Padres at Giants MLB Preview and Free Pick 8-24-08
August 24, 2008
The Giants and Padres meet Sunday in San Francisco. It’s a match up between two of the worst teams in baseball this year. The good news? Somebody gets to walk away with a win!
The Giants were expected to have a bad season, and they have, but you could make the argument that they have exceeded expectations by staying out of last in the NL West. They have the San Diego Padres to thank for that.
The Padres came within one win of going to the World Series last year. Now they are 48-81, in last place, and 20 games out of the lead in their division. Nobody expected this big of a collapse. They’ve had their share of injuries, but they still have a solid core of starting pitchers and position players. It’s hard to pinpoint what all went wrong, but whatever happened, the Padres are barely a shadow of the team they were last year.
The Giants come into Sunday’s game on a bit of a hot streak. They’ve won 4 home games in a row and they are 7-1 at home against teams with a winning percentage of less than .400 (this number only includes the Padres and Nationals, who are the only two NL teams with that bad of a record).
It’s hard to find a team that’s been colder longer than the San Diego Padres. They have won just 17 of their last 59 games. 17! That’s less than .300 ball they are playing in that span. They obviously haven’t been playing well against their division either, in fact, they’ve lost 4 in a row against the NL West.
Two bad teams meet, but one must win. We will take the lesser of the two evils here with the Giants, who are having a bad season by most standards, but one that’s not so bad when compared with the tremendous collapse of the San Diego Padres.
SAN DIEGO PADRES @ SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS
J. Banks (3-6, 4.81), K. Correia (2-7, 5.15)
Sunday’s Free MLB Pick: San Francisco Giants -124
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