{"id":16027,"date":"2011-06-08T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16027"},"modified":"2011-06-08T14:42:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:42:52","slug":"floyds-flow-gavin-floyd-and-the-white-sox-play-host-to-the-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/floyds-flow-gavin-floyd-and-the-white-sox-play-host-to-the-mariners-16027\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd’s Flow: Gavin Floyd and the White Sox Play Host to the Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Mariners (31-30) AT Chicago White Sox (30-33)<\/strong>
\nJune 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 CWS -150, SEA +130<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 CWS -144, SEA +125<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 8<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 SEA- J. Vargas; CWS- G. Floyd<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paul Konerko has hit very well against Vargas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Mariners haven’t won in Chicago in a while, and with Gavin Floyd taking the mound, they may not find things getting any easier.\u00a0 Floyd is 3-4 with a 4.92 ERA in his 10 starts against the Seattle Mariners, but over his last 22 innings he has not allowed a run.\u00a0 He struck out 18 hitters over those 22 innings and only gave up 13 hits.\u00a0 In a quality start, he gave up only 3 hits in 8 innings of a shutout victory at Seattle on May 7th.<\/p>\n

Seattle second baseman Adam Kennedy didn’t go in depth on Floyd’s pitching.\u00a0 “He pitched good.\u00a0 He didn’t get in a lot of trouble.”<\/p>\n

What more is that Floyd has been pitching well of late against all teams.\u00a0 In his last three starts he has compiled a 2.61 ERA and he gave up only 4 runs last Wednesday in 6 2\/3rds innings work.\u00a0 The four runs were all they scored though as the White Sox won 7-4.<\/p>\n

Paul Konerko has come around lately, as well.\u00a0 He’s hit 4 home runs in the last 6 games and hit .536 with 10 RBIs over his last 8.\u00a0 He’s batting .413 with 9 HRs and 15 RBIs over his 14 game home hitting streak against the Mariners.\u00a0 Against Jason Vargas he is 3 of 5 with a homer.<\/p>\n

Vargas just pitched his first complete game in six years and has done reasonably well this year, with a 4-3 record and a 3.96 ERA.\u00a0 He gave up 6 runs in 3 innings of a 7-1 loss to the Yankees on May 29th and he threw a four hitter in a 7-0 win against Tampa Bay on Friday.<\/p>\n

Kennedy offered a little more insight as to his own pitcher’s strengths.\u00a0\u00a0 “For some reason, the lefties that master that (changing speeds) seem to have a lot of success – and Jason is one of them.”<\/p>\n

Last season against the White Sox Vargas was not able to do that.\u00a0 He recorded a 5.73 ERA with no decision in two starts.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Seattle’s last 5 games and the Mariners are 14-6 SU in their last 20 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER In 4 of Seattle’s last 5 games on the road and the total has also gone UNDER in 4 of the last 5 games against the White Sox.\u00a0 The Mariners are 1-8 SU in their last 9 against the White Sox and the Mariners are 0-5 SU in their last 5 road games against the White Sox.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 4 of the last 6 road games in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER In 7 of the White Sox’s last 10 games and they are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 6 of their last 9 at home and they are 8-3 SU in their last 11 games at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the White Sox’s last 5 games in Seattle and they are 8-1 SU in their last 9 games against the Mariners.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in 4 of the White Sox’ last 6 games at home against the Mariners and the White Sox are 5-0 SU in their last 5 at home against Seattle.<\/p>\n

The White Sox find themselves favored in this one with a relatively high total of 8 set for the game.\u00a0 Neither pitcher is awesome, but Floyd’s success against the Mariners is noteworthy and makes the White Sox the correct call here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle Mariners (31-30) AT Chicago White Sox (30-33) June 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 CWS -150, SEA +130 Current Line:\u00a0 CWS -144, SEA +125 Opening Total:\u00a0 8 Current Total:\u00a0 8 SP:\u00a0 SEA- J. Vargas; CWS- G. Floyd The Mariners haven’t won in Chicago in a while, and with Gavin Floyd taking the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[171,220],"class_list":["post-16027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-seattle-mariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027","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=16027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16029,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16027\/revisions\/16029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}