{"id":5299,"date":"2009-08-17T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/brewers-pirates-lines-preview-3\/"},"modified":"2009-08-17T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:38:00","slug":"brewers-pirates-lines-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/brewers-pirates-lines-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers-Pirates Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Milwaukee Brewers and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Villanueva<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Brewers on this day. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Villanueva<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 0-2 this season with a 4.95 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Pirates will be Kevin<\/st2:GivenName> Hart<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The righthander has a 4.05 ERA to go along with a 3-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Brewers listed as 130-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Brewers lost to Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> 8-5 as a +100 underdog on Sunday. The 13 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan<\/st2:GivenName> Braun<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 3-4 with a home run and two RBI for Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Felipe<\/st2:GivenName> Lopez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 3-4 with a run scored. <\/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 teams played UNDER the posted over\/under (10.5). <\/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.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 58-59 SU
Pittsburgh: 46-70 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Milwaukee most recently:
When playing on Monday are 5-5
Before playing Pittsburgh are 7-3
After playing Houston are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Monday are 6-4
Before playing Milwaukee are 2-8
After playing Chi Cubs are 1-9
After a loss are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Milwaukee is 18-2 SU in its last 20 games when playing Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Milwaukee’s last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Milwaukee’s last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Milwaukee’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing Milwaukee
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games when playing at home against Milwaukee
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games
Pittsburgh is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games when playing at home against Milwaukee<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Milwaukee<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Tuesday, August 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Milwaukee Brewers and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at PNC Park. Carlos Villanueva will be the starting pitcher for the Brewers on this day. Righthander Villanueva is 0-2 this season with a 4.95 ERA. Starting this game for the Pirates will be … Continue reading Brewers-Pirates 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-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","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=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}