{"id":5154,"date":"2009-08-04T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/cardinals-mets-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:05:00","slug":"cardinals-mets-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/cardinals-mets-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals-Mets Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The fans at Citi Field will be treated to a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets when they take their seats on Tuesday. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cardinals will give the ball to starter <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st2:GivenName>Joel<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Pineiro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Pineiro<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 9-9 this season with a 2.84 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Mets will counter Pineiro with ace <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Johan<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Santana<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. <st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Santana<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 3.12 ERA to go along with a 11-8 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Mets listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Cardinals, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cardinals lost to <st2:Sn><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> 2-0 as a -280 favorite on Sunday. The two runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Adam<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Wainwright<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> took the loss for <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> after allowing two runs on eight hits in seven innings. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:PersonName><st2:GivenName>Luis<\/st2:GivenName> <st2:Sn>Castillo<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in a pair of runs for <st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in its 6-5 loss to <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> on Monday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> won as -185 road favorites as the game played OVER the 7.5-run total posted by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 58-50 SU<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 49-56 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">St. Louis most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing NY Mets are 5-5<br \/>After playing Houston are 5-5<br \/>After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>New York most recently:<br \/>When playing on Tuesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing St. Louis are 4-6<br \/>After playing Arizona are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of St. Louis&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>St. Louis is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 9 of St. Louis&#8217;s last 13 games when playing NY Mets<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 9 of St. Louis&#8217;s last 13 games when playing on the road against NY Mets<br \/>NY Mets are 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against St. Louis<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of NY Mets&#8217;s last 7 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of NY Mets&#8217;s last 7 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 9 of NY Mets&#8217;s last 13 games when playing St. Louis<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/>NY Mets home to <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, August 5<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fans at Citi Field will be treated to a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets when they take their seats on Tuesday. The Cardinals will give the ball to starter Joel Pineiro in this one. Righthander Pineiro is 9-9 this season with a 2.84 ERA. The Mets will counter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/cardinals-mets-lines-preview-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardinals-Mets Lines Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154","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=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}