{"id":5253,"date":"2009-08-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nationals-reds-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:00:00","slug":"nationals-reds-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nationals-reds-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals-Reds Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Washington Nationals and the Cincinnati Reds will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Great<\/st2:PlaceName> American<\/st2:PlaceName> Ball<\/st2:PlaceName> Park<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nationals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Collin<\/st1:GivenName> Balester<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this game. Balester has a 1-1 record and a 5.21 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Reds will be Bronson Arroyo. The righthander has a 5.04 ERA to go along with a 10-11 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Reds listed as 158-moneyline favorites versus the Nationals, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Nationals were defeated 6-2 by the Braves last time out, as +210 underdogs. The game’s eight runs went UNDER the night’s posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Adam<\/st1:GivenName> Dunn<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> and Ronnie<\/st1:GivenName> Belliard<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> drove in the runs. Jorge<\/st1:GivenName> Sosa<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up the winning run in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Reds were defeated 5-2 by the Cardinals last time out, as a -110 pick’em. That game’s seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Brandon<\/st1:GivenName> Phillips<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> drove in a pair of runs in a losing effort for the Reds. Homer<\/st1:GivenName> Bailey<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up three runs and suffered the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>: 40-74 SU
Cincinnati: 49-64 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Washington most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing Cincinnati are 2-8
After playing Atlanta are 3-7
After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 6 games when playing Cincinnati
Washington is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Washington’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Cincinnati
Washington is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Cincinnati
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Cincinnati’s last 6 games when playing Washington
Cincinnati is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cincinnati’s last 5 games when playing at home against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Cincinnati’s last 13 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Cincinnati<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Washington<\/st2:place><\/st2:State><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, August 14<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Washington Nationals and the Cincinnati Reds will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at Great American Ball Park. The Nationals will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Collin Balester in this game. Balester has a 1-1 record and a 5.21 ERA this season. Starting this game for … Continue reading Nationals-Reds 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-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","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=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}