{"id":6571,"date":"2009-05-01T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/marlins-cubs-lines-preview-2\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:11:00","slug":"marlins-cubs-lines-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/marlins-cubs-lines-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins-Cubs Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Florida Marlins will be trying to extend a winning streak on Friday when they take on the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Graham<\/st2:middlename> Taylor<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will take the mound for the Marlins to start this game. Taylor<\/st2:GivenName><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 0-1 this season with a 9.81 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
It’ll be Rich<\/st2:GivenName> Harden<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> toeing the rubber for the Cubs in this contest. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Harden<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 2-1 with a 3.86 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Cubs listed as 270-moneyline favorites versus the Marlins, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Marlins scored six runs in the top of the 10th<\/sup> inning, and went on to defeat the Cubs 8-2 on Thursday. The Marlins won the game as +105 underdogs, while the 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (9.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jorge<\/st2:GivenName> Cantu<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> homered and finished with four RBIs for the Marlins. Renyel Pinto notched his second win of the season in relief. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Milton<\/st2:GivenName> Bradley<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> and Mike<\/st2:GivenName> Fontenot<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit solo home runs for the Cubs, who were -115 favorites. Aaron<\/st2:GivenName> Heilman<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up six runs and was tagged with the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 3 straight games.
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 14-8 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Chicago<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 10-11 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Florida most recently:
When playing on Friday are 5-5
Before playing Chi Cubs are 6-4
After playing Chi Cubs are 8-2
After a win are 8-2<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Florida are 4-6
After playing Florida are 5-5
After a loss are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Florida is 7-2 SU in their last 9 games when playing on the road against Chi Cubs
Florida is 14-4 SU in their last 18 games when playing Chi Cubs
Florida is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games on the road
Florida is 15-8 SU in its last 23 games
Chi Cubs are 2-7 SU in their last 9 games when playing at home against Florida
Chi Cubs are 4-14 SU in their last 18 games when playing Florida
Chi Cubs are 2-7 SU in their last 9 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chi Cubs home to Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Saturday, May 2<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Florida Marlins will be trying to extend a winning streak on Friday when they take on the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Lefthander Graham Taylor will take the mound for the Marlins to start this game. Taylor is 0-1 this season with a 9.81 ERA. It’ll be Rich Harden toeing the rubber for the … Continue reading Marlins-Cubs Lines Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","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=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}