Play on San Francisco

Record: 13-21, -3.85


Second pick tonight will be on the Giants hosting Colorado. This is a nice matchup as San Francisco won the series opener yesterday and should be eager to cut down Colorado's lead for the wild card spot. We also see the Giants as one of the best home teams in the league at 47-25. Here, they are also 6-1 for the season against the Rockies. After struggling lately(lost 7 of their last 11) the Giants came back with two wins in a row where they scored really well, so the offense seems to be on a roll. On the other side we see Colorado going the opposite direction. They won 10 of 11 but lost their last three by a combined score of 6-19. So their offense seems to have taken a break right now. Their road record isn't bad at 37-36, but nothing special.

The Giants go with Barry Zito(9-12, 3.99) who has played a nice season so far. In his last few starts his numbers went down a bit but today he plays Colorado against whom he is 3-2 with a 1.92 ERA in his career. He even more liked them this year allowing only one ER in 21 innings. Colorado sends its ace Ubaldo Jimenez(13-10, 3.32) who played great, too, but his last start against Cincinnati was only average. Similar story as with Zito. The final point that convinced me playing SF here was that Jimenez had a sore hamstring. As this is a leg injury it may not affect him too much, but it is/was still an injury. And it made him to stay out two days ago which should have been his regular start, so even if the injury doesn't affect him at all he may still be a bit out of rhythm as his last start was 8 days before instead of six.

With all this said I would have expected even odds and as we see San Francisco as a dog with odds of 2.32 or +132 I will play them with 2 units. Good Luck.

DG