{"id":37194,"date":"2011-04-15T22:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T05:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=37194"},"modified":"2011-04-15T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T05:34:10","slug":"odds-marlins-vs-phillie-gambling-prediction-preview-15411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/mlb-baseball\/odds-marlins-vs-phillie-gambling-prediction-preview-15411\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Betting \u2013 Florida vs. Philadelphia Gambling Prediction \/ Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday MLB Baseball Picks: Marlins vs Phillies<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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MLB Betting \u2013 Marlins vs Phillies Preview & Pick<\/strong>
\nDate: <\/strong>Saturday, April 16, 2011
\nVenue: <\/strong>Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA
\nBroadcast: <\/strong>FSPL, CSN
\nFlorida Marlins at Philadelphia Phillies Betting Lines from Betus.com<\/strong>
\nMoney Line: <\/strong> Phili -200
\nOver\/Under: <\/strong> 8.5
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Florida Marlins (6-5 through April 13)<\/strong>
\nAnibal Sanchez (0-1, 6.97)<\/p>\n

Sharing the National League East with major contenders like the Phillies and Braves, the Florida Marlins can\u2019t waste any opportunity to gain ground on the Phillies while they\u2019re not at full strength. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But do the Marlins have the horses to do so? Offensively, no one is stepping up aside from youngster Logan Morrison. Superstar Hanley Ramirez has been a disaster, making errors galore, injuring his leg and batting .194 with no homers early on.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s probable starter, Anibal Sanchez, hasn\u2019t pulled his weight either. Over two starts and 10.1 innings pitched so far this season, he\u2019s winless and has allowed eight earned runs and 20 hits.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Phillies (8-3 through April 13)<\/strong>
\nCole Hamels (1-1, 5.59)<\/p>\n

After assembling the \u201cPhantastic Four\u201d rotation of Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels for the 2011 season, the Philadelphia Phillies emerged as the consensus World Series favorite. They also emerged as the team many people love to hate, in the same vein of the NBA\u2019s Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

But even the Phillies\u2019 biggest critics have to give them credit for the 8-3 start. They\u2019re overcoming some adversity; Chase Utley and Brad Lidge are injured and Ryan Howard\u2019s wrist is banged up, too.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s with Cole Hamels and slow starts? He took a beating in his first start of 2011, allowing six earned runs in 2.2 innings. He\u2019s 8-9 with a 4.22 ERA in April. However, in his second outing of the season, he took a step toward bucking the trend, tossing seven scoreless frames with eight strikeouts against the Braves.<\/p>\n

MLB Trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under is 10-1 in FLA last 11 road games.
\nUnder is 6-1-1 in FLA last 8 Fri. games.
\nUnder is 20-8 in FLA last 28 on grass.
\nOver is 8-2-1 in PHI last 11 overall.
\nOver is 8-2-1 in PHI last 11 on grass.
\nPHI are 19-7 in their last 26 Fri. games.<\/p>\n

The pick:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even in Philadelphia, this pick is no slam-dunk. In 15 career starts against the Marlins, Hamels is 4-7 with a 3.73 ERA and 14 homers allowed in just 94 innings. Don\u2019t sleep on Chris Coghlan; the former NL Rookie of the Year bats .462 with two homers in 13 at-bats against Hamels. Then again, Sanchez struggles mightily against the Phillies historically, going 3-7 with a 5.93 ERA.<\/p>\n

The stars have aligned for a slugfest. Even if Howard can\u2019t play, the Phillies are swinging the bats better than the Marlins at this point in the season, so I think they can slip by.<\/p>\n

Marlins vs Phillies prediction: <\/strong>Phillies 7, Marlins 5<\/p>\n

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Shea weighs in with his MLB Free Pick for tonight. It\u2019s the Florida Marlins vs. Philadelphia Phillies matching up at Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies are currently 200-moneyline favorites\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":24268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[47732,47733,47618,111,13510,112,29831,27819,27820,27821,27822,27271,27817,27818,2058,678,683,686],"class_list":["post-37194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-2011-major-league-baseball","tag-2011-mlb-betting","tag-2011-mlb-picks","tag-baseball-picks","tag-baseball-prediction","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-florida-marlins-vs-philadelphia-phillies","tag-florida-marlins-vs-philadelphia-phillies-gambling","tag-florida-marlins-vs-philadelphia-phillies-pick","tag-florida-philadelphia-betting","tag-florida-philadelphia-odds","tag-major-league-baseball-betting-odds","tag-marlins-phillies-lines","tag-marlins-phillies-odds","tag-mlb-baseball-betting","tag-mlb-betting","tag-mlb-handicapping","tag-mlb-pick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37257,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37194\/revisions\/37257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}