{"id":5189,"date":"2009-08-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/brewers-astros-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T14:00:00","slug":"brewers-astros-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/brewers-astros-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers-Astros Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Milwaukee Brewers and the Houston Astros will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Minute<\/st1:PlaceName> Maid<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Brewers will give the ball to starter Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Villanueva<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Villanueva<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 0-1 this season with a 5.00 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Bud<\/st2:GivenName> Norris<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> who starts for the Astros. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Norris<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Astros listed as 135-moneyline favorites versus the Brewers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Brewers scored three runs in the fourth inning and defeated the Dodgers 4-1 on Wednesday, as +130 underdogs. That game’s five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Braun<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 2-for-5 at the plate and drove in a pair of runs for the Brewers. Braden Looper improved to 10-5 with the win, and Trevor<\/st2:GivenName> Hoffman<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> notched his 25th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros were defeated 10-6 by the Giants in the series rubber match on Wednesday, as -155 favorites. That game’s 16 runs sailed OVER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Hunter Pence belted a two-run homer, while Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Moehler<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered nine hits and seven runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 54-54 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 53-55 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Milwaukee most recently:
When playing on Friday are 0-10
Before playing Houston are 7-3
After playing LA Dodgers are 5-5
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Houston most recently:
When playing on Friday are 6-4
Before playing Milwaukee are 4-6
After playing San Francisco are 5-5
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Milwaukee is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Houston
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Milwaukee’s last 8 games when playing Houston
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Milwaukee’s last 11 games
Milwaukee is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Houston
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston’s last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Houston’s last 8 games when playing Milwaukee
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 6 games when playing at home against Milwaukee<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, August 8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Milwaukee Brewers and the Houston Astros will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Minute Maid Park. The Brewers will give the ball to starter Carlos Villanueva in this one. Righthander Villanueva is 0-1 this season with a 5.00 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be Bud Norris who starts for the … Continue reading Brewers-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-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","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=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}