{"id":52499,"date":"2012-07-06T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=52499"},"modified":"2012-07-06T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:56:25","slug":"milwaukee-brewers-38-44-vs-houston-astros-32-50-friday-july-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/mlb-baseball\/milwaukee-brewers-38-44-vs-houston-astros-32-50-friday-july-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers (38-44) vs Houston Astros (32-50) – Friday July 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Brewers (38-44) vs Houston Astros (32-50)
\nFriday July 6
\nMinute Maid Park – Houston, TX
\n8:05PM<\/p>\n

Probable Starters:
\nMIL: \u00a0Yovani Gallardo
\nHOU: \u00a0J.A. Happ<\/p>\n

Moneyline: \u00a0Milwaukee -140, Houston +130
\nO\/U: 9<\/p>\n

Milwaukee<\/p>\n

The Brew Crew have lost their last two games heading into Houston to square off against the team just below them in the NL Central standings. \u00a0The difference is that when the season started Milwaukee thought they would be a challenger…now they are just waiting to see who will give them the best offer for free agent to be Zack Greinke. \u00a0This team is amassing an impressive injured list with Shaun Marcum now on the DL.<\/p>\n

If (or when) Greinke is dealt the mantle of ace will fall to Yovani Gallardo. \u00a0He certainly has the stuff and can dominate, but if things continue as they have been he will finish with his highest ERA since joining the league. \u00a0He has been much sharper of late with a 2.33 ERA over his last three starts. \u00a0Against Houston he has been a sparkling 10-2 over his career which is the reason why the Brewers are the medium favourites in the opener.<\/p>\n

Houston<\/p>\n

Houston is coming home absolutely desperate for a win. \u00a0They had lost 7 in a row heading into Thursday night\u2019s contest with Pittsburgh (which they were losing 2-0 as this is being written). \u00a0It is no secret why – just combine very bad pitching with poor hitting. \u00a0The hitting might be getting worse too with the recent deal of outfielder Carlos Lee to the Marlins. \u00a0If any team needs the All-Star break it is these guys.<\/p>\n

Starter J.A. Happ is a real conundrum. \u00a0In some areas he has improved over last year – like strikeouts and command – but at the same time he is giving up a higher BAA. \u00a0He is wildly inconsistent no matter what kind of situation you put him in. \u00a0There is just no way you can back him in this contest when you see that the Brewers have walloped him in the past to the tune of an ERA close to 6.<\/p>\n

O\/U Pick: \u00a0Over
\nScore Prediction: \u00a0Milwaukee 4 – Houston 0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Brewers (38-44) vs Houston Astros (32-50) Friday July 6 Minute Maid Park – Houston, TX 8:05PM Probable Starters: MIL: \u00a0Yovani Gallardo HOU: \u00a0J.A. Happ Moneyline: \u00a0Milwaukee -140, Houston +130 O\/U: 9 Milwaukee The Brew Crew have lost their last two games heading into Houston to square off against the team just below them in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":35022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52555,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52499\/revisions\/52555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}