Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants Betting Preview
Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco
When: Monday, May 15, 2017, 10:15 PM ET
Line: Los Angeles Dodgers (-139) vs. San Francisco Giants (+129); total: 7.5 – view all MLB lines
TV Broadcast: ESPN
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Betting on the Los Angeles Dodgers (22-16)
After spending 10 days on the disabled list with a shoulder injury, Brandon McCarthy is making his way back into the mound tonight, as the Dodgers and the Giants kick off their second series of the season.
McCarthy is 3-0 with a 3.10 ERA in five starts this year. He last saw action on Apr. 29, when he allowed four earned runs on eight hits across five frames of a 6-5 win at home versus Philadelphia. That was his worst outing to date this season and he’ll be looking to recover against the Giants’ lighter bats. The Giants have the second fewest runs in the majors and are third worst in the National League in batting average. On the other end of the spectrum, meanwhile, is the Dodgers’ offense.
Los Angeles is batting .263 on the season and is third in the league in runs. The team’s offense is a big threat to Giants starter Matt Cain, whom the Dodgers are batting a collective .323 against. Yasiel Puig is 6-for-17 with a homer in his career versus Cain. Puig is also batting well of late, going 7-for-25 (.280) with a pair of blasts in his last six games.
The Dodgers, who are coming off a 9-6 road loss to Colorado on Sunday, is 2-1 in its last three games at AT&T Park.
Betting on the San Francisco Giants (15-24)
This is not a drill: the Giants are on a three-game win streak. The Giants are showing some progress lately, going 4-1 in their last five games, which includes a three-game series sweep of Cincinnati at home capped by an 8-3 win Sunday.
Hopefully for San Francisco, that momentum carries into this series with the Dodgers. The won the last one with LA, taking two games to one back in late April—also at AT&T Park. Cain started one of those wins, throwing six scoreless innings and allowing just two hits in a 2-1 win on Apr. 24.
Cain is having some kind of a bounce back season after finishing 2016 with a 4-8 record and a 5.64 ERA. So far this year, he is 2-1 with a 4.54 ERA. His ERA took a hit, when he allowed nine runs on 3.1 innings in a 13-3 road loss to Cincinnati on May 5. Prior to that debacle, Cain’s ERA was sitting on 2.30 in five starts. Cain recovered from that bad outing, when he gave up just two earned runs on four hits in five innings of a 6-5 road win against the Mets on May 10.
Brandon Crawford and Hunter Pence have career batting averages of .500 and .421, respectively, opposite Dodgers starter, McCarthy.
San Francisco is 2-0 in Cain’s last two home starts against the Dodgers.
Writer’s Prediction
LA (-139) wins, 4-3.
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