San Francisco Giants at San Diego Padres Odds Betting Odds
Opening Moneyline: Giants -110 / Padres -110 O/U 6.5 runs
Time: 10:05 PM EST Friday September 10, 2010
Tonight in sunny San Diego the struggling Padres face the San Francisco Giants in Game 2 of a very important series. The Padres are only 3-7 in their last 10 games and they only lead the Giants by a single game in the NL West after having a comfortable lead in the division a couple weeks back. The Padres have lost 11 of their last 14 games.
The Giants are 7-3 in their last 10 games and while they have played well they have not had much success in San Diego this season only going 2-4 at Petco Park and losing 9 of 12 against the Padres so far this season.
After tonight's game these teams face each other on Saturday and Sunday and then in the final series of the season the Padres host the Giants for 3 games.
This season the Padres are 41-30 at home and the Giants are 37-35 on the road.
In Game 1 of this series yesterday the Giants beat the Padres 7-3.
In last night's game the Padres only scored 3 runs and it marked the 13th straight game they have failed to score 4 runs.
Taking the mound for the Padres tonight is Clayton Richard (12-6 3.43 ERA), who in his last start was solid going 6 innings only giving up 1 earned run, but got no run support and got a no-decision. Jonathan Sanchez (10-8 3.39 ERA) is on the hill for the Giants and he was stellar in his last outing not giving up any earned runs in 7 innings of work in a win.
Richard is 3-0 with a 2.05 ERA in 4 starts against the Giants this season and he is 5-1 with a 3.04 ERA in his last 8 starts.
Last month Sanchez when the Giants were hosting the Padres he boasted that San Francisco would sweep San Diego and take over the lead in the NL West. That did not happen, as the Padres won 2 of 3 and stayed in first place in the division.
Sanchez is 0-3 against the Giants this season. While he is winless against San Francisco he has a decent 3.08 ERA in those games and has got little help from the offense, as they have only averaged 1.37 runs per game.
San Diego is 8-2 in Richard's last 10 home starts against teams with a winning record and San Francisco is 11-5 in Sanchez's last 16 starts.
San Diego is 4-0 against San Francisco in Richard's last 4 starts.
Betting Trends
San Diego is 3-8 in their last 11 home games, 1-7 in their last 8 home games against teams with a winning record, and has an Under record of 4-1 in their last 5 games.
San Francisco is 5-1 in their last 6 road games, 6-1 in their last 7 road games facing a left-handed starter, and has an Under record of 7-3 in their last 10 games.
In the last 12 games between these 2 teams in San Diego the total has gone Under 9 times.
Our Selection : While both starting pitchers have similar season stats they have completely different when facing the opposing team. The Giants have lost 3 of the last 4 games that J. Sanchez has started versus the Padres. San Diego's starter has markedly better results with the Padres winning his past 4 starts versus the Giants with all 4 starts being of the quality variety. Take the Padres -105 at 5Dimes.
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