{"id":14900,"date":"2011-04-13T13:11:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2011-04-13T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:11:25","slug":"rollin-rockies-colorado-takes-on-new-york-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/rollin-rockies-colorado-takes-on-new-york-mets-14900\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollin Rockies: Colorado Takes on New York Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (7-2) AT New York Mets (4-6)<\/strong>
\nApril 13, 2011 at 7:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Runline:\u00a0 NYM -1.5 +180, COL +1.5 -210<\/strong>
\nCurrent Runline:\u00a0 NYM -1.5 +175, COL +1.5 -210<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 NYM -119 \/ COL -101<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 NYM -115 \/ COL +105<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 7.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 7.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 COL- E. Rogers, NYM- J. Niese<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tulowitzki is batting .333 since his 1 of 11 start to the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Rockies are off to a much better start than anyone expected and have now tied their franchise history for the best season, boasting a 7-2 record.\u00a0 A win today would make it the best start in Rockies history.<\/p>\n

Troy Tulowitzki is back in form.\u00a0 He started out the season 1 for 11, but since has hit .333 with four homers and he recorded 3 RBIs in Monday’s 7-6 win series opening win over New York.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s nice to get an off day,\u201d Tulowitzki said. \u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of 16 days in a row, so we\u2019ll take one if we get one. It\u2019s not breaking up any momentum at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason Hammel was thankful for the run production, but says it is nothing new from the Rockies’ slugger.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m ashamed to say those things don\u2019t surprise me anymore because (Tulowitzki) does it every day – Carlos, too,\u201d Hammel said. \u201cThey\u2019re two very big factors on this team.<\/p>\n

The Mets need look no further than their bullpen to pinpoint their struggles.\u00a0 Staring back is a nasty 6.57 ERA with an 0-3 record.\u00a0 The poor bullpen play, the culprit being Ryota Igarashi, was responsible for Monday’s loss, blowing a 4-2 lead and giving up the game tying hit to Carlos Gonzalez, who finished with 3 RBIs.<\/p>\n

Their starter for tonight’s game, Jonathan Niese, is off to a bad start this season, as well.\u00a0 He gave up 6 runs and 8 hits in four innings pitched in a loss to the Phillies and his ERA on the season is now 6.55.\u00a0 It’s far worse than his PECOTA projections of a 9-10 record with a 4.69 ERA.\u00a0 Niese has yet to record a decision against the Rays, but the Mets have lost all three games in which he started.<\/p>\n

Things have gone far better for Colorado starter Esmil Rogers.\u00a0 Rogers gave up only 1 run and 4 hits in 7 1\/3rds innings pitched against the Pittsburgh Pirates.\u00a0 He also had 7 strikeouts to go with only 1 walk.\u00a0 The win gave him a 1-0 record and 1.23 ERA.\u00a0 \u201cRogers was special,\u201d Tulowitzki said. \u201cI don\u2019t know who I told in spring training, but he was my pick to kind of surprise some people.\u201d\u00a0 In his short history with the Mets, he made two relief appearances last year over three innings, as he gave up 1 run and 2 hits over that span.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Colorado is 7-1-1 SU in their last 9 games and they are 8-15-1 SU in their last 24 games.\u00a0 The Rockies are 4-1-1 SU in their last 6 on the road and they are 2-3-1 SU in their last 6 against the New York Mets.\u00a0 Colorado is 5-19-1 SU in their last 25 games on the road in New York.<\/p>\n

The Mets are 1-5-1 SU in their last 7 games and they are 1-4-1 SU in their last 6 games at home.\u00a0 The Mets are 4-7-1 SU in their last 12 games against the Colorado Rockies and the Mets are 2-3-1 SU in their last 6 home games against Colorado.\u00a0 The Mets are 19-5-1 SU in their last 25 games at home against the Rockies.<\/p>\n

If things go at all the same for Esmil Rogers, the Rockies are more or less assured of a victory.\u00a0 The Mets’ lineup isn’t potent enough that it is beyond reason to expect a shutout by Rogers, or at the most a couple runs in 7 or so innings.\u00a0 Indeed, Rogers is the key to this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (7-2) AT New York Mets (4-6) April 13, 2011 at 7:10 PM EST Opening Runline:\u00a0 NYM -1.5 +180, COL +1.5 -210 Current Runline:\u00a0 NYM -1.5 +175, COL +1.5 -210 Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 NYM -119 \/ COL -101 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 NYM -115 \/ COL +105 Opening Total:\u00a0 7.5 Current Total: 7.5 SP:\u00a0 COL- E. Rogers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[166,43],"class_list":["post-14900","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\/14900","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=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14902,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions\/14902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}