{"id":36886,"date":"2011-04-08T20:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T03:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=36886"},"modified":"2011-04-08T20:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T03:56:40","slug":"odds-cardinals-vs-giants-gambling-prediction-preview-9411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/mlb-baseball\/odds-cardinals-vs-giants-gambling-prediction-preview-9411\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Betting \u2013 St. Louis vs. San Francisco Gambling Prediction \/ Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday MLB Baseball Picks: Cardinals vs Giants<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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MLB Betting \u2013 Cardinals vs Giants Preview & Pick<\/strong>
\nDate: <\/strong>Saturday, April 9, 2011
\nVenue: <\/strong>AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA
\nBroadcast: <\/strong>FSMV, CSBA
\nSt. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco Giants Betting Lines from Sportsbook.com<\/strong>
\nOpening Money Line: <\/strong> -158
\nOver\/Under: <\/strong>6.5
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St. Louis Cardinals (2-4 through April 7)<\/strong>
\nJaime Garcia (1-0, 0.00)<\/p>\n

The St. Louis Cardinals have plenty to worry about this season. Will they keep Albert Pujols? Will Matt Holliday bounce back after his appendectomy? Will their pitching staff survive without Adam Wainwright?<\/p>\n

Jaime Garcia did his best to answer that question with a resounding \u201cyes\u201d in his first start of 2011. He was masterful against the San Diego Padres, striking out nine in a complete-game, four-hit shutout. Maybe he isn\u2019t a one-year wonder after all?<\/p>\n

Garcia has handled the San Francisco Giants well in a limited sample size, going 1-1 with a 1.20 ERA over two starts and throwing a complete-game shutout against them.<\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants (2-4 through April 7)<\/strong>
\nMatt Cain (1-0, 0.00)<\/p>\n

A 2-4 start isn\u2019t exactly what the defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants envisioned, is it? To the surprise of some, their offense has held up reasonably well to start the season, with Pablo Sandoval, Freddy Sanchez, Buster Posey and Aubrey Huff all hitting at least .292. For the most part, the Giants\u2019 pitching has been solid, too. So are they just unlucky? \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe their luck will take a turn for the better when Matt Cain takes the hill Saturday night. The Giants\u2019 No. 2 starter didn\u2019t allow a run in three playoff starts last season and continued his dominance last week with six scoreless innings against the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting, however, that the Cardinals are one of the few teams that hit Cain hard. He\u2019s just 1-2 with a 4.71 ERA over five career outings against St. Louis.<\/p>\n

MLB Trends:<\/strong><\/p>\n

STL are 7-16 in their last 23 road games.
\nSF are 10-2 in Cains last 12 starts.
\nSF are 10-2 in Cains last 12 starts on grass.
\nUnder is 20-6-1 in Cains last 27 Sat. starts.
\nUnder is 6-2 in the last 8 meetings.<\/p>\n

The pick: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the Cardinals\u2019 top sluggers are off to slow starts. Albert Pujols hitting .182? No homers for Colby Rasmus or Lance Berkman? All three of those guys have excellent history against Matt Cain, especially Pujols, who bats .667 off him with two homers over 12 at-bats. Cain is due to come back to Earth and the Cards\u2019 offense is due for an outburst. I like St. Louis to pull the minor road upset.<\/p>\n

Cardinals vs Giants prediction: <\/strong>Cardinals 4, Giants 2<\/p>\n

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Shea weighs in with his MLB Free Pick for tonight. It\u2019s the St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Francisco Giants matching up at AT&T Park. The Giants are currently 158-moneyline favorites\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":36049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[47732,47733,47618,111,13510,112,19094,19021,27271,2058,678,683,686,28222,48088,48089,48086,48087],"class_list":["post-36886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball","tag-2011-major-league-baseball","tag-2011-mlb-betting","tag-2011-mlb-picks","tag-baseball-picks","tag-baseball-prediction","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-cardinals-giants-lines","tag-cardinals-giants-odds","tag-major-league-baseball-betting-odds","tag-mlb-baseball-betting","tag-mlb-betting","tag-mlb-handicapping","tag-mlb-pick","tag-st-louis-cardinals-vs-san-francisco-giants","tag-st-louis-cardinals-vs-san-francisco-giants-gambling","tag-st-louis-cardinals-vs-san-francisco-giants-pick","tag-st-louis-san-francisco-betting","tag-st-louis-san-francisco-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36905,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36886\/revisions\/36905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}