{"id":16125,"date":"2011-06-16T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16125"},"modified":"2011-06-16T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:42:41","slug":"arizona-diamondbacks-look-for-first-victory-against-san-francisco-giants-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/arizona-diamondbacks-look-for-first-victory-against-san-francisco-giants-betting-preview-16125\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks Look For First Victory Against San Francisco Giants – Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Giants (39-29) AT Arizona Diamondbacks (37-32)<\/strong>
\nJune 16, 2011 at 9:40 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 ARI -130; SFG +110<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 ARI -144; SFG +125<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 8<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 8.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 SFG- Ryan Vogelsong; ARI- Ian Kennedy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Justin Upton went 2 of 4 last night and is hitting .285 on the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Giants have been red hot as winners of their last five contests.\u00a0 They won 5-2 last night to remain perfect against the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last five games against them they have made the plays when it has counted,\u201d Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said. \u201cWe have been in the games and they have responded better than we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

The games have been close, however.\u00a0 No game has been decided by more than three runs.\u00a0 Pat Burrell added that note to his post-game statement, saying “We didn’t exactly blow them out, but we got enough for him (Madison Bumgarner).”\u00a0 Bumgarner had previously received the 5th worst run support in the majors with only 2.65 runs per game.<\/p>\n

The Giants will send Ryan Vogelsong to the mound tonight.\u00a0 Vogelsong is 4-1 with an outstanding 1.81 ERA.\u00a0 Saturday he was very good, giving up only 2 runs and 8 hits in 6 innings (an inning shy of a quality start), as the Giants won 3-2 on a Nate Schierholtz pinch hit walk-off single.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not really happy with the way I threw, but the results turned out all right,\u201d Vogelsong told the team\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n

Ian Kennedy has been good this season, too.\u00a0 Kennedy has won 7 of 9 decisions this year and boasts a 3.23 ERA.\u00a0 Kennedy’s game relies on excellent control.\u00a0 His pitches aren’t particularly “nasty,” but he keeps it in the strike zone and avoids walking many batters (only 70 in 194 innings last year as he went 9-10 with a 3.80 ERA).<\/p>\n

Kennedy is still only 26 years old and can still lower his walk rate further.\u00a0 The Diamondbacks lost Max Scherzer to obtain Kennedy, and while Kennedy is good, he’s not the prospect Scherzer is.<\/p>\n

Kennedy is 3-2 with a 3.88 ERA in his last 8 starts at home.\u00a0 When he’s on the road, he’s been even better, with a 4-0 record and a 2.40 ERA.\u00a0 He didn’t have a good road outing on Saturday though, as he gave up 5 runs and 3 homers in 8 innings…still, he got credit for the win, only further bolstering his impressive record.\u201cThe offense took care of it and I tried to get innings as much as possible,\u201d Kennedy told the Diamondbacks\u2019 official website. \u201cI was really, really happy that (Gibson) let me go into the eighth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 4-1 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 6 of the Giants’ last 8 games.\u00a0 The Total has gone OVER in 4 of the Giants’ last 6 road games and the Giants are 5-1 SU in their last 6 on the road.\u00a0 The Giants are 5-0 SU in their last 5 against Arizona.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 9 of their last 12 against Arizona and the total has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 on the road against the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 The Giants are 10-2 SU In their last 12 games on the road in Arizona.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER In 4 of Arizona’s last 6 games and it has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 6 at home. The Diamondbacks are 2-4 SU in their last 6 home games and they are 10-5 SU in their last 15 home games.\u00a0 The Diamondbacks are 0-5 SU in their last 5 against the Giants and the total has gone UNDER in 9 of Arizona’s last 12 games against San Francisco.\u00a0 The total has also gone UNDER in 4 of the last 6 at home against the Giants while the Diamondbacks are 2-10 SU in their last 12 home games against the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

Given the dominance of both pitchers, the current total of 8.5 seems high, especially given the fact it has shifted up another half-run.\u00a0 Vogelsburg is very unproven, but he has also been very good this season.\u00a0 Kennedy is the more proven entity and is a good reason why the Diamondbacks are favored in tonight’s matchup despite not having beat the Giants all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco Giants (39-29) AT Arizona Diamondbacks (37-32) June 16, 2011 at 9:40 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 ARI -130; SFG +110 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 ARI -144; SFG +125 Opening Total:\u00a0 8 Current Total:\u00a0 8.5 SP:\u00a0 SFG- Ryan Vogelsong; ARI- Ian Kennedy The Giants have been red hot as winners of their last five contests.\u00a0 They won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[50,736],"class_list":["post-16125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125","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=16125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16126,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions\/16126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}