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Play On - (HOUSTON) poor NL hitting team (AVG <=.250) against a team with a bad bullpen (ERA >=5.00), with a starting pitcher whose ERA is 3.70 to 4.20 on the season (NL)
46-21 since 1997. ( 68.7% | 26.0 units )
3-1 this year. ( 75.0% | 2.0 units )
BOSTON is 44-11 (+29.6 Units) against the money line vs. AL teams allowing 5.2 or more runs/game on the season over the last 3 seasons.
The average score was: BOSTON (6.9) , OPPONENT (4.0)
Spurs at Suns
Play Over - Any team in the 2nd game of a playoff series
106-62 over the last 5 seasons. ( 63.1% | 37.8 units )
8-10 this year. ( 44.4% | -3.0 units )
Play Against - Road underdogs vs. the money line (SAN ANTONIO) revenging a road loss vs opponent against opponent after a home game where both teams score 100 or more points
172-47 since 1997. ( 78.5% | 64.4 units )
5-2 this year. ( 71.4% | 0.3 units )
Spurs at Suns
Play Under - All teams where the first half total is 100.5 to 105 in a game involving two average defensive teams (43.5-45.5%), in a game involving two average rebounding teams (+/-3 reb/game) after 42+ games
106-58 over the last 5 seasons. ( 64.6% | 42.2 units )
8-2 this year. ( 80.0% | 5.8 units )
The Phoenix Suns defeated the San Antonio Spurs 111-102 in Game 1 of this series on Monday, but the way the game Spurs came back and kept the pressure on Phoenix until late in the opener leads us to believe that San Antonio will steal Game 2 on the road Wednesday.
The playoff savvy Spurs have just seen basically this same exact scenario in the first round vs. the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas built a big lead in Game 1, only to see the Spurs come back and lose by only six points. San Antonio then came out and dominated Game 2 at Dallas and then went on to hold serve at home and win the series in six.
Well, the Spurs overcame a couple of double-digit deficits here in Phoenix last night, only to actually take a lead in the third quarter and then cut a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit down to one with about four minutes left before the Suns were finally able to edge away. We now look for San Antonio to repeat their Game 2 performance at Dallas by coming out focused from start to finish here.
That is bad news for a Phoenix club that seemed to have the psychological scars of being knocked out of the playoffs by the Spurs three times in the last four years with their tentative play on Monday. The Suns had several chances to bury the Spurs early, but they saw what the heart of a champion can do. Now, we strongly suspect that they will be playing from behind in Game 2, and they have not doe well in that situation vs. San Antonio in the past.
The Spurs may be a seven-seed, but they played good ball down the stretch and this is one team nobody wanted to face in these playoffs. Well, their series win over second-seeded Dallas only validates that, and we now look for them to once again steal home court advantage in this series in Game 2.
Take Texas Rangers (Lewis) -130 @ Oakland Athletics (Cahill) +120
Take St. Louis Cardinals (Penny) -115 @ Philadelphia Phillies (Kendrick) +105
Take San Francisco Giants (Zito) -130 @ Florida Marlins (Robertson) +120
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