{"id":1718,"date":"2008-08-25T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rockies-giants-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T11:43:00","slug":"rockies-giants-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rockies-giants-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies-Giants Pointers"},"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 Monday when they battle the Colorado Rockies 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 <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> will give the ball to starter Jeff Francis in this one. Lefthander Francis is 3-8 this season with a 5.52 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It&#8217;ll be Matt Cain toeing the rubber for the Giants in this contest. Righthander Cain is 8-9 with a 3.52 ERA so far 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 135-moneyline favorites versus the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place>, 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\">The <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> defeated <st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 4-3 as a +160 underdog on Sunday. The seven scored fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Omar Quintanilla hit a walk-of solo home run in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> inning for <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, while Matt Holliday was 2-4 and scored a pair of runs in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Giants defeated <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 7-4 as a -120 favorite on Sunday. The 11 runs scored went OVER the posted over\/under total (8.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Bengie Molina was 3-4 with a home run and three RBI for <st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Fred Lewis was 3-5 with three runs scored. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 2 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 5 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 61-71 SU<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 58-72 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Colorado most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 6-4<br \/>Before playing San Francisco are 6-4<br \/>After playing Cincinnati are 7-3<br \/>After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco most recently:<br \/>When playing on Monday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Colorado are 3-7<br \/>After playing San Diego are 8-2<br \/>After a win are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Colorado is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Colorado&#8217;s last 6 games when playing on the road against San Francisco<br \/>Colorado is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Colorado&#8217;s last 10 games when playing San Francisco<br \/>San Francisco is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>San Francisco is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Francisco&#8217;s last 6 games when playing at home against Colorado<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of San Francisco&#8217;s last 8 games <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:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Tuesday, August 26<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<div>&nbsp;<\/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 Monday when they battle the Colorado Rockies at AT&amp;T Park. The Rockies will give the ball to starter Jeff Francis in this one. Lefthander Francis is 3-8 this season with a 5.52 ERA. It&#8217;ll be Matt Cain toeing the rubber for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/rockies-giants-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockies-Giants Pointers<\/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-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}