{"id":5155,"date":"2009-08-04T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/giants-astros-lines-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:07:00","slug":"giants-astros-lines-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/giants-astros-lines-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants-Astros Lines Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The San Francisco Giants and the Houston Astros will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Minute<\/st1:PlaceName> Maid<\/st1:PlaceName> Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Giants will give the ball to starter Jonathan<\/st2:GivenName> Sanchez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> in this one. Lefthander<\/st2:GivenName> Sanchez<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> is 4-9 this season with a 5.02 ERA. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Astros will counter Sanchez<\/st2:Sn> with Felipe<\/st2:GivenName> Paulino<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>. Righthander<\/st2:GivenName> Paulino<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> has a 5.80 ERA to go along with a 1-5 record this season. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Astros listed as 110-moneyline favorites versus the Giants, while the game’s total has not yet been posted. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kaz<\/st2:GivenName> Matsui<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> smashed a two-run big fly to lead the Astros past the Giants 4-3 on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as +130 home underdogs as the game played UNDER the 8-run total posted by sportsbooks. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Carlos<\/st2:GivenName> Lee<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> was 3-for-4 with a run batted in for the Astros, while Mike<\/st2:GivenName> Hampton<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> allowed only one earned run over six innings to earn the win for Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/st2:Sn>. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pablo<\/st2:GivenName> Sandoval<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> went 3-for-5 with an RBI for San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, as Matt<\/st2:GivenName> Cain<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName> gave up four runs over eight innings to take the loss for the Giants. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 58-48 <\/font>SU<\/st2:GivenName>
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:PersonName>: 53-53 SU<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
San Francisco most recently:
When playing on Tuesday are 4-6
Before playing Houston are 5-5
After playing Houston are 3-7
After a loss are 5-5<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of San Francisco’s last 9 games
San Francisco is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Francisco’s last 7 games when playing on the road against Houston
Houston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against San Francisco
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston’s last 5 games
Houston is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing San Francisco
Houston is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st2:Sn><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Wednesday, August 5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The San Francisco Giants and the Houston Astros will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Minute Maid Park. The Giants will give the ball to starter Jonathan Sanchez in this one. Lefthander Sanchez is 4-9 this season with a 5.02 ERA. The Astros will counter Sanchez with … Continue reading Giants-Astros 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-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","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=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}