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06/23/2010 - Houston, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jeff Keppinger finished 2-for-4 with a three- run double as Houston topped San Francisco, 6-3, in the middle test of a three-game series from Minute Maid Park.
Carlos Lee and Chris Johnson both collected a pair of hits and drove in a run for the Astros, who halted a five-game skid.
Brett Myers (5-5) allowed six hits and three runs -- one earned -- over seven innings. The veteran right-hander fanned four, walked three and helped his cause with two hits and an RBI.
Matt Lindstrom retired the final three batters in the contest to notch his 16th save.
Aubrey Huff, Andres Torres and Juan Uribe knocked in a run each for the Giants, who had won two in a row.
Barry Zito (7-4) was tagged for seven hits and five runs over just four full frames.
Houston got on the board in the first as Lance Berkman stroked a ground-rule double to left ahead of Lee's RBI single.
The Astros came back with three more in the second. Two walks and a single from Myers loaded the bases with two outs before Keppinger unloaded a bases- clearing double. Keppinger, though, ended the inning when he was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a triple.
It was 5-0 in the fourth when Johnson reached first on a third-strike wild pitch from Zito and later scored on a Myers base hit.
San Francisco finally responded with two in the fifth on an RBI triple from Torres and a fielder's choice from Huff, but that was offset by Johnson's run- scoring double in the sixth for a 6-2 Houston edge.
The Giants threatened in the eighth, putting runners on first and second with one out against Brandon Lyon, but a pop out and strike out quelled the rally.
Lindstrom sent down the visitors in order in the ninth to cap the victory.
Game Notes
With his outing, Myers set a new Astros club record for consecutive six- inning-or-more starts from the beginning of the season with 16 in a row...Mike Hampton previously held the mark with 15 in a row from the start of the 1998 campaign...It was Houston's first win over San Francisco this season after seven straight losses, and the win snapped the Astros' nine-game losing string dating back to last August...Prior to the game, Houston placed shortstop Tommy Manzella on the 15-day disabled list and recalled infielder Oswaldo Navarro from Triple-A Round Rock.
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Rule No. 1 in the gamblers' handbook states, "Avoid sports betting on meaningless games."
When you're drowning in a sea of baseball monotony, however, things change. Even a hint of pro football betting can persuade the most disciplined bettor to break a few rules.
The NFL preseason is around the corner, with a tempting Hall of Fame match kicking off on Sunday. But bettors must stay vigilant. Wagering on NFL exhibition games is an entirely different beast than the regular season. Most fans don't recognize the players on the field because starters get as much action in August as Warcraft fans get on Prom night.
The only certainty about the NFL this time of year is uncertainty – and yet there are some who say betting in August can be a gold mine.
“I actually feel the NFL preseason presents solid profit opportunities for sharp bettors and handicappers,” Sports Expert Steve Merril explains. “My experience has been that the sportsbooks fear the preseason, which is evident by lower limits and massive moves.”
The line moves are attributed to the limited knowledge available regarding playing-time distribution. One team’s top unit out on the field for one more series has an impact on the pointspread. Setting lines in the preseason often is a shot in the dark.
“We base the betting lines mostly on public perception,” Pete Korner, founder of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, says. “It’s very tough to predict, almost a guessing game.”
The preseason is all about figuring out who’s in and for how long.
“It becomes a race between bettors and oddsmakers to find out how long the quarterbacks are going to stay in,” Korner admits. “If a sharp gets the information first, he could exploit an early line. I’m a full believer in moving the line in the preseason if the books find out something late in the week.”
Determining what each team’s motive is can help bettors handicap. To do this you must pay close attention to the philosophies head coaches employ in exhibition play.
“You need to know what a coach is trying to accomplish,” says Covers Expert Bryan Leonard. “Sometimes a new coach will want to instill a winning attitude. Others just want to make sure their starters don’t get hurt."
So how do you distinguish who’s playing scared and who’s playing for keeps?
“Head coaches on the hot seat or new coaches trying to implement a winning attitude usually try harder to win in the preseason,” Merril says.
Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel fits this criteria. He’s entering his third season as the sideline boss and has yet to lead the Browns to more than six wins.
Cleveland is an enticing bet as well because of the unresolved quarterback situation. General manager Phil Savage sacrificed the Browns’ first-round pick in next year’s draft for Brady Quinn, but the former Notre Dame quarterback hasn’t signed or reported to training camp yet.
Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson split time at QB last season and it looks like either player (or even Quinn) could be the opening-day starter.
“If a team has quarterback depth and the pecking order hasn’t been decided, it’s a big advantage,” Leonard says.
Even in the third week of the preseason when starters generally play the most, the final outcome of the game is in the hands of fringe players. A team's talent, all the way down to the last man on the roster, is something to consider.
The New England Patriots have long been considered one of the deeper teams in the NFL and coach Bill Belichick has said in the past he’s unafraid of stars getting hurt in games with nothing on the line. He shocked his colleagues in 2003 by playing some of his starters on special teams in the preseason.
“We want to have the team ready to play a tough, physical game and preparation has to go into that and I imagine a certain amount of injuries go with it,” Belichick told the Providence Journal in August 2003.
Bettors can only hope to find more teams that share the Pats' business-like approach to the preseason (New England is 17-9-3 against the spread since 2000) and take advantage of teams who detest the exhibition schedule.
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