Philadelphia Phillies at San Francisco Giants Betting Odds
Opening Moneyline: Phillies -115 / Giants +105 O/U 9 runs
Time: 10:15 PM EST Tuesday April 27, 2010
Tonight in the City By the Bay the San Francisco Giants host the Philadelphia Phillies. The Giants were struggling coming into this series, but they should have a ton of confidence after winning last night’s game keeping a potent Phillies offense in check and handing ace Roy Holliday his first loss of the season.
The Giants won the opening game in this series 5-1 last night.
The Giants are coming off a win, are only 4-6 in their last 10 games, and are tied for 1st place with the San Diego Padres. The Phillies are still in 1st place in the NL East, but they have a slim .5 game lead over the Florida Marlins, have lost 2 in a row, and are only 4-6 in their last 10 games.
This season the Giants are 7-3 at home and the Phillies are 8-5 on the road.
Taking the mound for the Giants is struggling Todd Wellemeyer (0-3 8.16 ERA), who is looking for his 1st win of the season and in his last outing gave up 2 earned runs in 4 innings pitched taking a loss. Taking the hill for the Phillies is the ageless Jamie Moyer (2-1 5.00), who has been solid this season and had a stellar outing in his last start giving up 0 earned runs in 6 innings earning a win.
Wellemeyer has given up 13 runs in 14 1/3 innings this season and has had no luck against Phillies’ sluggers Chase Utley and Ryan Howard. Utley is 7/11 with 3 HR’s against Wellemeyer and Howard is 4/7 with 2 HR’s.
Wellemeyer is 0-2 with a 7.94 ERA in 4 career starts against the Phillies.
Moyer lost his last start against the Giants in 2008 and has not won in San Francisco since 1987.
Dating back to last season Philadelphia is 2-6 in Moyer’s last 8 starts and San Francisco has not won in any of Wellemeyer’s 3 starts this season.
The Phillies have scored the 2nd most runs in the NL this season even though they had a season low 4 hits last night and only scored 1 run.
Even though Wellemeyer has an ERA above 8 the Giants have given up the fewest runs in the NL.
Betting Trends
Philadelphia is 1-4 in their last 5 games as a favorite, 5-1 in their last 6 games during game 2 of a series, and has an Under record of 5-1 in their last 6 games against teams with a winning record.
San Francisco is 4-1 in their last 5 home games, 1-4 in their last 5 games following a win, has an Under record of 8-0 in their last 8 games, and an Under record of 5-0 in their last 5 home games.
In the last 4 games between these 2 teams the total has gone Under every time.
Our Selection : No doubt about it. Todd Wellemeyer has not pitched well this season. Jamie Moyer hasn't done much better, but is coming off 6 innings of shutout ball in his last start. However, don't expect him to duplicate that performance tonight. The Giants have hammered lefties this season. Take over 9.5 runs at 5Dimes.
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