{"id":16512,"date":"2011-07-19T03:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16512"},"modified":"2011-07-19T03:55:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T08:55:25","slug":"red-hot-giants-host-2nd-game-of-3-game-set-against-l-a-dodgers-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/red-hot-giants-host-2nd-game-of-3-game-set-against-l-a-dodgers-betting-preview-16512\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hot Giants Host 2nd Game of 3 game Set Against L.A. Dodgers – Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Dodgers (42-53) AT San Francisco Giants (55-41)<\/strong>
\nJuly 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 SF -150, LAD +130<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 SF -140, LAD +120<\/strong>
\nOpening Total: 6.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0\u00a0 6.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

SP:\u00a0 LAD- Rubby De La Rosa; SF- Madison Bumgarner<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cody Ross is hitting .268 on the season with 30 RBIs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For once this season, the Giants are finally providing their excellent pitching staff with some run support.\u00a0 It has paid off.\u00a0 The Giants have won 8 of their last 10 and 4 of their last 5 since the All-Star break, and they opened this three game set with a 5-0 win last night.\u00a0 Ryan Vogelsong pitched 6.2 innings, giving up only 7 hits and striking out 5, while walking only one.\u00a0 His season ERA is now down to 2.02.\u00a0 His ERA was already the best in the National League but he was short on innings (to qualify for the leaderboard).<\/p>\n

“Doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Vogelsong said. \u201cIt\u2019s important for me to prove (Bochy) right. They can say whatever they want to say. It doesn\u2019t bother me one bit but he stuck his neck out for me to pick me so I want to show people he made a good decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pablo Sandoval went 3 of 4 from the plate, one of which was a home run.\u00a0 Nate Schierholtz and Cody Ross each picked up a pair of hits and Ross led the Giants in RBIs with two.\u00a0 Despite the improved offense, Sandoval is still the only Giant that is hitting over .300 from the plate this season.<\/p>\n

Juan Uribe had 2 singles but the Dodgers failed to connect with runners in scoring position and hit into a couple double plays at crucial times.<\/p>\n

The Giants have scored 5 or more runs in 3 of their last 5 games and in the first 10 games so far in July, they have scored 5+ runs twice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Their win on Monday was the fifth in a row over the Dodgers and teh second time in 10 meetings this season that they have shut out the Dodgers.\u00a0 A sixth win would be the highest streak since 1969.<\/p>\n

Madison Bumgarner will take the mound for the Giants.\u00a0 Bumgarner has been very effective this season, with a 3.74 ERA, but he hasn’t received a lot of run support and has lost 9 of his 13 decisions.\u00a0 In his last 4 outings, he has given up only 1 run in three of them.\u00a0 Thursday night against the Padres, he threw six innings but left the game with the Giants down 1-0, before they cmae back to take the game 6-2 in 12 innings.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers will send their rookie Rubby De La Rosa to the mound.\u00a0 De La Rosa is 3-4 with a 3.74 ERA this season.\u00a0 His fastball has touched 98 mph as a starter, and 102 mph when pitching in relief, so he has some pretty serious heat to say the least.\u00a0 He also has a great slider and an above average change up.\u00a0 His PECOTA projection for this season was for a 5.11 ERA over 58 IP, but he has already thrown 45.2 innings and beat that projection handily.<\/p>\n

San Diego’s Orlando Hudson was improved with the Dodgers rookie:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kid\u2019s got a bright future ahead of him.\u00a0 He\u2019s good. He had good stuff. He\u2019s got a great fastball, good command of his changeup and he\u2019s got a good slider.<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone UNDER in 7 of the Dodgers’ last 8 games and it has gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 on the road.\u00a0 The Dodgers are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games on the road and they are 0-5 SU in their last 5 against the San Francisco Giants.\u00a0 The Dodgers are 1-5 SU in their last 6 games on the road against the Giants.<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER In\u00a0 4 of the Giants’ last 5 games and they are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games.\u00a0 The total has also gone UNDER in 4 of their last 5 at home.\u00a0 The Giants are 5-1 SU in their last 6 at home, while they are 5-0 SU in their last 5 against the LA Dodgers.\u00a0 The Giants are 5-1 SU in their last 6 home games against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

The total is set low for this one, and appropriately so.\u00a0 Both pitchers are above average and have ERAs in the high 3.00s.\u00a0 The Giants are reasonably favored, and at the odds, this one doesn’t offer much of bargain, given the fact that De La Rosa could reasonably enable the underdog Dodgers to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Dodgers (42-53) AT San Francisco Giants (55-41) July 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 SF -150, LAD +130 Current Line:\u00a0 SF -140, LAD +120 Opening Total: 6.5 Current Total:\u00a0\u00a0 6.5 SP:\u00a0 LAD- Rubby De La Rosa; SF- Madison Bumgarner For once this season, the Giants are finally providing their excellent pitching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[429,736],"class_list":["post-16512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512","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=16512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16514,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions\/16514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}