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07/28/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Rookie Buster Posey tries to extend his 20-game hitting streak this evening when the San Francisco Giants and Florida Marlins resume their four-game series at AT&T Park.
San Francisco stayed hot on Tuesday, as Juan Uribe led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a tie-breaking homer off Brian Sanches and Edgar Renteria added a two-run shot later in the frame, lifting the Giants to a 6-4 win.
Posey had an RBI single in the third inning to extend his streak, while Andres Torres went 3-for-4 and scored twice for the Giants, who won for the fifth time in six contests and moved within 2 1/2 games of San Diego for first place in the NL West.
Dan Uggla belted a pair of solo homers for the Marlins, who lost for just the third time in their last 11 games. Cody Ross added a two-run homer in defeat.
Both starting pitchers lasted seven innings with Florida's Josh Johnson allowing eight hits and three runs. Matt Cain gave up four hits and three runs, while logging six strikeouts.
"It was a nice win, especially who we were going against tonight," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Johnson had gone 13 straight starts without allowing more than two earned runs, a streak dating back to May 8 when he surrendered three runs to the Washington Nationals. The only streak longer was Mike Scott's amazing 14-game run with the Houston Astros in 1986.
"When you allow only three runs and you call that an off day it is amazing," Marlins interim manager Edwin Rodriguez said. "We should have scored for him. He kept us in the game."
Posey, meanwhile, is batting .450 with 23 RBI during the majors' longest active hitting streak, and the second-longest ever by a San Francisco rookie since Hall of Famer Willie McCovey's 22-gamer in 1959.
Hoping to slow Posey down tonight will be righty Alex Sanabia, who is 1-1 with a 2.11. Sanabia did not get a decision on Friday against Atlanta, which managed just a run and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Sanabia has never faced the Giants, who will pin their hopes on Jonathan Sanchez. Sanchez is 7-6 on the year, but has not received a decision in his last three starts. He gave up a run and four hits in five innings on Friday in Arizona, but did not factor in the decision of his team's 7-4 win.
Sanchez is 0-1 in three games (one start) with a 7.36 ERA.
San Francisco swept a three-game set from the Marlins earlier in the year and has won six of the last eight meetings in the series.
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In terms of sports wagering, the NFL is "the most popular game in town." The explanation behind that is easy.
It is called the "pointspread."
Many years ago, NFL games, as well as the more popular college games, used straight odds as a vehicle for betting. For example, if the Bears were playing the Giants, and it shaped up as a competitive contest, the Bears might be, say, a 7/5 favorite. If they were playing an also-ran, it might be 10/1. Well, there is a point where a line becomes prohibitive, as far as betting the favorite. And who would waste money betting an underdog that has virtually no chance? Such a setup did not contribute to promoting betting action.
But in modern sports betting, a "pointspread" is used.
A NFL pointspreads are exactly that, a pre-established point difference between the two sides that will, for all intents and purposes, create a handicap that evens things out, and in doing so, produces comparable wagering activity on both sides of that proposition. So in lieu of a odds figure in which to bet the team to win outright, the Bears might be a three-point favorite over the New York Giants, and a 17-point favorite over the also-ran. Now that the team that is the underdog can "get" points, there can be equal action on both sides.
In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect.
The establishment of the pointspread as the corner stone around which team sports like football can be wagered upon was truly what brought gridiron betting into the stratosphere for online football betting .
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