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<\/a>San Francisco has won five games in a row, including a 4-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves as +120 road underdogs Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for a fifth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Giants are 15-1 in games in which they score first, with a lot of that success attributed to leadoff man Angel Pagan, who has batted .333 in day games this season.\u00a0 San Francisco is 4-2 on the road with a money line of -100 to -125, with no clear edge in the betting total (3-3 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n
Giants starting pitcher Yusmeiro Petit (2-1, 2.61 ERA) will fill in for the injured Matt Cain for a second consecutive outing, as he picked up a 6-0 home win over the San Diego Padres last time out.\u00a0 The right-hander hasn\u2019t earned a decision in three road appearances, with opposing hitters batting .323 against him.\u00a0 In four career games (two starts) versus the Pirates, Petit has compiled a 1-1 record and 3.77 ERA.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh had its two-game winning streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 7-2 defeat to the Toronto Blue Jays as -122 home favorites, while going OVER the betting total for a fourth consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Pirates are 7-3 in series openers this season, including a perfect 5-0 mark when playing at this ballpark.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the club has dropped 13 straight when scoring three or fewer runs.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 4-9 when playing against a team with a winning record this season.<\/p>\n
Pirates starting pitcher Jeff Locke will be making his first appearance in the big leagues this season, as he compiled a 10-7 record and 3.52 ERA in his first go around in 2013.\u00a0 The left-hander has gone 0-1 with a 5.68 ERA in four appearances in the minors\u2014allowing 24 hits in 19 combined frames.\u00a0 Locke didn\u2019t earn a decision in a 10-5 road win over the Giants on Aug. 22 of last season, as he surrendered three runs and five hits over four innings of work.<\/p>\n
Sports bettors will likely back the Giants due to their 7-1 record in Petit\u2019s last eight starts on the mound.<\/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 The San Francisco Giants (20-11) and Pittsburgh Pirates (12-19) will open up a National League series at PNC Park Monday night, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m. ET San Francisco Giants vs. Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0 San Francisco has won five games in a row, including a 4-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves as +120 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[8268,7505,25,428,736,8267],"class_list":["post-33998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-angel-pagan","tag-jeff-locke","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-yusmeiro-petit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33998","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=33998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33999,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33998\/revisions\/33999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}