{"id":15848,"date":"2011-05-27T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15848"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:53:10","slug":"home-cookin-brewers-seek-20th-home-win-against-s-f-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/home-cookin-brewers-seek-20th-home-win-against-s-f-giants-15848\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Cookin’: Brewers Seek 20th Home Win Against S.F. Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Giants (27-22) AT Milwaukee Brewers (27-23)<\/strong>
\nMay 27, 2011 at 8:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline: MIL -120, SF +100<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 MIL -123, SF +112<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 6.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 SF- Tim Lincecum; MIL- Shaun Marcum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you like pitchers' duels, tonight's game will feature two great ones in Lincecum and Marcum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first thing you notice when you look at the line for this game is that the total is set below 7.\u00a0 There’s a good reason for that:\u00a0 This game promises to be a pitcher’s duel with both pitchers having ERAs in the low 2.00s.<\/p>\n

Another factor to consider in this game is that the Brewers have the best home record (19-6) in the major leagues.\u00a0 Tim Lincecum certainly has enough tricks in the bag to reverse the Brewers’ fortunes, though.\u00a0 While Lincecum’s record is not that impressive at 4-4, his ERA is just barely over two at 2.06.\u00a0 He is coming off pitching a three hitter in a shut out victory over the A’s on Saturday.\u00a0 In that game, he threw an incredible 133 pitches, the second highest of his career, but also feels he’s been prepared to throw games like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it just goes back to having good rhythm throughout the game. Not expending yourself too much to allow yourself, if you get into a jam, to take it to another level,\u201d\u00a0 Lincecum said after the game.<\/p>\n

While Lincecum is 60-31 on his career, he hasn’t been so great against the Brewers, a team in which he is 2-3 against with a very un-Lincecum ERA of 4.62.\u00a0 However, he has been hot this month and has a 0.91 ERA over the four starts in May.<\/p>\n

Prince Fielder realizes that even though the Brewers are hot, they are facing just the pitcher to shut them down.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a big challenge”\u00a0 Fielder said.\u00a0 “They\u2019re a great team, but we\u2019ve been playing good. Hopefully we can come out on top.\u201d<\/p>\n

For as good as Lincecum has been, the Brewers are sending a pretty darn good one to the mound as well.\u00a0 Shaun Marcum is 6-1 with a 2.37 ERA and hasn’t lost since his season debut.\u00a0 He threw a quality start against the Rockies on Saturday, giving up only 2 runs in eight innings, while fanning 8 batters.\u00a0 He’s only started once in his career against the Giants, a game in which he gave up 2 runs and 5 walks in 5 innings, as a member of the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Last year’s NL rookie of the year Buster Posey is likely out for the season after he broke his leg in a home plate collison in Wednesday night’s loss to the Marlins.\u00a0 It’s a big blow to the Giants.\u00a0 Eli Whiteside replaced Posey in the lineup and did not record a hit.\u00a0 He doesn’t expect to replace Posey’s production, but will need to step up for the Giants to remain competitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s our cleanup hitter and one of the best hitters in baseball. I\u2019ll do my best and play my game, but I\u2019m not going to try to be Buster Posey,\u201d Whiteside said.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 7 games and the Giants are 12-6 SU in their last 18 games.\u00a0 The total has also gone UNDER in 8 of the Giants’ last 11 games against the Milwaukee Brewers.\u00a0 The Giants are 8-3 SU in their last 11 against Milwaukee and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of the Giants’ last 8 games on the road in Milwaukee.\u00a0 The Giants are 7-1 SU in their last 8 road games against the Brewers.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of Milwaukee’s last 6 games and they are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 6 of Milwaukee’s last 8 games at home and the Brewers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 8 of the last 11 against the Giants while the Brewers are 3-8 SU in their last 11 against San Francisco.\u00a0 The Brewers are 1-7 SU in their last 8 games against the Giants at home and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of the Brewers’ last 8 games at home against the Giants.<\/p>\n

As I said in the onset, this is going to be a pitchers’ duel.\u00a0 With both pitchers having ERAs in the low 2s, an ‘under’ seems to make sense given the 6.5 total.\u00a0 The Brewers have been hot, though, and they are at home, making a moneyline bet on the Brewers an even safer proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Giants (27-22) AT Milwaukee Brewers (27-23) May 27, 2011 at 8:10 PM EST Opening Moneyline: MIL -120, SF +100 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 MIL -123, SF +112 Opening Total:\u00a0 6.5 Current Total: 6.5 SP:\u00a0 SF- Tim Lincecum; MIL- Shaun Marcum The first thing you notice when you look at the line for this game is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[266,736],"class_list":["post-15848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848","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=15848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15850,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15848\/revisions\/15850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}