{"id":16389,"date":"2011-07-08T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2011-07-08T16:21:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T21:21:02","slug":"new-york-mets-and-san-francisco-giants-open-up-a-three-game-set-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/new-york-mets-and-san-francisco-giants-open-up-a-three-game-set-betting-preview-16389\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets And San Francisco Giants Open up a Three Game Set – Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Mets (45-43) AT San Francisco Giants (50-39)<\/strong>
\nJuly 8th, 2011 at 10:15 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 SFG -145, NYM +125<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line: SFG -135, NYM +114<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 6.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 NYM- R.A. Dickey; SFG- Ryan Vogelsong<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey will take the mound for the Mets tonight. Dickey is 4-7 with a 3.68 ERA this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ryan Vogelsong is one of the least likely candidates to have been named to the all-star game, after appearing to be nothing more than a middling bottom of the rotation pitcher so far throughout his career.\u00a0 This year has been different.\u00a0 In his last 11 starts he has posted a 1.67 ERA.\u00a0 Vogelsong spent the last four years in Japan and it appears to have paid off.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s never been a time in my career when this seemed like even a realistic possibility,\u201d Vogelsong said blissfully.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cA year ago, almost to the day, I got released and didn\u2019t know if I would ever pitch again.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s a strange time for things to come together.\u00a0 Vogelsong is not young; he’s 33.\u00a0 On Sunday against the Tigers he gave up 2 earned runs in 6 2\/3rds innings, falling a third of an inning shy of a quality start, but he did not factor in the decision as the Giants lost 6-3.<\/p>\n

The Giants are leading the NL and tonight they will be vying for their third straight victory.\u00a0 The won the final two games of a 4 game set against the Padres this week, with a 2-1 win last night, as Zito (who I said was washed up in my closing paragraph) pitched eight solid innings, giving up only 1 run.<\/p>\n

Giants infielder Pablo Sandoval picked up another single to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.\u00a0 He is batting .302 on the year so far with 27 RBIs, 8 HRs, 12 doubles, and 23 runs.\u00a0 His OBP is .344, but he is hitting .352 in his last 12 games.\u00a0 Sandoval is also .322 in his 15 career games against the Mets.<\/p>\n

The Mets suffered their first loss since Jos\u00e9 Reyes’ injury last night, as they fell 6-0 to the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came in here and had a very, very good series without Jos\u00e9, and we\u2019ve got to move forward,\u201d Mets manager Terry Collins said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got our work cut out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mets went 0 of 6 with runners in scoring position, thus the reason they scored no runs…Daniel Murphy hit two singles and is now batting .362 over his last 11 games and he is right at .300 for the season.\u00a0 He has 35 RBIs and 35 runs, as well, this year, to go along with a .423 slugging percentage.<\/p>\n

R.A. Dickey will take the mound for the Mets.\u00a0 Dickey, a knuckleballer, is 4-7 this year with a 3.68 ERA.\u00a0 In his last 6 starts he has gone 2-1 with a 2.48 ERA.\u00a0 In his last outing he gave up only 1 run and 2 hits in 5 innings, as the Mets won in a 10 inning thriller over the Yankees.\u00a0 Dickey exited the game in the fifth due to tightness in his gluteous maximus after he slipped on a wet mound.\u00a0 Dickey did not expect it to be a problem for tonight’s matchup, though.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The New York Mets are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER in 7 of their last 8 games.\u00a0 The total has also gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 on the road and the Mets are 7-2 SU in their last 9 on the road.\u00a0 The Mets are 2-6 SU in their last 8 games against the Giants while the total has gone OVER In 8 of the last 11 games on the road against the Giants.\u00a0 The Mets are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games on the road against the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n

The Giants are 11-5 SU in their last 16 games and the total has gone OVER In 5 of their last 6 games.\u00a0 It has gone UNDER in 14 of the last 21 at home and the Giants are 7-2 SU in their last 9 games at home.\u00a0 The Giants are 6-2 SU In their last 8 games against the Mets and the total has gone OVER In 8 of the Giants’ last 11 games at home against the Mets.\u00a0 The Giants are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games against the Mets at home.<\/p>\n

Given the fact that both pitchers are pretty hot and pitching low ERA -ball, it’s easy to understand why the total is set low on this one, and betting on it is a risky proposition.\u00a0\u00a0 The Giants, however, are clearly the better team, and a moneyline bet on them seems to be a good idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Mets (45-43) AT San Francisco Giants (50-39) July 8th, 2011 at 10:15 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 SFG -145, NYM +125 Current Line: SFG -135, NYM +114 Opening Total:\u00a0 6.5 Current Total:\u00a0 6.5 SP:\u00a0 NYM- R.A. Dickey; SFG- Ryan Vogelsong Ryan Vogelsong is one of the least likely candidates to have been named to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":4509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[43,736],"class_list":["post-16389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389","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=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16390,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions\/16390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}