{"id":5271,"date":"2009-08-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/pirates-cubs-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:30:00","slug":"pirates-cubs-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/pirates-cubs-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Cubs Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Charlie<\/st2:GivenName> Morton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Pirates on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Morton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-5 this season with a 3.81 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Randy<\/st2:GivenName> Wells<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> who starts for the Cubs. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Wells<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 8-5 with a 3.01 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 240-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Paul<\/st2:GivenName> Maholm<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered 11 hits and seven runs over 6 1-3 innings as the Pirates were crushed 10-1 by the Rockies<\/st1:place> on Thursday. The Pirates were +190 underdogs in that game, while the 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (10). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs were swept away by the Phillies as they fell 6-1 in the finale on Thursday. The Cubs were +125 underdogs in that game, while the seven runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Theriot<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> drove in the only run for the Cubs. Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Dempster<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed eight hits and six runs over seven innings to suffer the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 46-68 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 58-55 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Chi Cubs are 3-7
After playing Colorado are 4-6
After a loss are 2-8<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Friday are 9-1
Before playing Pittsburgh are 6-4
After playing Philadelphia are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing Chi Cubs
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi Cubs’s last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
Chi Cubs are 9-2 SU in their last 11 games when playing Pittsburgh
Chi Cubs are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Chi Cubs’s last 7 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Saturday, August 15<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at Wrigley Field. Charlie Morton will be the starting pitcher for the Pirates on this day. Righthander Morton is 2-5 this season with a 3.81 ERA. Meanwhile, it’ll be Randy Wells who starts for the Cubs. … Continue reading Pirates-Cubs 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-5271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271","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=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}