{"id":16188,"date":"2011-06-22T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16188"},"modified":"2011-06-22T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T18:09:31","slug":"closing-game-of-chicago-series-cubs-and-white-sox-wrap-it-up-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/closing-game-of-chicago-series-cubs-and-white-sox-wrap-it-up-betting-preview-16188\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Game of Chicago Series: Cubs and White Sox Wrap it Up – Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chi Cubs (30-43) AT Chi White Sox (36-39)<\/strong>
\nJune 22, 2011 at 8:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -190, CUB +170<\/strong>
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -185, CUB +159<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 8.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 8.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 Cubs- Doug Davis, White Sox- Jake Peavy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dunn has struck out 7 of his last 12 at bats, and now has 91 strikeouts on the season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been anything but an injury-free year for Jake Peavy, who started the season on the DL and then after five starts ended up back on the DL with a groin strain.<\/p>\n

Since he was acquired by the White Sox in 2009, Peavy has gone 12-7 with a 4.21 ERA.\u00a0 Peavy came at the cost of two seasons and $33 Million.\u00a0 Peavy closed out last season in impressive form, striking out 71 hitters against 13 walks in 78 1\/3rds innings over 12 starts, allowing only 30 runs.<\/p>\n

His ERA wasn’t great last year at 4.63, but it was under 3.00 in 2008 (2.85 exactly), when he went 10-11.\u00a0 His PECOTA projection for this season is for a 12-7 record with a 3.24 ERA.\u00a0 In his 10 starts against the Cubs, he is 5-2 with a 2.40 ERA.\u00a0 In 2010, he struck out 14 batters in 14 innings and went 2-0.<\/p>\n

Game One went to the Cubs 6-3 and Game Two went to the White Sox 3-2, so this game will decide the series.\u00a0 The White Sox have won 17 consecutive interleague series and they have gone 12-5 against the Cubs.<\/p>\n

The Cubs are sending Doug Davis to the mound.\u00a0 Davis is 1-5 on the year with a 4.95 ERA and he gave up 1 run and 3 hits in 7 1\/3rds innings of a 3-1 win over the New York Yankees on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy with the way I threw and happy I got my first win out of the way as a Cub,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n

In his 5 starts against the White Sox, he has gone 1-3 with a 4.73 ERA.\u00a0 Davis wasn’t particularly good last season, either, when his WHIP was over 2, at 2.06.\u00a0 His ERA was a disgusting 7.51.\u00a0 He’s old and hasn’t really ever been very effective.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The Chicago Cubs are 7-15 SU in their last 22 games and they are 1-4 SU in their last 5 on the road.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER In 5 of their last 7 games against the White Sox and the Cubs are 3-8 SU in their last 11 against the White Sox.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 13 of the Cubs’ last 19 games on the road against the White Sox.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of the White Sox last 7 games and they are 4-2 SU in their last 6 games at home.\u00a0 The total has also gone UNDER in 5 of their last 7 games against the Cubs and they are 8-3 SU in their last 11 against the Cubs.\u00a0 The White Sox are 8-3 SU in their last 11 at home against the Cubs and the total has gone UNDER in 13 of the last 19 home games against the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

With their ace on the mound against a washed up Doug Davis, it’s easy to see why the White Sox are favored.\u00a0 Peavy needs to stay healthy because he’s very effective when he is, and with a contract his size he should be producing at least as good as a 2nd starter, if not an ace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chi Cubs (30-43) AT Chi White Sox (36-39) June 22, 2011 at 8:10 PM EST Opening Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -190, CUB +170 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 CWS -185, CUB +159 Opening Total:\u00a0 8.5 Current Total:\u00a0 8.5 SP:\u00a0 Cubs- Doug Davis, White Sox- Jake Peavy It’s been anything but an injury-free year for Jake Peavy, who started the season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[180,171],"class_list":["post-16188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188","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=16188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16190,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions\/16190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}