{"id":4899,"date":"2009-07-18T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/giants-pirates-odds-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-07-18T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T14:08:00","slug":"giants-pirates-odds-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/giants-pirates-odds-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants-Pirates Odds Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The San Francisco Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at PNC<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants will trot Barry<\/st2:GivenName> Zito<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> out to the mound in this one. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Zito<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 5-9 record and a 5.01 ERA this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zito’s opponent in this one will be Charlie<\/st2:GivenName> Morton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. The Pirates righthander has a 4.29 ERA to go along with a 1-2 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 122-moneyline favorites versus the Giants, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Garrett<\/st2:GivenName> Jones<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> hit a walkoff homer in the 14th<\/sup> inning for his second of the game as the Pirates edged the Giants 2-1 on Friday, as +125 underdogs. The team’s played UNDER the posted over\/under (7) <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Evan<\/st2:GivenName> Meek<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> tossed a scoreless 14th<\/sup> inning to earn his first victory of the season for the Pirates. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Randy<\/st2:GivenName> Winn<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> scored the lone Giants run off a wild pitch. Bob<\/st2:GivenName> Howry<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> surrendered the winning run and fell to 0-5 in relief. Oddsmakers had the Giants as a -145 favorite in that game. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 49-40 SU
Pittsburgh: 39-50 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
San Francisco most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 2-8
Before playing Pittsburgh are 2-8
After playing Pittsburgh are 4-6
After a loss are 6-4<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Francisco’s last 6 games on the road
San Francisco is 4-15 SU in its last 19 games when playing Pittsburgh
San Francisco is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Pittsburgh’s last 9 games at home
Pittsburgh is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against San Francisco
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Pittsburgh’s last 5 games
Pittsburgh is 15-4 SU in its last 19 games when playing San Francisco<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, July 19<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The San Francisco Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at PNC Park. The Giants will trot Barry Zito out to the mound in this one. Lefthander Zito has a 5-9 record and a 5.01 ERA this season. Zito’s opponent in this one … Continue reading Giants-Pirates Odds 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-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","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=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}