{"id":15482,"date":"2011-05-19T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15482"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:19:59","slug":"bumgarners-bummer-giants-pitcher-looks-for-run-support-against-l-a-dodgers-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/bumgarners-bummer-giants-pitcher-looks-for-run-support-against-l-a-dodgers-tonight-15482\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumgarner’s Bummer: Giants’ Pitcher Looks for Run Support Against L.A. Dodgers Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Giants (23-19) AT Los Angeles Dodgers (20-24)<\/strong>
\nMay 19, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -130, SF +110<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -121, SF +110<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 6.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 SF- Madison Bumgarner, LA- Chad Billingsley<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Giants have finally found a way to beat the Dodgers; at least this season.\u00a0 They’ve won the last 4 against the Dodgers and will seek their 5th straight tonight.\u00a0 This all comes after losing 4 of the first 5 meetings of the season.<\/p>\n

Prior to their 8-5 win last night, the Giants had dropped two straight.\u00a0 Cody Ross hit a three run homer in the 9th to seal up the victory.\u00a0 \u201cWe definitely needed this one,\u201d Ross said. \u201cWe just keep battling and grinding and don\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dodgers will send Chad Billingsley to the mound.\u00a0 Billingsley has a 2-3 record with a 3.36 ERA.\u00a0 Last year was a rebound year for the former Giants ace, as he improved his ERA by roughly half a run from his 2009 campaign (though his W-L record remained the same at 12-11).\u00a0 Last season he cut his walk and homer rates significantly, and after the All-Star break he gave up only one home run in NINETY SIX innings.\u00a0 Billingsely finished 16th among NL qualifying pitchers in Support-Neutral Winning Percentage.\u00a0 It was the lack of offensive production that hurt Billingsley’s record, not poor pitching.<\/p>\n

Billingsley looks to win his fourth straight home start and will look to better his 2.56 ERA\u00a0 in his eight career starts against the Giants at Dodger stadium.\u00a0 Billingsley allowed 5 hits in 6 innings in a 4-3 victory over the Giants on April 1st.<\/p>\n

The Giants will send Madison Bumgarner to the mound.\u00a0 Bumgarner is 0-6 this season but has a relatively respectable 4.25 ERA.\u00a0 Bumgarner, like Billingsley, has received poor run support.\u00a0 He’s only given up 5 runs over his last 4 starts, and yet he has lost all three decisions in those starts.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s throwing the ball well enough to get a win,\u201d Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. \u201cBut we\u2019re just having a hard time finding a way to get him one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Against the Dodgers, Bumgarner is 1-1 with a 5.06 ERA.\u00a0 Last season, Bumgarner got off to a rough start due to his fastball lacking speed, but as the year went on, the speed returned and he began to pitch much better.\u00a0 He got sent to the minors but was recalled in June.\u00a0 He posted a 1.18 ERA in his last six starts and struck out 32 batters in 32 innings, while allowing only 4 walks and one homer.<\/p>\n

In his only start of the World Series, he pitched eight shutout innings.\u00a0 His PECOTA projection for the year is for an 11-8 record with a 3.84 ERA.\u00a0 It would represent a regression from last year’s ERA but he is expected to pitch 150+ innings this year, while last year he logged only 111 at the major league level.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 8-3 SU in their last 11 games and the Giants are 2-4 SU in their last 6 road games.\u00a0 The Giants are 4-2 SU in their last 6 against the Dodgers and the total has gone OVER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 6 games against the LA Dodgers.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER In 4 of LA’s last 5 games and the Dodgers are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 at home and the Dodgers are 1-4 SU in their last 5 home games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of the Dodgers’ last 6 games against the San Francisco Giants, while the Dodgers are 2-4 SU in their last 6 games against the Giants.<\/p>\n

It must be frustrating for Madison Bumgarner to continue to pitch well and record losses, and yet that is what MLB oddsmakers predict yet again for this matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Giants (23-19) AT Los Angeles Dodgers (20-24) May 19, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -130, SF +110 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 LA -121, SF +110 Opening Total: 6.5 Current Total: 6.5 SP:\u00a0 SF- Madison Bumgarner, LA- Chad Billingsley The Giants have finally found a way to beat the Dodgers; at least this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[429,736],"class_list":["post-15482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482","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=15482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15483,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15482\/revisions\/15483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}