{"id":5988,"date":"2009-10-12T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/rockies-phillies-weather-picks-odds\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:44:00","slug":"rockies-phillies-weather-picks-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/rockies-phillies-weather-picks-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies-Phillies Weather, Picks, Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Monday Night football <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lines-maker.com\/2009\/10\/espn-classic-bets-on-jets-vs-dolphins.html\">Jets-Dolphins spread and picks<\/a> may be atop the oddsmakers radar screen, but the MLB playoffs are just two hours away from first pitch. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Philadelphia Phillies are one win away from heading to the National League Championship Series. Game 4 will see temperatures in the low 30s, perhaps upper 20s. Cliff Lee totes the hill for the Phillies and Ubaldo Jimenez for the <\/span><\/font><st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=6932\">Expert picks on this game and Monday Night Football<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Phillies bats enter hitting .313 in the playoffs with a .393 OBP. The <\/span><\/font><st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> are hitting a pedestrian .255 in the series with a .298 OBP. Cliff Lee is off a complete game six-hit, no walks and one-run effort in Game 1. <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 3-of-5 with Jimenez including giving up five earned runs in five innings in the opener of this set. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In 15 home starts, Jimenez has a 3.34 home ERA. The Phillies though are 3-1 to him and Jimenez has a 6.33 ERA and 1.688 WHIP in those games. <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 0-2 to Lee whose ERA is 1.13 with a .813 WHIP. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Phillies thrive to good pitchers as they are 41-23 the last two years against starters with a 1.250 WHIP or better and they are 30-16 against teams with a winning record this year for +16.3 units. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The same cannot be said for <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> which is 7-20 this year -13.3 units to NFL teams that average 4.8 or more runs per game. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Phillies have won 8-of-10 as underdogs and are 40-17 on the road versus an opponent with a winning percentage of .600 or greater. The <\/span><\/font><st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> are 16-5 at home to left-handed starters. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>For more information: <\/span><\/font><\/b>Get the live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=25\">MLB odds<\/a> and picks from the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">sports handicappers<\/a> at OffshoreInsiders.com Network. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monday Night football Jets-Dolphins spread and picks may be atop the oddsmakers radar screen, but the MLB playoffs are just two hours away from first pitch. The Philadelphia Phillies are one win away from heading to the National League Championship Series. Game 4 will see temperatures in the low 30s, perhaps upper 20s. Cliff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/rockies-phillies-weather-picks-odds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockies-Phillies Weather, Picks, Odds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","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=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}