{"id":14826,"date":"2011-04-11T12:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14826"},"modified":"2011-04-11T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:59:49","slug":"nl-matchup-colorado-rockies-at-new-york-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nl-matchup-colorado-rockies-at-new-york-mets-14826\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Matchup: Colorado Rockies At New York Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (6-2)\u00a0 AT New York Mets\u00a0 (4-5)<\/strong>
\nApril 11, 2011 at 7:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Runline:\u00a0 COL -1.5 +150, NYM +1.5 -170<\/strong>
\nCurrent Runline:\u00a0 COL +1.5 -225, NYM -1.5 +190<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 EVEN<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 COL -104 \/ NYM -106<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 8<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 8.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 COL- J. Hammel \/ NYM- M. Pelfrey<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jason Hammel will take the mound for Colorado tonight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Things might appear bleak if one only considered what Mike Pelfrey has done so far.\u00a0 He’s posted a 15.23 ERA through two games and walked four batters in 4 1\/3rd innings in the opening day loss to the Marlins.\u00a0 Even after giving up 7 runs, the Mets came back to tie the game, before losing 10-7.\u00a0 \u201cI was bad last week, and I was even worse (Wednesday),\u201d Pelfrey said. \u201cI let them down again. \u2026 I\u2019ve definitely got to be better than what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, consider what Pelfrey has done against the Rockies.\u00a0 He’s beaten them 5 of 6 games since 2008 and in those 5 victories, the Rockies didn’t even manage a single run.\u00a0 Moreover, Pelfrey is a much better pitcher at home, as he went 10-3 with a 2.83 ERA at home last season.\u00a0 Pelfrey must be careful early on, however, as Colorado has outscored opponents 14-1 in the first inning this season.\u00a0 Pelfrey’s PECOTA projection is for a 10-10 record while posting a 4.38 ERA.\u00a0 He’s off to a bad start towards meeting that, but pitching the Rockies scoreless tonight would easily fix that.<\/p>\n

Rockies’ starter Jason Hammel has been less successful in New York.\u00a0 He lost both his outings against the Mets on the road and he had his shortest career start of 1 1\/3rd innings in a 7-0 loss in 2009.\u00a0 Hammel can’t blame the offense for not providing run production.\u00a0 The Mets put up 5 runs, but Hammel gave up 4 runs in 5 innings, allowing the Mets to lose 7-5.\u00a0 Hammel’s PECOTA projections are for an 8-10 record with a poor 5.15 ERA.<\/p>\n

Dating back to 2003, the Rockies are 4-23 in New York.\u00a0 Rockies’ manager Jim Tracy is aware of the problems his team has had on the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of things we didn\u2019t do well on the road last year,\u201d Tracy said.\u00a0 \u201cSo we went back to the drawing board in spring training. \u2026 We have certainly addressed some things. We\u2019ve done a better job of executing and hopefully we\u2019ll take it along with us and take us to a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Colorado is 7-15 SU in their last 22 games and they are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games.\u00a0 Colorado is 3-9 SU in their last 12 on the road and the total has gone UNDER in 12 of their last 18 against the New York Mets.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the Rockies’ past 6 games on the road against the Mets and Colorado is 4-21 SU in their last 25 road games against the Mets.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 5 of the Mets’ last 5 games and the Mets are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of the Mets’ last 5 games at home and the Mets are 4-9 SU in their last 13 games at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 12 of the Mets’ last 18 games against the Rockies.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the Mets’ last 6 games at home against the Rockies and the Mets are 21-4 SU in their last 25 games at home against the Rockies.<\/p>\n

This matchup should be extremely close.\u00a0 Colorado is the better team, but their struggles in New York are well documented.\u00a0 Pelfrey has had his way with the Rockies, so a slight edge goes to the Mets for both being at home and pitching Pelfrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (6-2)\u00a0 AT New York Mets\u00a0 (4-5) April 11, 2011 at 7:10 PM EST Opening Runline:\u00a0 COL -1.5 +150, NYM +1.5 -170 Current Runline:\u00a0 COL +1.5 -225, NYM -1.5 +190 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 EVEN Current Moneyline:\u00a0 COL -104 \/ NYM -106 Opening Total:\u00a0 8 Current Total: 8.5 SP:\u00a0 COL- J. Hammel \/ NYM- M. Pelfrey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[166,43],"class_list":["post-14826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826","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=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14827,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14826\/revisions\/14827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}