Baseball Betting: San Francisco Giants at Seattle Mariners

Added on Jun 15, 2012 by Jack Thurman in

MLB

The San Francisco Giants head to the Pacific Northwest looking to make up even more ground in the NL West as they face the Seattle Mariners in Interleague play. The Giants have narrowed the Dodgers’ lead in the division down to four games and they’re playing some of their best baseball of the season. The Mariners, meanwhile, are mired in last place in the AL West 10 full games behind division leading Texas.

San Francisco Giants at Seattle Mariners
June 15, 2012 7:10 PM Pacific

As noted at the outset the Giants have been playing very good baseball in recent weeks but for whatever reason they don’t seem to have caught the attention of the betting public. They enter this contest having won 9 of their last 13 games, coming off a loss the day after Matt Cain’s incredible 14 strikeout perfect game. The Mariners have lost 8 of their last 12 and were thumped by the San Diego Padres last night.

Not sure why this game has been priced the way it has–the Giants do have a few nagging injuries but otherwise are a significantly superior team in every phase of the game. At 36-28 overall they’ve made +7.2 units for their financial backers while the Mariners have lost -4.5 units for baseball betting enthusiasts by virtue of their 27-38 overall record. At home, Seattle has been at their worst with a record of 10-18 -10 units.

The Mariners have gotten decent work this season out of lefthander Jason Vargas, who checks in with a serviceable 3.90 ERA overall that improves to 2.88 in his home yard. Even with those numbers, the Mariners have split his 14 starts overall (7-7) and have lost 3 of his 5 assignments in the Jet City. The Giants will counter with Ryan Vogelsong who has been good all year and even better in his recent outings–Vogelsong has a 2.26 ERA on the year and the Giants have won 10 of his 12 starts. In his last three starts he’s allowed only 4 earned runs for an ERA in that span of 1.66 and the Giants took victories in each of those games. Against a Mariners team hitting only .199 and averaging 3.1 runs per game at home he could be downright dominant.

San Francisco has fared extremely well against left handed pitching this season going 14-7 +8.3 units against southpaws. The price on this game is a gift–we’ll gladly take the better team in better form at a pick’em price.

Bet San Francisco (Vogelsong) -105 over Seattle (Vargas)