{"id":16496,"date":"2011-07-18T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2011-07-18T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:09:01","slug":"collmenters-revenge-josh-collmenter-and-the-diamondbacks-host-4-game-set-vs-prince-fielder-and-the-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/collmenters-revenge-josh-collmenter-and-the-diamondbacks-host-4-game-set-vs-prince-fielder-and-the-brewers-16496\/","title":{"rendered":"Collmenter’s Revenge: Josh Collmenter and the Diamondbacks Host 4 Game Set vs. Prince Fielder and the Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Brewers (51-45) AT Arizona Diamondbacks (51-44)<\/strong>
\nJuly 18, 2011 at 9:40 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 ARI -125, MIL +105<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 ARI -125, MIL +104<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 9<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 MIL- Randy Wolf; ARI- Josh Collmenter<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prince Fielder took MVP Honors at the 2011 All-Star Game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prince Fielder isn’t trying to make too much of the bizarre circumstances of the All-Star break, in which he drew a lot of animosity from Diamondback fans after selecting Justin Upton to team up with him, but the he “redeemed” himself with the All-Star game.\u00a0 He claimed he understood what the fans did, but I’m not sure it’s all that simple…<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know if I transformed (the fans), but I understood,\u201d Fielder told the team\u2019s official website. \u201cI didn\u2019t take it too personally. I mean, I probably would have booed myself, too, if I was an Arizona fan. That just shows you how much Justin means to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Against the Diamondbacks over his career, Fielder has been very good.\u00a0 He’s hit .328 with 10 HRs and 22 RBIs in 39 games.\u00a0 On the July 4th to July 6th series, he went 5 of 11 with a homer and 4 RBIs, though the Brewers dropped two of those three games.\u00a0 Over the six game win streak the Brewers have going against the Diamondbacks, Fielder is hitting .320, as the Brewers have outscored the D-Backs 46-14 in those games.<\/p>\n

Ryan Braun could be returning to the lineup for the Brewers after suffering a hamstring malady, which forced him to exit the game on Saturday.\u00a0 In Sunday’s win he pinch hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping that with the time off he had before the break, it healed up that area,\u201d Brewers’ skipper Ron Ronicke said optimistically. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m hoping that we\u2019re just day-to-day. And hopefully it just continues to get better and we don\u2019t get to the point where we need to back him off for a couple weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his last 6 games at Arizona’s Chase Field, Ryan Braun has gone 9 of 26 (.360) with 8 RBIs and 10 runs scored.<\/p>\n

Brewers’ hurler Randy Wolf has pitched particularly well at Chase Field.\u00a0 Wolf is 6-6 this season with a 3.65 ERA and he has won his last 7 starts at Chase Field, compiling a 3.26 ERA.\u00a0 He wasn’t so great last time against the Diamondbacks, however, as he gave up 7 runs in 3 innings, in a 7-3 loss at home.\u00a0 Next start, against the Reds, he gave up 3 runs over 7 innings, but did not pick up a decision in what still was a ‘quality’ start.<\/p>\n

Justin Upton has reached a dry spot in his season, as he has went 0 for his last 15, but against Wolf he has had a lot of success.\u00a0 He’s batting .329 with 29 RBIs at home against Wolf, and .294 overall.<\/p>\n

Rookie Josh Collmenter will again take the mound for the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 Collmenter has given up 5 runs or more three times this season, but due to 4 shutouts, he still has a 2.92 ERA.\u00a0 In 77 innings of work, he has 51 strikeouts and a WHIP of 1.00.\u00a0 Opposing batters are hitting a mere .215 against Collmenter.<\/p>\n

By all means, he is proving to have been worth the 15th round pick spent on him back in 2007, though Baseball Prospectus projected him to be no better than a “fifth starter” prior to this season.\u00a0 Collmenter is only 25 years old and had a long career ahead of him and the Diamondbacks are going to be thankful they have the 6’2″ righty.<\/p>\n

Collmenter has lost his last two home starts, and in his last on June 19th, he gave up 3 runs in 7 innings, but the Diamondbacks were defeated 8-2.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Brewers are 6-3 SU in their last 9 games and the total has gone OVER In 10 of their last 14 games.\u00a0 It has also gone OVER In 5 of their last 7 on the road.\u00a0 The Brewers are 3-8 SU in their last 11 on the road and they are 2-5 SU in their last 7 against the Arizona Diamondbacks.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER In 4 of the Brewers’ last 5 games against the Diamondbacks and it has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 6 road games against the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 The Brewers are 5-0 SU in their last 5 games on the road against the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

The Arizona Diamondbacks are 5-2 SU in their last 7 games against the Milwaukee Brewers and the total has gone OVER in 4 of the last 5 games against the Brewers.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 4 of the last 6 at home against Milwaukee while Arizona is 0-5 SU in their last 5 games at home against the Brewers.<\/p>\n

Both teams have been managing to hit the ball pretty well, and are tempered by decent pitchers.\u00a0 The total isn’t particulary enticing and the favorited Diamondbacks should win behind the strength of Collmenter’s arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Brewers (51-45) AT Arizona Diamondbacks (51-44) July 18, 2011 at 9:40 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 ARI -125, MIL +105 Current Line:\u00a0 ARI -125, MIL +104 Opening Total: 9 Current Total:\u00a0 9 SP:\u00a0 MIL- Randy Wolf; ARI- Josh Collmenter Prince Fielder isn’t trying to make too much of the bizarre circumstances of the All-Star break, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[50,266],"class_list":["post-16496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-milwaukee-brewers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496","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=16496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16498,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions\/16498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}