{"id":1618,"date":"2008-08-16T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/giants-braves-pointspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T13:13:00","slug":"giants-braves-pointspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/giants-braves-pointspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants-Braves Pointspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Turner Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants will trot Jonathan Sanchez out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Sanchez has a 8-9 record and a 4.53 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Meanwhile, it’ll be Mike Hampton who starts for the Braves. Lefthander Hampton is 1-1 with a 8.10 ERA so far this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Braves listed as 140-moneyline favorites versus the Giants, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants pounded out 15 hits and came away with a 5-1 win over the Braves on Friday as a +140 underdog. The six runs fell UNDER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Randy Winn went 4-for-4 at the plate with a solo home run and two RBIs for the Giants. Matt Cain allowed just one earned run over seven innings for his eighth win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chipper Jones drove in the lone run for the Braves, who were -150 favorites in that game. Jair Jurrjens gave up two runs off eight hits over seven innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 51-70 SU
Atlanta: 55-67 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
San Francisco most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing Atlanta are 3-7
After playing Atlanta are 6-4
After a win are 4-6<\/p>\n

Atlanta most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing San Francisco are 6-4
After playing San Francisco are 4-6
After a loss are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
San Francisco is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of San Francisco’s last 10 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 9 of San Francisco’s last 13 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of San Francisco’s last 16 games
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Atlanta’s last 8 games
The total has gone OVER in 11 of Atlanta’s last 15 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Atlanta’s last 13 games when playing at home against San Francisco
Atlanta is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games when playing at home against San Francisco<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 17<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Turner Field. The Giants will trot Jonathan Sanchez out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Sanchez has a 8-9 record and a 4.53 ERA this season. Meanwhile, it’ll be Mike Hampton … Continue reading Giants-Braves Pointspread Pointers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}