The San Francisco Giants are looking to keep pace with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West this afternoon in Arizona. Madison Bumgarner will face off against Andrew Chafin who is making his second major league start. The two teams come into this matchup from completely different perspectives. The Giants are looking to win the division in order to avoid a one game wildcard playoff, in which they lead right now. The Diamondbacks, however, are looking to get a glimpse of the future, winning in particular in not necessarily the priority, as examplified by calling up AAA ace Chafin.
Bumgarner has quietly made his way into the Cy Young Award talks, although the possibility is weak at best considering Clayton Kershaw's phenomenal year. Bumgarner has only given up 11 runs since the start of August 9 of which have come on the road in 3 starts. However, two of those starts were against playoff teams from the American League followed by National League games, two of which were within the division. Winning is the goal every time out but league games and division games in particular hold much more weight. Bumgarner should continue his strong pitching this afternoon.
On the other side, Andrew Chafin make his second major league start after his solid outing in mid August giving up no runs on 3 hits in 5 innings against the Cleveland Indians. The reason for the call up, aside from getting a closer look against major league talent, is the fact that Chafin finished his triple A playoff run with 15 scoreless innings. His last game was a 4 hit shutout with 6 strikeouts and 0 walks.
With that said I'll take the more experienced pitcher on the better team with the entire bullpen available as the Giants have a day off tomorrow. Arizona will not manage this game for the win, rather they would like to see how their young pitcher does in the majors. This means that if Chafin gets in trouble, they will leave him in to see if he can work out of jams. Even if he gives the Diamondbacks 5 or 6 scoreless innings, the bullpen will surely be another audition for young arms.
It should be a low scoring game, but the more likely scenario is the Giants winning this game. Too much of a risk with young pitchers going for Arizona to take the under. The -180 line suggests the Giants win this game 64% of the time, I think there is good evidence that they would take this matchup more than 64%.
The San Francisco Giants are looking to keep pace with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West this afternoon in Arizona. Madison Bumgarner will face off against Andrew Chafin who is making his second major league start. The two teams come into this matchup from completely different perspectives. The Giants are looking to win the division in order to avoid a one game wildcard playoff, in which they lead right now. The Diamondbacks, however, are looking to get a glimpse of the future, winning in particular in not necessarily the priority, as examplified by calling up AAA ace Chafin.
Bumgarner has quietly made his way into the Cy Young Award talks, although the possibility is weak at best considering Clayton Kershaw's phenomenal year. Bumgarner has only given up 11 runs since the start of August 9 of which have come on the road in 3 starts. However, two of those starts were against playoff teams from the American League followed by National League games, two of which were within the division. Winning is the goal every time out but league games and division games in particular hold much more weight. Bumgarner should continue his strong pitching this afternoon.
On the other side, Andrew Chafin make his second major league start after his solid outing in mid August giving up no runs on 3 hits in 5 innings against the Cleveland Indians. The reason for the call up, aside from getting a closer look against major league talent, is the fact that Chafin finished his triple A playoff run with 15 scoreless innings. His last game was a 4 hit shutout with 6 strikeouts and 0 walks.
With that said I'll take the more experienced pitcher on the better team with the entire bullpen available as the Giants have a day off tomorrow. Arizona will not manage this game for the win, rather they would like to see how their young pitcher does in the majors. This means that if Chafin gets in trouble, they will leave him in to see if he can work out of jams. Even if he gives the Diamondbacks 5 or 6 scoreless innings, the bullpen will surely be another audition for young arms.
It should be a low scoring game, but the more likely scenario is the Giants winning this game. Too much of a risk with young pitchers going for Arizona to take the under. The -180 line suggests the Giants win this game 64% of the time, I think there is good evidence that they would take this matchup more than 64%.
Scare with two on and no one out in the first inning but Bumgarner gets out of it... He had similar issues that he didn't get out of when facing Detroit 3 starts ago. However, he cruised the rest of the game....
Scare with two on and no one out in the first inning but Bumgarner gets out of it... He had similar issues that he didn't get out of when facing Detroit 3 starts ago. However, he cruised the rest of the game....
This game is looking like a tease. You catch a break w all those runners left on the bases, so you think your team can score a couple and take this down
Too bad the giants bats have suddenly gone super quiet.
Hopefully the giants can get some runs off the bullpen
This game is looking like a tease. You catch a break w all those runners left on the bases, so you think your team can score a couple and take this down
Too bad the giants bats have suddenly gone super quiet.
Hopefully the giants can get some runs off the bullpen
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