{"id":5735,"date":"2009-09-24T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-odds-cubs-vs-giants\/"},"modified":"2009-09-24T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T12:41:00","slug":"mlb-odds-cubs-vs-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-odds-cubs-vs-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Odds: Cubs vs Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at AT&T<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs will give the ball to starter Ryan Dempster in this one. Righthander Dempster is 10-8 this season with a 3.72 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Brad Penny toeing the rubber for the Giants in this contest. Righthander Penny is 10-9 with a 5.35 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Giants listed as 115-moneyline favorites versus the Cubs, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs were defeated 3-2 by the Brewers on Wednesday, as +125 road underdogs. The team’s played UNDER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jeff Samardzija homered for the Cubs, while surrendering three runs over five innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants took out the Diamondbacks 5-2 in Wednesday night’s rubber match, as -130 favorites. The game’s seven runs went UNDER the night’s posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Juan Uribe went 2-for-3 at the plate with a two-run homer and three RBIs. Jonathan Sanchez surrendered just two runs over 5 1-3 innings for the victory. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 78-73 SU
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 82-70 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 4-6
Before playing San Francisco are 7-3
After playing Milwaukee are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

San Francisco most recently:
When playing on Thursday are 7-3
Before playing Chi Cubs are 3-7
After playing Arizona are 6-4
After a win are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Chi Cubs are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 6 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 9 of San Francisco’s last 12 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Chi Cubs, Friday, September 25<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants will both be gunning for a victory on Thursday when they meet at AT&T Park. The Cubs will give the ball to starter Ryan Dempster in this one. Righthander Dempster is 10-8 this season with a 3.72 ERA. It’ll be Brad Penny toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading MLB Odds: Cubs vs Giants<\/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-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","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=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}