MLB Baseball Odds: San Francisco Giants vs San Diego Padres
Friday, July 15, 2011
by Frank Martin
The San Francisco Giants scored more runs in the 12th inning of Thursday’s game than the San Diego Padres have totaled during their last 56 innings. The Padres attempt to end their scoring drought and break a six-game losing skid when the two teams meet in Friday’s second contest of the four-game series.
San Francisco scored five runs in the decisive inning of Thursday’s 6-2 victory while offensively challenged San Diego has scored just four runs over the last 56 innings. The six-game losing streak matches the Padres’ longest skid of the season. San Francisco leads Arizona by 3 1/2 games in the National League West.
- San Francisco Giants (53-40) vs. San Diego Padres (40-53)
When: 10:05 PM ET, Friday, July 15, 2011
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
TV: 10:05 p.m. ET, KNTV (San Francisco), Ch4 (San Diego).
The Giants have opened as 134-moneyline favorites on Bet Online Sportsbook’s Live MLB Baseball Odds.
Giants RH Tim Lincecum (7-7, 3.06) vs. Padres RH Dustin Moseley (2-8, 3.21)
Lincecum is 1-1 in two outings against the Padres this season. He struck out a season-high 13 while limiting San Diego to one run and three hits on April 6 and he lost on July 4 when he gave up three runs and seven hits in five innings. Lincecum is 6-4 with a 2.20 ERA in 15 career starts against the Padres and is 4-2 with a 1.80 ERA in eight outings at Petco Park. Lincecum defeated the New York Mets in his last start, giving up one run and four hits over six innings. Orlando Hudson is batting .409 in 22 career at-bats against Lincecum.
Moseley struck out a career-high nine against San Francisco on July 6 in his first career start against the Giants but took a no-decision. He allowed four runs and five hits in 7 1/3 innings. Moseley has gone five straight starts without winning. His last victory was June 3 against Houston. The four runs he allowed against the Giants were his most since giving up six to Colorado on May 13. Moseley is 1-4 with a 3.64 ERA in eight home starts.
You know things are really going bad for the Padres when All-Star closer Heath Bell blows a save. Bell blew just his second save in his last 62 opportunities when he allowed a ninth-inning homer to Aubrey Huff. It was the first homer he had allowed since April 19, 2010. Coincidentally, that homer also was hit by the Giants with Juan Uribe going deep. Third baseman Chase Headley left Thursday’s game after seven innings with a left ankle contusion. Headley fouled a ball off the ankle earlier in the contest. Headley, who is batting .300, had a run-scoring single in the third inning. Will Venable had a sacrifice fly in the 12th for San Diego’s other run.
San Francisco has won five of its last six games and has gone 14-6 over its last 20 games. Huff’s game-tying homer in the ninth broke a string of 132 at-bats without going deep. Huff hadn’t homered since hitting three against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 2. He leads the Giants with nine homers.
Pablo Sandoval went 2-for-5 to extend his hitting streak to 22 games. He is batting .433 (13-for-30) with eight RBIs against San Diego this season. Catcher Eli Whiteside matched a career-high with three hits. Nate Schierholtz had a 12th-inning run-scoring single to stretch his hitting streak to seven games.
San Diego is averaging 1.9 runs in July and has scored just 21 runs in 11 games. The Padres have been blanked three times and scored just once in four games.
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