{"id":16016,"date":"2011-06-07T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2011-06-07T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T19:56:44","slug":"bad-hitting-prevails-colorado-rockies-take-on-san-diego-in-game-2-of-3-game-padres-homestand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/bad-hitting-prevails-colorado-rockies-take-on-san-diego-in-game-2-of-3-game-padres-homestand-16016\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Hitting Prevails: Colorado Rockies Take on San Diego in Game 2 of 3 Game Padres Homestand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (28-31) AT San Diego Padres (27-34)<\/strong>
\nJune 07, 2011 at 10:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 COL -145, SDG +125<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 COL -144, SDG +125<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 6.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 COL- Ubaldo J\u00edmenez, SDG- Tim Stauffer<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stauffer is 1-4 this season despite very solid pitching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ubaldo J\u00edmenez has fallen off this season after an outstanding 2010.\u00a0 He went the first two months this season without a victory, after recording 19 last season.\u00a0 He managed to shut out the L.A. Dodgers though on Wednesday, holding them scoreless and allowing only four hits.\u00a0 He also struck out 7 and didn’t walk any, the first time he has accomplished that in ten starts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a couple things and I said, `This is what I\u2019m going to work on,\u201d\u2019 Jimenez said after his performance. \u201cI been working really hard. It\u2019s not like it came one day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Run support has been a problem for the Rockies, lately, however.\u00a0 They have scored 3 or fewer runs in their last eight games.\u00a0 It just so happened that Monday three runs was enough, as the Padres went scoreless.<\/p>\n

Clayton Mortenson lasted six innings and the bullpen closed out the last three in solid form.\u00a0 Manager Jim Tracy was pleased, simply saying “A great pitching performance by our entire staff.”<\/p>\n

J\u00edmenez has, however, been effective against the Padres.\u00a0 He’s won his last five starts against them with a 3.27 ERA, also striking out 46 hitters in 33 innings.\u00a0 He hasn’t lost a decision to the Padres since August 30th, 2008.<\/p>\n

The Padres have been horrible with runners in scoring position.\u00a0 They stranded 11 on Monday and have dropped 8 of their last 10 home meetings against the Rockies.<\/p>\n

Bud Black didn’t find any mystery in the loss, commenting, “We had some base runners but we just couldn’t break through…We couldn’t get that big hit.”\u00a0 Getting that “big hit” is what separates the good teams from the mediocre and bad.\u00a0 The Padres have to find a way to get more hitting from their lineup.<\/p>\n

Tim Stauffer will take the mound for the Padres.\u00a0 Despite having an ERA under 4.00 (3.99 for good measure!), he is 1-4 and obviously hasn’t been getting run support.\u00a0 He hasn’t started against Colorado since September 23, 2009.\u00a0 In that game he gave up 2 runs in 4 2\/3rds innings, and did not record a decision.\u00a0 He has made four relief appearances against the Rockies, and he gave up only three runs in 7 1\/3rds innings.\u00a0 He has only beaten the Rockies once, however, and that was about six years ago.\u00a0 None the less, he and the Rockies are favored in a game that is more about ugly hitting than sensation pitching.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

Colorado is 5-12 SU in their last 17 games and the total has gone UNDER in all 5 of their last 5 games.\u00a0 It has also gone UNDER in all 5 of their last 5 road\u00a0 games.\u00a0 The Rockies are 4-12 SU in their last 16 on the road and the total has gone OVER In 6 of their last 7 against the San Diego Padres.\u00a0 The Rockies are 7-1 SU in their last 8 on the road in San Diego.<\/p>\n

The Padres are 7-3 SU in their last 10 games and they are 4-2 SU in their last 6 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 8 of the Padres’ last 12 games at home and it has gone OVER in 6 of their last 7 against the Rockies.\u00a0 The Padres are 1-7 SU in their last 8 home games against the Rockies.<\/p>\n

This game isn’t going to be pretty.\u00a0 The total is set at six and there’s a high likelihood that it goes far below that, possibly another 3-0 thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado Rockies (28-31) AT San Diego Padres (27-34) June 07, 2011 at 10:05 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 COL -145, SDG +125 Current Line:\u00a0 COL -144, SDG +125 Opening Total:\u00a0 6.5 Current Total:\u00a0 6 SP:\u00a0 COL- Ubaldo J\u00edmenez, SDG- Tim Stauffer Ubaldo J\u00edmenez has fallen off this season after an outstanding 2010.\u00a0 He went the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[166,891],"class_list":["post-16016","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\/16016","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=16016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16018,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions\/16018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}