{"id":5831,"date":"2009-09-29T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/haynes-bridge-ms-visits-northwood\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:51:00","slug":"haynes-bridge-ms-visits-northwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/haynes-bridge-ms-visits-northwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Haynes Bridge MS Visits Northwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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If familiarity breeds contempt, there should be animosity aplenty on Tuesday when the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs meet at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander Kevin Hart will take the mound for the Pirates to start this game. Hart is 4-8 this season with a 5.68 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs will counter Hart with Ryan Dempster. Righthander Dempster has a 3.68 ERA to go along with a 10-8 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 255-moneyline favorites versus the Pirates, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zach Duke allowed one run over 8 2-3 innings to earn the win, as the Pirates slammed the Dodgers 11-1 on Monday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as +140 home underdogs, while the game played OVER the 8.5-run total set by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Cubs lost to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 5-1 as a -130 favorite on Sunday. The six runs scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Bobby Scales drove in the Cubs lone run and Randy Wells allowed five runs on 10 hits in 5 1-3 innings. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh: 59-96 SU
Chicago: 81-74 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 2-8
Before playing Chi Cubs are 3-7
After playing LA Dodgers are 4-6
After a win are 3-7<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Pittsburgh are 5-5
After playing San Francisco are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Pittsburgh’s last 8 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Pittsburgh’s last 10 games when playing Chi Cubs
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Pittsburgh’s last 9 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
Chi Cubs are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
Chi Cubs are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games when playing at home against Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chi Cubs’s last 5 games
Chi Cubs are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, September 30<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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If familiarity breeds contempt, there should be animosity aplenty on Tuesday when the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs meet at Wrigley Field. Righthander Kevin Hart will take the mound for the Pirates to start this game. Hart is 4-8 this season with a 5.68 ERA. The Cubs will counter Hart with Ryan Dempster. Righthander … Continue reading Haynes Bridge MS Visits Northwood<\/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-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","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=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}