The Giants have vaulted to the top of the AL West standings partly due to their success against the last-place Padres. The teams square off again on Monday, just four days after San Francisco completed its second three-game sweep of the season over the Friars.
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ODDS ANALYSIS
The Giants have used the San Diego Padres as their personal punching bag so far in 2016. San Francisco’s dominance over the NL West cellar-dwellers is a main reason why the G-Men have charged to the top of the division standings.
The teams met just last week with the Giants getting their second three-game sweep over San Diego. San Francisco pitching has allowed one or fewer runs in four of the six meetings with the under at 4-2 in the series. The Giants should beat up on the Padres, and they have.
PROBABLE PITCHERS
Drew Pomeranz (4-4, 1.96 ERA) will face the Giants for the third time this season and square off with Cueto for the second straight start on Monday. He was the tough-luck loser on Wednesday throwing six innings with just four hits and two runs allowed, but took his fourth defeat of the year. A fourth-inning Hunter Pence homer ended his scoreless streak at 18 and was all the offense the Giants needed in a 2-1 win.
Pomeranz has lost both starts to the Giants this season and is 1-4 with a 5.51 ERA in six starts over eight career appearances against them. But he continues to impress in his first season in San Diego, sporting a 1.96 and 1.07 WHIP through 46.0 innings.
Johnny Cueto (6-1, 2.70 ERA) fired his second complete game of the year in a 2-1 victory over the Padres on Wednesday. He gave up just four hits and fanned eight, working at least seven innings for the eighth time in his nine starts. He’s on pace to throw 255 innings this year.
Both complete game gems have come against San Diego and Cueto has allowed just 11 hits and one run with 19 punchouts against the punchless Padres this year. He’s 6-3 with a 3.04 ERA in 10 career starts against the Friars.
LIVE BETTING
If past performance is any indication of future outcomes, don’t expect the Padres to light up the ATT Park scoreboard when they face Cueto and the Giants. San Francisco’s free agent signee has been spectacular in his first season in the Bay Area and he gets a chance to pad his pitching stats against the weak-hitting Padres.
Cueto tossed a pair of complete game masterpieces against San Diego this season and is already halfway to his season career-best of four, which he attained in 2014. He’s given up just 11 hits and the Padres are hitting .177 against him. He also has 19 strikeouts and just three walks in those two outings for an impressive 0.78 WHIP. Cueto has taken advantage of a Padres team that hits just .228 as team
QUICK PICK
It’s hard to win games when you can’t score runs and the Padres once again are struggling to do that. The season-opening series where San Diego was blanked three times by the Dodgers set the tone for what was to come. The Friars have been shutout nine times and scored one run in a game six times through their first 42 contests. They’ve made average pitchers look great and above average hurlers look like Cy Young. Cueto has owned them this season and the Padres don’t have to counter.
MLB Odds: San Francisco 5, San Diego 1
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