{"id":5816,"date":"2009-09-28T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-handicaping-mets-vs-nationals\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:53:00","slug":"mlb-handicaping-mets-vs-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/mlb-handicaping-mets-vs-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Handicaping: Mets vs Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New York Mets and the Washington Nationals will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at Nationals<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Mets will give the ball to starter Nelson Figueroa in this one. Righthander Figueroa is 1-7 this season with a 5.23 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Ross Detwiler toeing the rubber for the Nationals in this contest. Lefthander Detwiler is 0-6 with a 5.89 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Nationals listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Mets, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pat Misch tossed a complete-game shutout to lead the Mets past the Marlins 4-0 on Sunday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> cashed as +220 road underdogs, while the teams played UNDER the 8.5-run total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ryan Zimmerman, Josh Willingham, and Mike Morse homered for Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> in its 6-3 loss in 10 innings to Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Sunday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as -200 road favorites, while the game played UNDER the 9.5-run total listed by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 4 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 67-89 SU
Washington: 52-103 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New York most recently:
When playing on Monday are 2-8
Before playing Washington are 4-6
After playing Florida are 3-7
After a win are 2-8<\/p>\n

Washington most recently:
When playing on Monday are 4-6
Before playing NY Mets are 3-7
After playing Atlanta are 3-7
After a loss are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of NY Mets’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of NY Mets’s last 9 games when playing Washington
The total has gone OVER in 4 of NY Mets’s last 5 games on the road
NY Mets are 17-7 SU in its last 24 games when playing Washington
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 5 games when playing at home against NY Mets
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Washington’s last 9 games when playing NY Mets
Washington is 8-15 SU in its last 23 games when playing at home against NY Mets
Washington is 7-17 SU in its last 24 games when playing NY Mets<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> home to NY Mets, Tuesday, September 29<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New York Mets and the Washington Nationals will both be trying to pick up a win on Monday when they battle at Nationals Park. The Mets will give the ball to starter Nelson Figueroa in this one. Righthander Figueroa is 1-7 this season with a 5.23 ERA. It’ll be Ross Detwiler toeing the rubber … Continue reading MLB Handicaping: Mets vs Nationals<\/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-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","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=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}