{"id":24118,"date":"2012-08-01T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=24118"},"modified":"2012-08-01T08:08:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:08:42","slug":"mlb-predictions-2012-new-york-mets-vs-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/mlb-predictions-2012-new-york-mets-vs-san-francisco-giants-24118\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Predictions 2012: New York Mets vs. San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Mets (50-54) and San Francisco Giants (56-47) will continue a four-game National League series on Wednesday night at AT&T Park, with the first pitch scheduled for 10:15 ET<\/p>\n

New York Mets at San Francisco Giants \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New York Mets 3B David Wright has fared well against tonight’s starting pitcher in his career<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York has lost 15 of 19 games and will look to bounce back from a 4-1 setback to San Francisco on Tuesday night, as the club sits at 3-3 on its current season-high 11-game road trip.\u00a0 The Mets will look to get some production out of third baseman David Wright in this affair, coming in with a .429 lifetime average against tonight\u2019s opposing starter, which includes five doubles in 21 at-bats.\u00a0 New York is 3-12 against winning teams during the second half of the season, while the \u201cover\u201d is 9-6 in that span.<\/p>\n

Mets starting pitcher Jonathon Niese (7-5, 3.86 ERA) has watched the club drop his last four outings, as he suffered an 11-5 road loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks last time out, giving up eight runs (six earned) and nine hits over six frames.\u00a0 The left-hander is 3-3 with a 3.70 ERA in 10 road outings, surrendering eight home runs in 58.1 combined innings.\u00a0 In three career appearances (two starts) versus the Giants, Niese has garnered an 0-1 record and 4.05 ERA, including a no-decision effort on April 20 (6 IP, 3 ER).<\/p>\n

San Francisco is currently 3-5 on its 10-game homestand and will welcome a new player to the clubhouse before the third game of this series, acquiring Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Hunter Pence at the Trade Deadline.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s had a lot of success here in this ballpark,\u201d commented Giants general manager Brian Sabean.\u00a0 The club has a great chance of still capturing this series, considering its won 12 of the last 17 meetings against the Mets at this ballpark.\u00a0 San Francisco is 12-4 as a home favorite of -150 to -175 this season.<\/p>\n

Giants starting pitcher Matt Cain (10-3, 2.80 ERA) has been knocked around a bit in not earning a decision in his last two efforts, giving up eight runs and 14 hits in 15 combined innings in that span.\u00a0 The right-hander is 5-2 with a 2.13 ERA in 10 home outings, issuing just eight walks and striking out 71 batters in 76 frames.\u00a0 In nine career games versus the Mets, Cain has compiled a 5-3 record and 3.61 ERA, including a win last year in tossing six shutout innings.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Giants due to their 11-4 mark in Cain\u2019s last 15 starts, while the Mets are 0-5 in Niese\u2019s last five road starts against winning teams.<\/p>\n

Make sure to check out our Major League Baseball picks<\/a> all season long and get the most up-to-date betting odds at Bookmaker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Mets (50-54) and San Francisco Giants (56-47) will continue a four-game National League series on Wednesday night at AT&T Park, with the first pitch scheduled for 10:15 ET New York Mets at San Francisco Giants \u00a0 New York has lost 15 of 19 games and will look to bounce back from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1611,1558,6844,2036,1570,43,736],"class_list":["post-24118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-att-park","tag-david-wright","tag-hunter-pence","tag-jonathon-niese","tag-matt-cain","tag-new-york-mets","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24119,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24118\/revisions\/24119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}