{"id":16448,"date":"2011-07-15T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T21:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2011-07-15T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T21:46:22","slug":"fisters-dilemma-struggling-mariners-attempt-to-provide-fister-with-run-support-against-rangers-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/fisters-dilemma-struggling-mariners-attempt-to-provide-fister-with-run-support-against-rangers-betting-preview-16448\/","title":{"rendered":"Fister’s Dilemma: Struggling Mariners Attempt to Provide Fister with Run Support against Rangers – Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Rangers (52-41) AT Seattle Mariners (43-49)<\/strong>
\nJuly 15, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 TEX -130, SEA +110<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 TEX -114, SEA -105<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 7<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 TEX- Colby Lewis; SEA- Doug Fister<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fister is receiving just over 2 runs of support per game and is 3-10 despite an ERA in the low 3s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There has probably never been a pitcher as frustrated as Doug Fister is right now.\u00a0 Despite excellent pitching and a 3.09 ERA, he was won just 3 of 13 decisions and has received the lowest run support in the entire major league, only further proving the irrelevancy of pitchers’ records, but nonetheless a source of frustration for the Mariners’ hurler.\u00a0 Fister has received only 2.15 runs per 9 innings and has received 8 runs combined over his last 7 starts.\u00a0 Naturally, he is 0-5 in that stretch.<\/p>\n

Texas has seemingly moved on unaffected from the bizarre death accident I mentioned in yesterday’s writeup, and Hamilton continued his excellent play by hitting a solo homer in the first inning, as Nelson Cruz and Mike Napoli also banged homers later in the game.\u00a0 Derek Holland also threw another shutout.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of positives for a team that has now won 8 straight and have outscored their opponents 58 to 22 during the run, their longest win streak since an 11 game streak in June of 2010.\u00a0 Comparatively, the Mariners have only scored 9 runs in the last 6 games, and once again, as I said it would – the total went under last night, with Texas scoring all 5 runs in a game with the total set at 7.<\/p>\n

With the Mariners hitting .221 on the season, the only reason to fear totals going over are when there is reason to suspect the opposing team to have a very good night.\u00a0 That reason is certainly relevant against the Rangers, but Fister will continue to pitch well, run support or not.<\/p>\n

Mariners manager Eric Wedge says his hitters have to “take some risks, get out there and square up the ball..(and) make adjustments to what you are seeing from the opposing pitcher.”\u00a0 I don’t think it is that simple.\u00a0 I think the Mariners simply need to deal one of their top shelf pitchers for some offense.\u00a0 Teams can’t win on pitching alone, and the Mariners know that all too well, sitting 6 games below .500<\/p>\n

The Rangers will send Colby Lewis to the mound tonight.\u00a0 Lewis is 8-7 with a 4.38 ERA and will attempt to win his first game at Seattle’s Safeco Field.\u00a0 He is 4-0 against the Mariners at home, but in his 6 starts at Safeco he is 0-4 with a 3.72 ERA…not that such is a bad ERA, but it hasn’t been enough, as the Rangers have given Lewis one or zero runs of support in four of the seven games in Seattle.<\/p>\n

Lewis has compiled a 3-0 record with a 2.97 ERA in his last five starts, however.\u00a0 Lewis spent some time in Japan, which bettered him in a way that has made him a solid starter.\u00a0 At 6’4″ 215, he has the power and stuff to be dominant, but his concentration seems to waver and he loses confidence when he gets behind in counts.\u00a0 His fastball is now in the low-90s, but his slider sets it up effectively.\u00a0 At age 31, he should still be able to put in a few more good seasons in the MLB, though.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The Texas Rangers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games and the total has gone UNDER In 4 of the Rangers’ last 5 games on the road.\u00a0 The Rangers are 5-2 SU in their last 7 road games and they are 6-2 SU in their last 8 at home against the Seattle Mariners.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 10 of the Rangers’ last 15 games on the road against the Mariners.<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Seattle’s last 11 games and they are 0-5 SU in their last 5 games.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 10 of their last 12 at home and they are 2-5 SU in their last 7 at home.\u00a0 The Mariners are 2-6 SU in their last 8 against the Rangers and the total has gone UNDER in 10 of the last 15 games at home against the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

I continue to suggest the same trend of betting every single Mariners’ game under.\u00a0 Moreover, given their struggles of late, a parlay bet with the ‘under’ and ML on the Rangers seems to make a lot of sense here.\u00a0 It’s not that Colby Lewis is that good, but the Mariners certainly are that bad, and Fister should be able to keep the Rangers in check to keep the total under 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas Rangers (52-41) AT Seattle Mariners (43-49) July 15, 2011 at 10:10 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 TEX -130, SEA +110 Current Line:\u00a0 TEX -114, SEA -105 Opening Total:\u00a0 7 Current Total:\u00a0 7 SP:\u00a0 TEX- Colby Lewis; SEA- Doug Fister There has probably never been a pitcher as frustrated as Doug Fister is right now.\u00a0 Despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[220,771],"class_list":["post-16448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448","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=16448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16450,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions\/16450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}