{"id":5587,"date":"2009-09-16T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/baseball-handicapping-rockies-vs-giants\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T12:15:00","slug":"baseball-handicapping-rockies-vs-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/baseball-handicapping-rockies-vs-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Handicapping: Rockies vs Giants"},"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\">The Colorado Rockies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the San Francisco Giants 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\">Lefthander Jorge De La Rosa will take the mound for the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> to start this game. De La Rosa is 14-9 this season with a 4.29 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Giants will counter De La Rosa with Matt Cain. Righthander Cain has a 2.61 ERA to go along with a 13-5 record this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">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\">Juan Uribe was 2-for-5 with three runs batted in, as the Giants smacked the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> 10-2 on Tuesday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as +120 home underdogs, while the game played OVER the 7-run total set by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Bengie Molina went 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Giants, as Barry Zito gave up two runs over seven innings to earn the victory for <st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Troy Tulowitzki went deep for <st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, while Ubaldo Jimenez was rocked for six earned runs over 2 2-3 innings to take the loss for the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place>. <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 lost 4 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 3 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>: 82-64 SU<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 79-66 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 Wednesday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing Arizona are 6-4<br \/>After playing San Francisco are 6-4<br \/>After a loss are 3-7<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco most recently:<br \/>When playing on Wednesday are 1-9<br \/>Before playing LA Dodgers are 2-8<br \/>After playing Colorado are 5-5<br \/>After a win are 5-5<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 8-4 SU in its last 12 games <br \/>Colorado is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Colorado is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games on the road<br \/>Colorado is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against San Francisco<br \/>San Francisco is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Colorado<br \/>San Francisco is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Colorado<br \/>San Francisco is 10-5 SU in its last 15 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, September 18<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at LA Dodgers, Friday, September 18<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/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>The Colorado Rockies will be fighting to snap a losing streak on Wednesday when they take on the San Francisco Giants at AT&amp;T Park. Lefthander Jorge De La Rosa will take the mound for the Rockies to start this game. De La Rosa is 14-9 this season with a 4.29 ERA. The Giants will counter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/baseball-handicapping-rockies-vs-giants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baseball Handicapping: Rockies vs Giants<\/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-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","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=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}