{"id":4666,"date":"2009-06-20T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rangers-giants-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-06-20T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T13:51:00","slug":"rangers-giants-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/rangers-giants-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers-Giants Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Texas Rangers and the San Francisco Giants will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at AT&T<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> in an interleague contest. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Derek<\/st2:GivenName> Holland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> will be the starting pitcher for the Rangers on this day. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Holland<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 0-3 this season with a 7.08 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Holland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>‘s opponent in this one will be Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Cain<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Giants righthander has a 2.39 ERA to go along with a 9-1 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Giants listed as 155-moneyline favorites versus the Rangers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants grabbed the opener of a three-game series by defeating the Rangers 6-4 on Friday, as -120 favorites. That game’s 10 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (8). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Fred<\/st2:GivenName> Lewis<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went deep for a two-run shot for the Giants. Sergio<\/st2:GivenName> Romo<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> earned his first win of the season in relief, and Brian<\/st2:GivenName> Wilson<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> collected his 18th<\/sup> save. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Marlon<\/st2:GivenName> Byrd<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> collected two RBIs for the Rangers, who were +100 underdogs. Scott<\/st2:GivenName> Feldman<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up eight hits and five runs over six innings in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 37-29 SU
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 35-31 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Texas most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 3-7
Before playing San Francisco are 2-8
After playing San Francisco are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

San Francisco most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 6-4
Before playing Texas are 5-5
After playing Texas are 7-3
After a win are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Texas is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games
Texas is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against San Francisco
Texas is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing San Francisco
San Francisco is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Texas
San Francisco is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Texas
San Francisco is 10-4 SU in its last 14 games at home
San Francisco is 15-8 SU in its last 23 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, June 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Texas Rangers and the San Francisco Giants will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at AT&T Park in an interleague contest. Derek Holland will be the starting pitcher for the Rangers on this day. Lefthander Holland is 0-3 this season with a 7.08 ERA. Holland‘s opponent in this one … Continue reading Rangers-Giants Lines Preview<\/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-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","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=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}