April 30th Baseball
962 ... Arizona ... +101
9:40pm EDT ... San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks ... Chase Field ... Phoenix
Arizona — Cahill has been suffering from similar problems as Strasburg to start the year in that he simply doesn’t get run support … 3, 3, 1, 3 and 1 in his 5 starts this year.
Cahill is a perfect fit for the ballpark, as he throws a heavy ground ball. He has been extremely hard to hit and if he has had a problem, it has been with walks, but most of that came in two starts against a patient Rockies lineup.
SF is way below league average in walks and the aforementioned groundball bias induces double plays that can get him out of potential jams. Good numbers against Giants bats (28 hits in 38.1 innings pitched the last 3 years vs. this team), good home pitcher, good night pitcher. I prefer the Dbacks lineup.
Not much to dislike about Bumgarner but the Dbacks just saw him for 7 1/3 innings a week ago. A few key bats see him well. Three-year splits show an under .500 away pitcher (better form now though). He has thrown a whopping 515 pitches in April already! And that almost always catches up to a pitcher at some point.
Concerns are Bumgarner form and Arizona lack of ability to hit lefties so far this year.
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962 ... Arizona ... +101
9:40pm EDT ... San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks ... Chase Field ... Phoenix
Arizona — Cahill has been suffering from similar problems as Strasburg to start the year in that he simply doesn’t get run support … 3, 3, 1, 3 and 1 in his 5 starts this year.
Cahill is a perfect fit for the ballpark, as he throws a heavy ground ball. He has been extremely hard to hit and if he has had a problem, it has been with walks, but most of that came in two starts against a patient Rockies lineup.
SF is way below league average in walks and the aforementioned groundball bias induces double plays that can get him out of potential jams. Good numbers against Giants bats (28 hits in 38.1 innings pitched the last 3 years vs. this team), good home pitcher, good night pitcher. I prefer the Dbacks lineup.
Not much to dislike about Bumgarner but the Dbacks just saw him for 7 1/3 innings a week ago. A few key bats see him well. Three-year splits show an under .500 away pitcher (better form now though). He has thrown a whopping 515 pitches in April already! And that almost always catches up to a pitcher at some point.
Concerns are Bumgarner form and Arizona lack of ability to hit lefties so far this year.
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