{"id":5006,"date":"2009-07-26T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/mets-astros-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T11:02:00","slug":"mets-astros-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/mets-astros-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets-Astros Lines 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 Sunday when they battle at Minute<\/st2:PlaceName> Maid<\/st2:PlaceName> Park<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Livan<\/st1:middlename> Hernandez<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> will take the mound for the Mets to start this game. Hernandez<\/st1:Sn> is 6-5 this season with a 4.93 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hernandez<\/st1:Sn>‘s opponent in this one will be Brian<\/st1:GivenName> Moehler<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. The Astros righthander has a 4.92 ERA to go along with a 7-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Astros listed as 140-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> smacked a three-run homer and drove in four runs as the Mets crushed the Astros 10-3 as +130 underdogs on Saturday. The 13 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Luis<\/st1:GivenName> Castillo<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> had two hits with one RBI and two runs scored for the Mets. Jonathan<\/st1:GivenName> Niese<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> allowed just four hits and one run over seven innings for his first victory of the season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hunter Pence hit a two-run homer for the Astros, who had been favored at -150. Russ<\/st1:GivenName> Ortiz<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> surrendered six runs over 4 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>: 45-51 <\/font>SU<\/st1:GivenName>
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>: 50-47 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 2-8
Before playing Colorado are 6-4
After playing Houston are 5-5
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 6-4
Before playing Chi Cubs are 4-6
After playing NY Mets are 6-4
After a loss are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of NY Mets’s last 5 games when playing Houston
The total has gone OVER in 5 of NY Mets’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Houston
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of NY Mets’s last 12 games on the road
NY Mets are 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing Houston
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston’s last 5 games when playing NY Mets
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against NY Mets
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston’s last 6 games when playing at home against NY Mets<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
NY Mets home to Colorado<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>, Monday, July 27
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> at Chi Cubs, Monday, July 27<\/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 Sunday when they battle at Minute Maid Park. Righthander Livan Hernandez will take the mound for the Mets to start this game. Hernandez is 6-5 this season with a 4.93 ERA. Hernandez‘s opponent in this one will … Continue reading Mets-Astros 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-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","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=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}