{"id":1689,"date":"2008-08-23T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/padres-giants-who-will-cover\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:33:00","slug":"padres-giants-who-will-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/padres-giants-who-will-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres-Giants Who Will Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A winning streak will be on the line for the San Francisco Giants on Saturday when they battle the San Diego Padres at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>AT&amp;T<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Padres will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Josh Banks in this game. Banks has a 2-6 record and a 5.28 ERA this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Giants will counter Banks with Barry Zito. Lefthander Zito has a 5.43 ERA to go along with a 7-15 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Giants listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the Padres, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Tim Lincecum tossed a four-hit shutout through eight innings as the Giants defeated the Padres 5-0. The Giants won the game as -230 favorites, but the five runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (7). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Travis Ishikawa belted a three-run homer to power the Giants. Lincecum improved to 14-3 with the win, while fanning eight batters. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cha Seung Baek gave up five runs off seven hits over seven innings in the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers had the Padres as +200 underdogs in that game. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 5 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 48-80 SU<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 56-72 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">San Diego most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing San Francisco are 3-7<br \/>After playing San Francisco are 3-7<br \/>After a loss are 4-6<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco most recently:<br \/>When playing on Saturday are 8-2<br \/>Before playing San Diego are 6-4<br \/>After playing San Diego are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 4-6<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>San Diego is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against San Francisco<br \/>San Diego is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing San Francisco<br \/>San Diego is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>San Diego is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>San Francisco is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>San Francisco is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games <br \/>San Francisco is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing San Diego<br \/>San Francisco is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against San Diego<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, August 24<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winning streak will be on the line for the San Francisco Giants on Saturday when they battle the San Diego Padres at AT&amp;T Park. The Padres will pin their hopes on the pitching of righthander Josh Banks in this game. Banks has a 2-6 record and a 5.28 ERA this season. The Giants will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/padres-giants-who-will-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Padres-Giants Who Will Cover?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","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=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}