{"id":4823,"date":"2009-07-03T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/astros-giants-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:46:00","slug":"astros-giants-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/astros-giants-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros-Giants Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Astros and the San Francisco Giants will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at AT&T<\/st2:PlaceName> Park<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Righthander<\/st1:GivenName> Felipe<\/st1:middlename> Paulino<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> will take the mound for the Astros to start this game. Paulino is 1-4 this season with a 4.53 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Starting this game for the Giants will be Ryan<\/st1:GivenName> Sadowski<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. The righthander has a 0.00 ERA to go along with a 1-0 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Giants listed as 125-moneyline favorites versus the Astros, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros downed the Padres with a series-clinching 7-2 win on Thursday, as a -105 pick’em. The game’s nine runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (7.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Geoff<\/st1:GivenName> Blum<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> led the way with a three-run homer and four RBIs for the Astros. Wandy Rodriguez<\/st1:Sn> threw seven innings for the victory, allowing seven hits and one run. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants fell 5-2 to the Cardinals last time out, as +125 underdogs. That game’s seven runs went UNDER the posted over\/under (9). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron<\/st1:GivenName> Rowand<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> smacked a two-run homer for the Giants, while Barry<\/st1:GivenName> Zito<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> gave up all five runs in 4 1-3 innings of work. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Houston<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has won 2 straight games.
San Francisco<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>: 38-39 SU
San Francisco<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 42-36 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston most recently:
When playing on Friday are 8-2
Before playing San Francisco are 7-3
After playing San Diego are 7-3
After a win are 5-5<\/p>\n

San Francisco most recently:
When playing on Friday are 4-6
Before playing Houston are 5-5
After playing St. Louis are 5-5
After a loss are 6-4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
Houston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing San Francisco
Houston is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Houston is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
Houston is 7-15 SU in its last 22 games when playing on the road against San Francisco
San Francisco is 12-4 SU in its last 16 games at home
San Francisco is 15-7 SU in its last 22 games when playing at home against Houston
San Francisco is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing Houston<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
San Francisco<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Saturday, July 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Astros and the San Francisco Giants will both be gunning for a victory on Friday when they meet at AT&T Park. Righthander Felipe Paulino will take the mound for the Astros to start this game. Paulino is 1-4 this season with a 4.53 ERA. Starting this game for the Giants will be Ryan … Continue reading Astros-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-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","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=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}