{"id":16006,"date":"2011-06-06T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16006"},"modified":"2011-06-06T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:24:21","slug":"rocky-road-struggling-colorado-rockies-take-on-hot-padres-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/rocky-road-struggling-colorado-rockies-take-on-hot-padres-betting-preview-16006\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Road: Struggling Colorado Rockies Take on Hot Padres – Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (27-31) AT San Diego Padres (27-33)<\/strong>
\nJune 6th, 2011 at 10:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 SDG -105, COL -115<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 COL -112, SDG +102<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 7<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 COL- Clayton Mortenson; SDG- Clayton Richard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tulowitzki has hit 3 HRs in 12 at bats against Clayton Richard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fates and fortunes couldn’t run much more opposite than these two teams.\u00a0 The Padres, after starting the season 19-31, have won 8 of their last 10 games.\u00a0 The Rockies, meanwhile, have lost 12 of their last 16 to go from 4 games over .500 to 4 games under.<\/p>\n

San Diego won their third game in a row over the Astros on Sunday, by a count of 7-2.\u00a0 The amazing thing, perhaps, is that the Padres haven’t been hitting that well and still have been winning.\u00a0 4.2 runs and a .259 BA isn’t sensational, of course, but it’s worlds better than the 1.3 runs and .183 BA they posted earlier in a 10 game stretch in which they lost 8.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been playing a lot better, more like we are capable of playing and how we want to play,\u201d Chase Headley gloated. \u201cFortunately, we didn\u2019t play bad enough that we played ourselves out of it early. We are still within striking distance. I like the way we\u2019re playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Padres play hasn’t propelled them out of the cellar, they have pulled to within 6.5 games of San Francisco, which represents the smallest difference between first and last place teams in all divisions.\u00a0 The problem for the Padres has been their 12-21 record at home, while they are a respectable 15-12 on the road.<\/p>\n

Since the series in mid-May, in which the Padres won 2 of 3, the Rockies have cooled off considerably.\u00a0 In Sunday’s 2-1 loss to the Giants, the Rockies managed only 4 hits and they have scored 3 runs or fewer in 11 of their last 12.<\/p>\n

Rockies manager Jim Tracy didn’t make any convoluted or esoteric response to the struggles, simply saying \u201cGot to hit, that\u2019s all I\u2019ve got…You give up two runs, you should win. It\u2019s that simple. We gave up six runs in the series but we only scored four.\u201d<\/p>\n

It doesn’t help when the leadoff batter (Eric Young) is batting .190 over his last 6 games, not to mention his six strikeouts, and Todd Helton has been less than impressive too with an even more pitiful .077 BA over the last five games.<\/p>\n

Facing Clayton Richard might help.\u00a0 He gave up 3 runs and 8 hits in less than 5 innings last Wednesday against the Braves and his ERA of 4.52 leaves a little to be desired.\u00a0 It’s his first start against the Rockies in 2011, but he faced them 6 times last season, going 1-2 with a 6.15 ERA, though he won his only decision at home where he posted a much better 3.00 ERA.\u00a0 Todd Helton should pull out of his slump today, given the fact that he is hitting .429 lifetime against Richard.\u00a0 Tulowitzki has been even more impressive against Richard, hitting .583 with 3 HRs in 12 at bats.<\/p>\n

Clay Mortenson will take the mound for the Rockies.\u00a0 He’s 1-3 on the year with a 3.69 ERA and has never faced the Padres before.\u00a0 He gave up 5 runs in 4 innings in Tuesday night’s 8-2 loss against the Dodgers.\u00a0 In his last 3 starts, he has struggled, posting a 5.94 ERA.\u00a0 He’s known to have a good ground ball ratio, but was cut by the A’s last season as they cleared a spot for Grant Balfour.\u00a0 If he can keep the ball on the ground, the Rockies stand a great chance tonight.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Colorado’s last 5 games and the Rockies are 3-9 SU in their last 12 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 on the road while the Rockies are 3-12 SU in their last 15 on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in all 5 of the last 5 against the Padres and the Rockies are 2-4 SU in their last 6 against San Diego.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of the last 7 games on the road in San Diego and the Padres are 6-1 SU in their last 7 road games against San Diego.<\/p>\n

San Diego is 7-2 SU in their last 9 game and the total has gone OVER in 4 of theirl ast 6 games.\u00a0 The Padres are 4-1 SU in their last 5 at home and they are 4-2 SU in their last 6 against the Colorado Rockies.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in all 5 of their last 5 games against the Rockies and the Padres are 1-6 SU in their last 7 at home against Colorado.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 5 of their last 7 home games against the Rockies.<\/p>\n

It should be interesting to see how Mortenson handles the Padres.\u00a0 He’s inexperienced and young, but has shown good stuff and has great control over the ball.\u00a0 Clayton Richard has struggled, and the Rockies have had good success against him.\u00a0 The line for this game is pretty even, but given the Richards’ struggles, I would have to favor the Rockies in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (27-31) AT San Diego Padres (27-33) June 6th, 2011 at 10:05 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 SDG -105, COL -115 Current Line:\u00a0 COL -112, SDG +102 Opening Total:\u00a0 7 Current Total:\u00a0 6.5 SP:\u00a0 COL- Clayton Mortenson; SDG- Clayton Richard Fates and fortunes couldn’t run much more opposite than these two teams.\u00a0 The Padres, after […]<\/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":[166,891],"class_list":["post-16006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-san-diego-padres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006","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=16006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16007,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions\/16007"}],"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=16006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}