{"id":5252,"date":"2009-08-13T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/pirates-rockies-odds-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T11:56:00","slug":"pirates-rockies-odds-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/pirates-rockies-odds-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Rockies Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Coors Field will be treated to a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Colorado Rockies when they take their seats on Thursday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Maholm<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this game. Maholm has a 6-6 record and a 4.76 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rockies<\/st1:place> will counter Maholm with Jason<\/st2:GivenName> Marquis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander Marquis has a 3.65 ERA to go along with a 12-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Rockies<\/st1:place> listed as 250-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ubaldo<\/st2:GivenName> Jimenez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> had six strikeouts over eight scoreless innings to lift the Rockies<\/st1:place> to an 8-0 win over the Pirates on Wednesday, as -270 favorites. That game’s eight runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Hart<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up eight hits and five runs over 5 1-3 innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 46-67 SU
Colorado: 64-50 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing Chi Cubs are 3-7
After playing Colorado are 5-5
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Colorado most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 3-7
Before playing Florida are 5-5
After playing Pittsburgh are 6-4
After a win are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Pittsburgh is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing Colorado
Pittsburgh is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games on the road
Pittsburgh is 1-8 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Colorado
Pittsburgh is 1-9 SU in its last 10 games
Colorado is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
Colorado is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
Colorado is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home
Colorado is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Chi Cubs, Friday, August 14
Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, August 14<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at Coors Field will be treated to a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Colorado Rockies when they take their seats on Thursday. The Pirates will pin their hopes on the pitching of lefthander Paul Maholm in this game. Maholm has a 6-6 record and a 4.76 ERA this season. The Rockies … Continue reading Pirates-Rockies 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-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}