Unbelievable Showdown: Can Ray and Giants Finally Overpower Cease and Padres?

We hit another 2-0 day yesterday and if you played the Rockies moneyline as mentioned, you picked up another victory there. I’ve been talking about becoming locked in all season, and I finally feel like I’m picking the games that I can see a clear edge on. Maybe it is just a good week, maybe it is me finally getting back into the groove, whatever it is, let’s keep it rolling here as the Padres take on the Giants. 

The Padres have had an interesting season. They enter today’s contest with a mark of 35-25, 10 games over .500 and still in second place of the division. I don’t think any of those numbers are all that surprising. The team is loaded with talent, but they live in the division with the Dodgers who are also loaded with talent and some of the best players in the game. So what is interesting about their season? They have three winning streaks already of five games or more this year. They also have had two losing streaks of four games or more. When they lose games, they’ve lost at least two in a row six times. That means that they’ve only lost one game in a row six times as well. They lost last night, so which way will the team fall today? Dylan Cease looks to keep the team from losing today. Cease is just 1-4 with a 4.66 ERA and a 1.29 WHIP. He hasn’t been quite the pitcher that you’ve become accostomed to over the past few seasons, but he hasn’t been bad either. He has not allowed more than three earned runs in any of the past nine games, but he has completed six innings or more in just three of those games. The Giants hitters are batting only .200 against him.

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