{"id":15975,"date":"2011-06-03T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15975"},"modified":"2011-06-03T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:21:37","slug":"nl-betting-preview-colorado-opens-3-game-set-against-s-f-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nl-betting-preview-colorado-opens-3-game-set-against-s-f-giants-15975\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Betting Preview: Colorado Opens 3 Game Set against S.F. Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (26-29) AT San Francisco Giants (31-25)<\/strong>
\nJune 3rd, 2011 at 10:15 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 SF -145, COL +125<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 SF -125, COL +104<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 7<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 COL- Juan Nicasio; SF- Matt Cain<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Aubrey Huff seems to be breaking out of his season-long funk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Matt Cain has been pitching well, but getting run support has been a problem for Cain, who has a losing record of 3-4 despite a respectable 3.88 ERA.\u00a0 What’s more, in his last two starts he has received no runs at all.\u00a0 As we know, it’s impossible to win a game without any run support.\u00a0 Against the Rockies, Cain is 2-0 with a 1.57 ERA in three career home starts and the Giants are 5-3 in the season series, and they swept the Rockies at AT&T Park May 6-8.<\/p>\n

The Rockies are hoping to rebound after a terrible month of May, in which they won only 8 of 29 games and went from 18-8 to being three games under .500.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a new month, a new start for us.\u201d left fielder Carlos Gonzalez said.\u00a0 Moreover, the Rockies have dropped 11 of 14 on the road and are 1-2 in their current 9 game3 trip which will conclude with 3 games against the horribly struggling Padres.<\/p>\n

Juan Nicasio will take the mound for the Rockies, after having a very impressive major league debut.\u00a0 He gave up only one run (unearned) and 6 hits in 7 innings and recorded the win.\u00a0 He is considered one of the Rockies top pitching prospects.\u00a0 He posted a 5.30 strike out to walk ratio over the last two seasons in the minors due to his strong arm and outstanding pitch control.\u00a0 According to Baseball Prospectus, he was projected to be no more than a “back-end starter” at the major league level, but his debut provided hope otherwise.\u00a0 His PECOTA projection calls for a 9-11 record with a 5.27 ERA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited because it\u2019s my second start in the big leagues, but I\u2019m going to just try to make my pitches,\u201d Nicasio said through an interpreter. \u201cI\u2019m not worried about what team I\u2019m pitching against, just what I need to do. I\u2019m going to try to make my pitch down in the zone. I always try to do that, throw down in the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Rockies sluggers Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez have struggled against the Giants this season.\u00a0 Tulowitzki is batting .207 and Gonzalez is at .185.\u00a0 Life time against Matt Caini, Tulowitzki is 17 of 51 with 4 HRs, 4 doubles, and a triple; but Carlos Gonzalez is 3 of 25 with 7 Ks.\u00a0 In the last series against the Giants, they combined to go 3 of 20.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 4 of Colorado’s last 6 games and the Rockies are 2-7 SU in their last 9 games.\u00a0 The Rockies are 1-5 SU in their last 6 on the road and they are 4-9 SU in their last 13 against the Giants.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Colorado’s last 13 games on the road against the Giants and the Rockies are 0-5 SU In their last 5 games on the road against the Giants.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Giants are 9-3 SU in their last 12 games at home and the total has gone UNDER In 8 of their last 11 at home.\u00a0 The Giants are 9-4 SU in their last 13 games against the Colorado Rockies and the total has gone UNDER in 12 of the last 13 home games against Colorado.\u00a0 The Giants are 5-0 SU in their last 5 at home against the Rockies.<\/p>\n

We’ll get to see what Nicasio is really made of tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 Aubrey Huff has finally snapped out of his funk and should give the rookie a good test.\u00a0 San Francisco is favored, perhaps due to Nicasio’s lack of major league experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (26-29) AT San Francisco Giants (31-25) June 3rd, 2011 at 10:15 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 SF -145, COL +125 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 SF -125, COL +104 Opening Total:\u00a0 7 Current Total:\u00a0 7 SP:\u00a0 COL- Juan Nicasio; SF- Matt Cain Matt Cain has been pitching well, but getting run support has been a problem for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[4988,166,4989,1570,736],"class_list":["post-15975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-aubrey-huff","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-juan-nicasio","tag-matt-cain","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975","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=15975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15977,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions\/15977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}