Man a low total, only one game has a total of 9 or beter and that game is posted 10.
But there have only been 4 games lined that low ever. and the over is 3-1 in them. Games total of 60 there have been 40 with a record of 19-16-5 to the over.
The irony is the last game Kershaw pitched was the one game that was under the 5.5, when he lost to lincecum 1-0. So before that there were only 3 and they were 3-0. Cain pitched in one of those games as well, a 4-3 win over the giants. So only 4 games ever with a total of 5.5 in the history of the game and 2 of them involved the two starters in this game and they were both this month. One on 7-17 and one of 7-20.
So do you go with overall history or recent history and the guy who pitched in the one game that was under, facing the other guy who was also in a game with that low a posted total?
But other than that game you have 4 games lined 7.5 and 1 game 6 and another 6.5.
So all in all it looks like theyre predicting a bunch of boring low scoring games. Either that or they figure without steroids pitchers actually have a shot these days. After all there have been 3 or 4 no hitters and a perfect game or two this year already, and many others that had guys go into the 8th and 9th innings with no nos as well.