{"id":5295,"date":"2009-08-16T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/pirates-cubs-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T13:32:00","slug":"pirates-cubs-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/pirates-cubs-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates-Cubs Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Pirates will give the ball to starter Ross<\/st2:GivenName> Ohlendorf<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Ohlendorf<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 10-8 this season with a 4.30 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Rich<\/st2:GivenName> Harden<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Cubs in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Harden<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 7-7 with a 4.38 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 275-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs handed the Pirates a fourth straight loss in a 3-1 victory on Saturday, as -165 favorites. The team’s played UNDER the posted over\/under (10.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jeff<\/st2:GivenName> Baker<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> belted a solo home run and drove in a pair of runs to lead the Cubs. Tom<\/st2:GivenName> Gorzelanny<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> fanned eight batters, allowing just three hits and one run over five innings for his fifth victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zach<\/st2:GivenName> Duke<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up nine hits and three runs over 7 1-3 innings in suffering the loss for the +145 underdog Pirates. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 4 straight games.
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 46-70 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 60-55 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 2-8
Before playing Milwaukee are 2-8
After playing Chi Cubs are 1-9
After a loss are 1-9<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Sunday are 8-2
Before playing San Diego are 7-3
After playing Pittsburgh are 8-2
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Pittsburgh is 1-6 SU in their last 7 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
Pittsburgh is 1-6 SU in their last 7 games when playing Chi Cubs
Pittsburgh is 1-9 SU in its last 10 games on the road
Pittsburgh is 1-12 SU in its last 13 games
Chi Cubs are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
Chi Cubs are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games when playing Pittsburgh
Chi Cubs are 8-4 SU in their last 12 games at home
Chi Cubs are 2-5 SU in their last 7 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, August 17
Chi Cubs at San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, August 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Wrigley Field. The Pirates will give the ball to starter Ross Ohlendorf in this one. Righthander Ohlendorf is 10-8 this season with a 4.30 ERA. It’ll be Rich Harden toeing the rubber for … Continue reading Pirates-Cubs 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-5295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295","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=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}