{"id":14862,"date":"2011-04-12T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14862"},"modified":"2011-04-12T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T18:21:58","slug":"nl-betting-philadelphia-phillies-at-washington-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nl-betting-philadelphia-phillies-at-washington-nationals-14862\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Betting: Philadelphia Phillies at Washington Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies (7-2) AT Washington Nationals (4-5)<\/strong>
\nApril 12, 2011 at 7:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Runline:\u00a0 PHI -1.5 +120, WAS +1.5 -140<\/strong>
\nCurrent Runline:\u00a0 PHI -1.5 +130, WAS +1.5 -150<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline: PHI -145 \/ WAS +125<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 PHI -126 \/ WAS +116<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 9<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 8.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 PHI- J. Blanton, WAS- L. Hernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ryan Howard is off to a hot start this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jayson Werth proved himself to be one of the Phillies franchise strongholds.\u00a0 He helped win the 2008 World Series and helped the Phillies win the last 4 NL East titles.\u00a0 The Nationals have never been relevant.\u00a0 So why did Werth switch from the Phillies, a perennial powerhouse, to the Nats, a cellar dweller?\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 It is a fact though that he has struggled since making the switch, as he is hitting just .200 this season so far.<\/p>\n

The Nationals, despite his struggles, are starting to come together as a team.\u00a0 After starting the season 1-4, the Nationals have went on to win 3 of their last 4, including the 11 inning 7-3 win over the Mets on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s significant that we\u2019re playing good baseball more than anything,\u201d said Jason Marquis after starting Sunday. \u201cWe started things off a bit sluggish.\u201d<\/p>\n

As good as the Nats have been, it is going to take even more to beat the Phillies, a team they have struggled against badly.\u00a0 The Nats won only 6 of the 18 games between the teams last season and the Phillies have won 27 of 36 games dating back to 2009.<\/p>\n

The Phillies Ryan Howard is off to a strong start.\u00a0 Through the first 9 games he is hitting .368 with five homers and 13 RBIs.\u00a0 Leadoff batter Shane Victorino is hitting an outstanding .565 and has scored eight runs.\u00a0 Victorino, however, struggled badly against the Nationals last year, hitting just .207 in 15 contests.\u00a0 He was even worse at Nationals Park, hitting 0.91 there with only 2 hits in 22 at bats, both singles.<\/p>\n

The Phillies will send Joe Blanton to the mound.\u00a0 Blanton has a 14.54 ERA at this point.\u00a0 He gave up 7 runs and 10 hits in 4 1\/3rd innings against the Mets on Wednesday, though the Phillies still managed to win by virtue of scoring 10 runs themselves.\u00a0 Last season, Blanton was 1-0 against the Nats in 3 starts and he posted a 3.79 ERA.\u00a0 His PECOTA projection for the season is for a 12-12 record with a 4.46 ERA.\u00a0 The ERA is an improvement over last season’s 4.82.<\/p>\n

Nats’ pitcher Livan Hernandez is 11-10 lifetime against the Phillies with a 3.60 ERA in 27 career starts.\u00a0 His PECOTA projection calls for a 11-13 record with a 5.14 ERA, roughly 1.5 runs higher than what he did last season with a 3.66 ERA.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of the Philadelphia Phillies last 5 games and the Phillies are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 16-6 SU in their last 22 games on the road and the total has gone OVER in 4 of their last 5 on the road.\u00a0 The total has also gone OVER in 13 of the last 18 against the Washington Nationals.\u00a0 The Phillies are 6-1 SU in their last 7 matchups against the Nationals and the Phillies are also 11-5 SU in their last 16 road games against the Washington Nationals.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 9 of Philly’s last 11 games on the road in Washington.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER In all 5 of Washington’s last 5 games and the Nats are 2-4 SU in their last 6 at home.\u00a0 The Nats are also 1-6 SU in their last 7 against the Phillies while the total has gone OVER in 13 of the last 18 games against the Phillies.\u00a0 The total has also gone OVER In 9 of Washington’s last 11 games at home against Philadelphia.\u00a0 Washington is 5-11 SU in their last 16 games against the Phillies.<\/p>\n

This matchup, as indicated by the Moneyline set by Vegas Oddsmakers, is expected to be close.\u00a0 Neither team is sending a particularly strong pitcher to the mound, and an ‘over’ bet on the total seems prudent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies (7-2) AT Washington Nationals (4-5) April 12, 2011 at 7:05 PM EST Opening Runline:\u00a0 PHI -1.5 +120, WAS +1.5 -140 Current Runline:\u00a0 PHI -1.5 +130, WAS +1.5 -150 Opening Moneyline: PHI -145 \/ WAS +125 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 PHI -126 \/ WAS +116 Opening Total:\u00a0 9 Current Total: 8.5 SP:\u00a0 PHI- J. Blanton, WAS- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[98,996,850],"class_list":["post-14862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-ryan-howard","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14863,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862\/revisions\/14863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}