World Series outright betting.

The season wouldnt start properly without the annual marlins will do well this season post.

CHICAGO CUBS

GET ON!!

im in big on the disjointed Mets. small bets on the Reds and the White Sox.

Phillies for me

3-0 Start for Giants. Nice.

Nice start for the Giants :-)

Still far too many games to go though :-(

Cmon the Giants!

Would take a f00k up of the most epic proportions to not mae the post season from here.

Phillys V Yanks again?

Giants advance to the NLCS!

Can't see them getting past the Phillies though, unless the bats turn hot.

Great stuff. It's been a great season.

You trading out or leaving it?

I'm in it for the long run, all or nothing for me

Nah, I'm gonna let it run. I only invested £20, purely because I was feeling particularly flush after landing a couple of mugg accas. Normally I struggle to justify putting money into a market that could run for more than a day, never mind 7 months!

Can't see us beating Halladay in Game 1 though. Doc is more likely no pitch another no hitter than any of the Giants doing anything of note against him! All depends on whether Lincecum can go toe to toe with him.

I wonder what the total runs line will be on this one...

do either sf or tex have a realistic chance of causing an upset? the phi rotation is pretty awesome. although the nyy pitchers look a tad vulnerable they should get a lot of run support. phi/nyy ws looks a given.

I wouldn't rule out the Giants. Phillies have had a fair few spells this season where their bats turned stone cold. Halladay finished the season with 10 losses, a fair few of which I'm sure were 1-0 losses.

Giants' rotation is just as good as the Phillies. The only difference is that the Phillies have a LOT a recent playoff experience, whereas Giants have only played one series in the last 8 years.

This series has the potential to go right down to the wire.

I think the Yanks have too many hitters in their team to have any woes with the bat. If anything it's about controlling how many runs they leak. Should be one high scoring series and one low scoring series IMO.

phi bats are hot now, though. no reason to think they'll freeze overnight. we shall see

every time i happened to watch cc he had a bad game, so despite what i said earlier i'm having a dabble on tex tonight

3-0!

No surprise to see the Yankees batters get CC out of a hole again. Also no surprise to see that this went over the total runs.

RE the Phillies vs Giants, no matter how good your batters are, it is always difficult to hit high class pitching. This series will be more about the battle of the bullpens than the starting pitchers IMO. Although Halladay pitches so many complete games that the Phillies might not even need their bullpen tonight. 

good lord! nyy won went to bed at 5-0

that's a huge psychological blow. can tex recover from that to challenge?

lowest texas went? 1.05?

i greened at 1.16

Texas 1.03 I believe.

Amazing game in the end.

They only have themselves to blame, they had easy chances to go 4-0 up 3 times before they did.

Unders in the Giants @ Phillies tonight, anyone?

1.03? all that lovely green squandered

rela madrid or mlb? shirley sport needs a worldwide body to prevent silly timetable clashes like this

Which line Delp?

Over 8.5 in the Yankees game first 4 me

Not had a bet on the Yankees onions, though judging by the way it's going overs would have been the call. [;)]

I'm just looking forward to the second game.

I did over 9.5 yesterday and over 8.5 today but got robbed on the price

I might try over 7.5 on San fran, should be a tight low scoring game but you never know

All over, series tied 1-1

Now time for the real match to start

Hmm,  Phillies got a couple of nice connections on a couple of pitches, 2 caught right at the wall. Still, Timmy survives the inning, 0-0 after 1.

I've gone for a (very) optimistic over 7.5

I'd like San fran to win, but if they don't then losing 8-0 would be nice

May as well have a nibble on Phillies -7.5 too in that case.

San Fran swinging on everything at the moment

Home plate umpire calling strike 3

Not yet mate

Was looking forward to this game until I realised McCarver and Buck were doing it.   

Seems only a matter of time before a ball sails into the crowd off a Phillies bat. Already 4 caught at the track in only 2 inns.

hazzzzzzaaaaah

Giants go loooooong

1-0

What aa crazy game, giants offer nothing, and then get a homer

I agree, Phillies look like they will hammer at last one out the park

It was coming.

1-1

1-1

Wouldn't think Lincecum has won the last 2 Cy Young's based on this start. Fortunate to have only given up 1 so far.

I like Tim and rate him highly, but this is a poor start from the guy.

Nearly as bad a CC in the first game yesterday

Umpire doing him no favours there, ball 3 was right down the middle, ball 4 close.

Na that pitch was low to chase

Yeah, it seems he's had a couple of 'borderline' decisions go against him.

Howard

What the hell was he swinging at?

Phew. HUGE K for Lincecum there, Phillies could have pretty much been out of sight if Howard managed a hit there.

2 runs after 3 innings, isn't great, and should have been more, but its a start.

If Tim keeps going 2-0, then he will be in serious trouble.

So many people left on base

Timmy struggling to find the strike zone at all.

There'll be plenty more on base at this rate.

so many left on ****ing base

Not really, six through four innings with the score 1-1 is pretty standard.

If you'd never watched baseball before, you wouldn't think these 2 had a no hitter and a 2 hit shut out respectively in their last starts.

Cody Ross 2nd homer of the nite

Bottom_of_the_League     17 Oct 10 02:09 
Not really, six through four innings with the score 1-1 is pretty standard.


6 from 8 hits is anything but 'standard'

2-1 Giants Ross AGAIN!

*7 hits even.

The average number of LOB per game over a season is about 14, or 1.55 per inning (for both teams combined). 6 LOB after 4 innings is 1.5 per inning, looks pretty standard to me.

You are comparing it to everyone over a season.

San fran are low scorers, and therefore don't get as many on base.

Either way, it's still a large amount.

*even if it is 'average'

Of course if you're needing runs, every LOB is a potential run so it distorts your view.

Looking at the Giants specifically, they were 19th this season in MLB for OBP. Just below average, so there are 11 teams with fewer men on base this past season.

7th of 16 in the NL too, since AL teams get more men on base generally with pitchers not having to hit.

I assume by the first line of your comment you are accusing me of being biased, which I must tell you I've got 50's and 25's (as previously mentioned) on Giants for the world series, so I'm not sure why i would be biased as they are 2-1 and it's going my way, but fair enough

*

The Giants get pretty much an average number of men on base, the two teams had pretty much the average number of men left on base the first four innings.

I don't see how that can be anything but pretty standard. You said it wasn't. I disagree.

3-1

Looked god on the contact

Looked a clear home run off the bat, but didn't matter as he scored anyway.

4-1

I should moan more often about the LOB

wow, 4-1!

Halladay taking punishment from a team with no bats

Bottom_of_the_League     17 Oct 10 02:31 
Looked a clear home run off the bat, but didn't matter as he scored anyway.

Agree, and Phillies have every right to be unhappy, pitch before looked a strike out

Looked like it only just missed the strike zone when they replayed it/

It's been a strange game. The strike zone looked pretty big the first two innings, but then suddenly he is calling everything close a ball. All you want is consistency and the umpire hasn't been.

BOTL - I think thats what keeps most big punters away from MLB.

I've not been on this forum often but I remember Lori (who seemed to create most the markets) giving it up, and I think that was one of the reasons.

This game should really be 2-1, as it was a strike (imo) but I can't moan. Got Giants for the World Series and over 7.5 this game, so it's either 1-0 Giants for the series, or I win my bet. Either way i can't moan, and you never know, Giants could win 7-1

Lori was a relatively small player according to himself. I was for a long time Betfair's large baseball gambler in terms of turnover, and still was this season last I heard. You can win on the sport, you just need to be very strict as the margins are tight.

Howard teeing off as if he's playing golf

4-3

4-3

4 homers in a duel between the 2 best pitchers in the NL.

Should make for a good finish at least.

Ah fair play BOTL... without this sounding bad, but I assume you had another account before as I've hardly seen you about

I need 1 more run, prefer it to be giants

tai671

Ah, well hello. I do remember ya quite well.

Someone took my lay of over 7.5 @ 1.3 pretty quickly it seems.

Although thinking back it was a bit high, but waited to play it safe

Someone is slightly too far ahead to be leaving money up I think.

bases loaded, 1 out for Giants

Chance for the over here.

All over, Giants win 4-3!

any thoughts on tonights game, difficult one to call?

oswalt was average enough in the regular season but it's a game the phillies really can't afford to lose

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do either sf or tex have a realistic chance of causing an upset? the phi rotation is pretty awesome. although the nyy pitchers look a tad vulnerable they should get a lot of run support. phi/nyy ws looks a given.




what a silly 9th inn that was

bloody 7th inn stretch doing my head in. i've got "god bless america" stuck in my head

Cody Ross on a special regimen of 'roids for the playoffs [;)]

i'm shokked atnyy's price with burnett pitching

Also Wednesday with no 1st baseman.

When AJ was with the Jays and fell behind in the count he couldn't go to his curveball, which at the time was just about his only decent pitch, and certainly was his get out pitch.

Some strange decisions prior to Molina's homer last night, the Yankees didn't seem to know what they were doing. Looking forward to the game just about to start, always good to see the Yankees under pressure.

SLightly worried by the Rangers though, their bats are red hot right now.

Not to curse them but this thread and tip is threatening to become the best one of year. Well done delpiero7. 

Getting close

Thanks rink rat. There’s still time for it to go t1ts up however!

I wouldn’t call it a great tip though, as much as I’d love to! It was just a £20 bet that I put on them at what I thought were pretty nice odds given their pitching rotation. I thought Lincecum, Cain, Zito and Sanchez would give teams trouble more often than not. Didn’t know much at all about Bumgarner, who now seems to have overtaken Zito (who this year earns $3.5m more than the other 4 starting pitchers put together!)

I wasn’t even aware how strong or otherwise their batting line up was. As it turns out they’re making the runs when they need them most, which is very pleasing.

Hopefully they can pinch a game in Texas so that they’re not trailing 3-2 by the time they return to SF. Or better still, let’s hope they make it boring and complete the sweep on Sunday, Onions!

One game away...

We've only hours away now.

Good job, put $12 @30's when I read. Congragulations!

fully deserved