{"id":5418,"date":"2009-08-29T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/mets-vs-cubs-baseball-handicapping\/"},"modified":"2009-08-29T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T12:59:00","slug":"mets-vs-cubs-baseball-handicapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/mets-vs-cubs-baseball-handicapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets vs Cubs Baseball Handicapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Bobby<\/st1:GivenName> Parnell<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> in this game. Parnell<\/st1:Sn> has a 1-3 record and a 8.82 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Ryan<\/st1:GivenName> Dempster<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Cubs in this contest. Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Dempster<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> is 7-7 with a 4.07 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 250-moneyline favorites versus the Mets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs scored four runs in the eighth inning to defeat the Mets 5-2 in the opener of a three-game set on Friday, as -260 favorites. That game’s seven runs went UNDER the day’s posted over\/under (8.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Alfonso<\/st1:GivenName> Soriano<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the way for the Mets with a three-run homer. Kevin<\/st1:GivenName> Gregg<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> earned the win in relief, and Carlos<\/st1:GivenName> Marmol<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> closed out the ninth for his sixth save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Fernando<\/st1:GivenName> Tatis<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> and Omir Santos drove in the runs for the Mets, who were +230 underdogs. Brian<\/st1:GivenName> Stokes<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up four runs in relief and was saddled with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State>: 58-71 <\/font>SU<\/st1:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>: 64-62 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York<\/st2:place><\/st2:State> most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Chi Cubs are 4-6
After playing Chi Cubs are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

Chicago<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn> most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing NY Mets are 6-4
After playing NY Mets are 5-5
After a win are 2-8<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
NY Mets are 2-5 SU in their last 7 games when playing Chi Cubs
NY Mets are 3-8 SU in its last 11 games on the road
NY Mets are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
NY Mets are 1-6 SU in its last 7 games
Chi Cubs are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games when playing at home against NY Mets
Chi Cubs are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games when playing NY Mets
Chi Cubs are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games at home
Chi Cubs are 6-12 SU in their last 18 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to NY Mets, Sunday, August 30<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Wrigley Field. The Mets will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Bobby Parnell in this game. Parnell has a 1-3 record and a 8.82 ERA this season. It’ll be Ryan … Continue reading Mets vs Cubs Baseball Handicapping<\/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-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","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=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}