{"id":16095,"date":"2011-06-14T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2011-06-14T12:56:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:56:06","slug":"late-night-special-cincinnati-reds-take-on-dodgers-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/late-night-special-cincinnati-reds-take-on-dodgers-in-l-a-16095\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night Special: Cincinnati Reds Take on Dodgers in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Reds (35-33) AT L.A. Dodgers (31-37)<\/strong>
\nJune 11, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 LAD -125, CIN +105<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 LOS -129, CIN +109<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 6.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 CIN- Johnny Cueto; LAD- Clayton Kershaw<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kershaw's stats are still OK for the season, but he has struggled mightily of late<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This one has all the looks of a pitchers duel, and if you like low scoring baseball, this might be the game for you.\u00a0 Though Clayton Kershaw has struggled of late, he is still 6-3 with a 3.44 ERA and Johnny Cueto of Cincinnati has an ERA under two (1.93 for good measure) and a 3-2 record.<\/p>\n

Cueto is coming off one of his best outings of the season.\u00a0 He threw scoreless innings and struck out 8 batters in a 3-0 win over the Giants on Thursday of last week.\u00a0 He hasn’t allowed more than 3 runs in any of his 7 starts.<\/p>\n

Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier have combined to go 8 of 18 against Cueto and have also hit three home runs.\u00a0 Kemp is hitting .457 with 7 HRs\u00a0 and 16 RBIs in the last 10 games, too.<\/p>\n

Kershaw, conversely, has struggled.\u00a0 Last matchup against Cueto, he didn’t earn a decision, but he gave up 6 runs in 6 2\/3rds innings, which by all means is a poor outing.\u00a0 He gave up 7 runs in 6 innings in Colorado on Thursday but once again didn’t record a decision.\u00a0 His ERA has went from 2.62 on May 29th to well over three now.\u00a0 At home, he has been good.\u00a0 He has a 4-1 record with a 2.61 ERA, but he lost his last outing at home to the Reds on Monday.<\/p>\n

Joey Votto has hit really well against Kershaw, with a .308 lifetime average and 2 HRs.\u00a0 He hit a 3 run HR in the 8th inning on Monday to give the Reds a 4 run lead.\u00a0 This month so far, he is hitting .348 with 3 HRs and 12 RBIs.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Votto) is very confident and he has a tremendous idea of what he\u2019s doing out there because he studies,\u201d manager Dusty Baker said. \u201cHe stays all business and comes to play. I mean, he has fun, but he\u2019s basically a no-nonsense guy when the game starts. He\u2019s just a pleasure to be around and he\u2019s very easy to manage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Rolen is questionable with a foot injury that resulted from hitting a foul ball off his foot.\u00a0 He said “I’m not dead and it’s not broken…I’ll be hobbling on it.”\u00a0 From that diagnosis, we can expect him to play, but his effectiveness may not be there.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 8-4 SU in their last 12 games and the total has gone UNDER in 5 of their last 6 games.\u00a0 The Giants are 6-3 SU in their last 9 on teh road and they are 8-1 SU in their last 9 against the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 8 of their last 10 against the Diamondbacks and it has also gone UNDER in 5 of their last 7 games on the road in Arizona.\u00a0 The Giants are 8-2 SU in their last 10 games on the road against Arizona.<\/p>\n

The Diamondbacks are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 at home.\u00a0 The Diamondbacks are 10-3 SU in their last 13 home games and they are 1-8 SU in their last 9 games against the San Francisco Giants.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Arizona’s last 10 games against the Giants and it has also gone UNDER in 5 of the last 7 against the Giants.\u00a0 The Diamondbacks are 2-8 SU in their last 10 home games against the Giants.<\/p>\n

Given Kemp and Ethier’s success against Cueto, the Reds could be in for some trouble tonight.\u00a0 The total is set low at 6.5, and it won’t take a lot of run support for either team to win.\u00a0 The Dodgers are narrow favorites in this one and given their recent hitting it’s easy to see why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Reds (35-33) AT L.A. Dodgers (31-37) June 11, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 LAD -125, CIN +105 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 LOS -129, CIN +109 Opening Total:\u00a0 6.5 Current Total:\u00a0 6.5 SP:\u00a0 CIN- Johnny Cueto; LAD- Clayton Kershaw This one has all the looks of a pitchers duel, and if you like low scoring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[78,429],"class_list":["post-16095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-los-angeles-dodgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095","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=16095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16096,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions\/16096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}