName> Bank<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Kyle<\/st2:middlename> Lohse<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Cardinals to start this game. Lohse is 4-6 this season with a 4.21 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Rodrigo<\/st2:GivenName> Lopez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> who starts for the Phillies. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Lopez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-0 with a 2.60 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Phillies listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Cardinals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cardinals exploded for four runs in the sixth inning as they defeated the Phillies 8-1 on Friday, as +125 underdogs. The nine runs went as a PUSH against the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Rick<\/st2:GivenName> Ankiel<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-4 at the plate and drove in three runs to lift the Cardinals. Joel<\/st2:GivenName> Pineiro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> improved to 9-9 with six scoreless innings on the mound. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
J.A.<\/st2:GivenName> Happ<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up 10 hits and five runs in suffering his first loss. Oddsmakers had the Phillies as -145 favorites in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 53-46 SU
Philadelphia: 54-40 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Philadelphia are 4-6
After playing Philadelphia are 4-6
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

Philadelphia most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing St. Louis are 6-4
After playing St. Louis are 7-3
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, July 26<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Citizens Bank Park. Righthander Kyle Lohse will take the mound for the Cardinals to start this game. Lohse is 4-6 this season with a 4.21 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be Rodrigo Lopez who starts for … Continue reading Cardinals-Phillies 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-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","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=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}