{"id":15484,"date":"2011-05-19T14:53:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:53:17","slug":"nl-betting-preview-milwaukee-brewers-at-san-diego-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nl-betting-preview-milwaukee-brewers-at-san-diego-padres-15484\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Betting Preview: Milwaukee Brewers At San Diego Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Brewers (21-22) AT San Diego Padres (18-25)<\/strong>
\nMay 19, 2011 at 10:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 MIL -115, SD -105<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 MIL -109, SD -101<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 7<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 MIL- Chris Narveson; SD- Aaron Harang<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prince Fielder had 2 hits in last night's victory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Brewers were battling a streak of futility for a long while, but now they seem to have things together and can actually reach the .500 plateau with a win today of the Padres.\u00a0\u00a0 Last night, they won 5-2, giving them their 8th victory of their last 11 games.\u00a0 They’re batting .276 over that span.\u00a0 Casey McGehee and Rickie Weeks both had a solid span with 14 and 13 hits respectably.<\/p>\n

The best find of the streak may have been the emergence of catcher Jonathan Lucroy.\u00a0 In his last 9 games he’s batting .375 with 2 HRs and 10 RBIs.\u00a0 In the sixth inning of Wednesday night’s game he got beaned with the bases loaded and gave the Brewers the edge at that point 3-2, and they went on to score 2 more runs before completing the victory.<\/p>\n

Prince Fielder had 2 hits, scored 2 runs and had one RBI nad Ryan Ludwick also had a\u00a0 2 run homer.\u00a0 The Brewers have won 3 of 4 games and are a hairline favorite in tonight’s game.<\/p>\n

San Diego finds themselves entrenched in last place and they have only scored 3 runs in their last 2 games.\u00a0 They aren’t getting hits the few times runners do get into scoring position and they realize that is the problem.\u00a0 \u201cThe timely hits are not where we need it to be. Simple as that,\u201d Padres manager Bud Black remarked.<\/p>\n

Aaron Harang is still trying to rediscover his magic.\u00a0 Despite a poor ERA (5.05), he is 5-2 on the season thanks to a good bit of run support.\u00a0 Harang totaled only 6 wins in each of the last 3 seasons, despite having a better ERA over that span.\u00a0 In his last 4 starts, he has gone 1-2 with an 8.46 ERA, however, and the Padres have only backed him with 6 runs in his last 4 starts, compared to 16 over his first four starts.<\/p>\n

Chris Narveson will take the mound for the Brewers.\u00a0 He is 2-3 on the season with a 4.00 ERA.\u00a0 This could be his first back to back wins of the season.\u00a0 His ERA dropped significantly after he allowed only 1 run in 6 innings against the Pirates on Saturday.\u00a0 Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said he doesn’t feel “his record shows how he’s pitched.”\u00a0 Be that as it may, Narveson’s PECOTA projections for this season predict a 6-6 record in 115 innings pitched with a 4.74 ERA.\u00a0 He looks to be slightly better than that projection, and may post a better record if he receives more run support.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Milwaukee is 5-1 SU in their last 6 games and the Brewers are 3-9 SU in their last 12 games on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 6 of their last 7 on the road and it has gone OVER in 7 of their last 8 against the San Diego Padres.\u00a0 Milwaukee is 5-2 SU in their last 7 against the Padres and 5-11 SU in their last 16 games on the road against San Diego.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER In 7 of San Diego’s last 8 games and the Padres are 4-10 SU in their last 14 games at home.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 7 of the Padres’ last 10 games at home and they are 2-5 SU in their last 7 games against the Milwaukee Brewers.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER\u00a0 in 7 of San Diego’s last 8 games against the Brewers and the Padres are 11-5 SU in their last 16 home games against Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Harang and Narveson are similar skill levels at this point in Harang’s career.\u00a0 It’s tough to say that Narveson isn’t actually better, but Harang’s experience always plays a role.\u00a0 MLB Oddsmakers set the line extremely close, basically at even odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Brewers (21-22) AT San Diego Padres (18-25) May 19, 2011 at 10:05 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 MIL -115, SD -105 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 MIL -109, SD -101 Opening Total:\u00a0 7 Current Total: 6.5 SP:\u00a0 MIL- Chris Narveson; SD- Aaron Harang The Brewers were battling a streak of futility for a long while, but now they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[266,891],"class_list":["post-15484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484","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=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}