{"id":16235,"date":"2011-06-26T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2011-06-26T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T22:02:17","slug":"giants-seek-5th-straight-win-indians-vs-giants-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/giants-seek-5th-straight-win-indians-vs-giants-betting-preview-16235\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Seek 5th Straight Win: Indians Vs Giants Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Indians (40-35) AT San Francisco Giants (43-34)<\/strong>
\nJune 26, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 SF- 140, CLE +120<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 SF -140, CLE +120<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 7.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total: 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 CLE- Fausto Carmona; SF- Madison Bumgarner<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The young Bumgarner suffered his worst career outing in his last start, and tied major league history for one of the worst starts to a game ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Madison Bumgarner had a wickedly bad performance in his last outing, but that doesn’t happen often with the 21 year old youngster, who went 7-6 in his rookie year with a 3.00 ERA.\u00a0 There were concerns late last season as the velocity of his fastball plummeted 5 mph but he blamed poor mechanics and poor conditioning for the fall off.<\/p>\n

As last season went on, he worked harder and got stronger and has all the makings of a major league stud.\u00a0 While is 4.06 ERA isn’t that impressive this year (Baseball Prospectus predicted a 3.84 ERA, so it’s not far off expectatons), he certainly has time to improve on it and make this season a better success, as he has started only 3-9.\u00a0 He has had the lowest run support in the NL this season at 2.77, so the record is pretty much beyond his control at this point, until the offense steps up.<\/p>\n

He gave up 9 runs in 1\/3rd of an inning last outing, and that is why his ERA is so disgusting.\u00a0 In his ten starts prior to last one, he had a 2.03 ERA over that span, but the Twins were too much, too hot, and began the game with eight consecutive hits.\u00a0 We’re ALL entitled to bad days, and Bumgarner had one, but to expect to be the start of a slump might be saying a bit too much.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty pathetic of me trying to execute pitches,\u201d Bumgarner lamented,\u00a0 \u201cEverything was in the middle of the plate and up. They did what they were supposed to do. They\u2019re supposed to hit that pitch and they did. Obviously, it was terrible pitch execution.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Fausto Carmona, there is more than enough reason for disappointment and concerns about his pitching.\u00a0 In his last 7 starts, he has gone 1-6 with a 9.24 ERA.\u00a0 He gave up 7 runs in 4 2\/3rds innings in an 8-7 loss to the Rockies on Monday and the Rockies produced six of those runs in the fifth inning, which Carmona was unable to get through.\u00a0 On the season, Carmona is 4-9 with a 5.98 ERA.\u00a0 It’s pretty disgusting stuff when you consider he had a very respectable 3.77 ERA last sesaon, while going 13-14.\u00a0 He doesn’t strike out enough hitters –\u00a0 less than 6 per 9 innings, and his stuff is middling at best, so many may have forseen this coming.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Cleveland’s last 9 games and the Indians are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The Indians are 1-4 SU in their last 5 on the road and the total has gone UNDEr in 4 of their last 6 on the road.\u00a0 The total has also gone UNDER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 6 games against San Francisco, while the Indians are 1-4 SU in their last 5 against the Giants.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 7 games and they are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 They are 5-1 SU in their last 6 at home and the total has gone UNDER in 12 of the Giants’ last 16 home games.\u00a0 It has also gone UNDER in 5 of their last 6 against the Cleveland Indians while the Giants are 4-1 SU in their last 5 against Cleveland.<\/p>\n

The Giants are trying to win their fifth game in a row for the third time this season and all indications are that they should make a serious run at a pennant this year.\u00a0 The Indians, however, have not been swept this year, and they will seek to avoid that tonight.\u00a0 The Indians will have to provide a lot of run support for Carmona to pick up the win, and it’s surprising that the Giants aren’t more heavy favorites than they are, both to open betting, and currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Indians (40-35) AT San Francisco Giants (43-34) June 26, 2011 at 8:05 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 SF- 140, CLE +120 Current Line:\u00a0 SF -140, CLE +120 Opening Total:\u00a0 7.5 Current Total: 7 SP:\u00a0 CLE- Fausto Carmona; SF- Madison Bumgarner Madison Bumgarner had a wickedly bad performance in his last outing, but that doesn’t happen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[57,736],"class_list":["post-16235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235","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=16235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16236,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions\/16236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}