The Giants ended their homestand by pounding hapless San Diego. After a trip across the country, San Francisco will face one of the best in the business in the Mets Jacob deGrom on Saturday afternoon. It’s one thing to rake the pitching-poor Padres, it’s another to handle the Mets brilliant staff.
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ODDS ANALYSIS
The Giants got a visit from two of the worst teams in the National League to help ease some of their concerns. After losing eight of nine games, San Francisco got a gift from the schedule makers. The Giants won two of three from Miami over the weekend before sweeping the Padres ahead of their trip back east. It was a nice finish to a homestand that began with a four-game sweep at the hands of the Diamondbacks. SF was up 4.07 units on the moneyline in its last six games and the over went 6-1 in the last seven.
A pair of three-game sweeps and nine wins in 10 games has the Mets lurking around the top of the NL East standings. After a rough start, New York is right where many predicted they would be, though still behind the Nats. The Metropolitans are in the black 7.83 units during their successful stretch.
PROBABLE PITCHERS
Matt Cain (0-2, 6.43 ERA) received a no-decision Sunday against the Marlins. He left the game with a two-run deficit after surrendering 10 hits, two walks and four runs over 5.2 innings. His mates picked him up with a pair of runs in the sixth to take him off the hook in a game the Giants eventually lost.
Cain broke his season-long fifth-inning hex on Sunday, allowing just one run to Miami after surrendering 11 runs in the fifth inning of his previous three starts. After recording a quality start in his first outing, he’s now allowed 13 runs in 15 innings over his last three appearances to raise his ERA to 6.43. Opponents are also batting .321 against him.
Jacob deGrom (2-0, 1.54 ERA) hurled 5.2 innings of one-run ball Sunday in a win over the Braves. He was activated off the family emergency list prior to the game and surrendered eight hits while striking out three. The right-hander has been limited to two starts due to a lat injury, but should settle into a groove now that he’s past that.
Some of deGrom’s best work has come against the Giants. In two starts against them, deGrom is 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA and 17 strikeouts over 15.1 innings. Hitters on the current San Francisco roster are a combined 5 for 41 against him.
LIVE BETTING
The Mets’ offseason trade for Neil Walker is looking like pure genius. Walker’s improbable power surge continued with a record-tying home run Wednesday night against Cincinnati. In the third inning, Walker blasted his ninth home run of the year over Citi Field’s left-center-field fence, tying Washington’s Bryce Harper for the Major League lead.
The homer also made Walker the fourth Mets player to go deep nine times in April, matching Dave Kingman, Carlos Delgado and John Buck. Only once in Walker’s career has he hit more than 16 homers in a season, launching 23 for the Pirates in 2014. At his current pace, Walker will eclipse that total by the All-Star break.
QUICK PICK
It’s safe to say that Cain isn’t the pitcher he used to be prior to his injury problems and there has been a massive drop off in effectiveness. The Freak, Tim Lincecum, is waiting down in Arizona for the call to take over in the Giants rotation. And while the Giants’ bats had a bit of an awakening with a sweep of San Diego, it is San Diego with one of the worst bullpens in all of baseball. So don’t read too much into Brandon Belt raising his average over .300.
The Mets will trot out a rested and relieved deGrom on Saturday and he’s been lights out against San Francisco during his career. It’s going to be hard for S.F. to keep up as Cain continues his struggles.
MLB Odds: New York 5, San Francisco 2
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BookMaker's live betting platform means you always have access to odds and lines to every sporting event. Click here and start wagering today! First pitch for the game between the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets is scheduled for Saturday, April 30, 2016, at 4:05 p.m. ET at Citi Field. The contest will be televised nationally on FS1.
