Sports Betting Page – Bye Bye Braves. You can say goodbye to the Atlanta Braves from the sports betting page this year. The Atlanta Braves lost on Monday night to the San Francisco Giants as the Giants won the NLDS three games to one. The Giants now move on to the National League Championship Series where they will be underdogs in sports betting at Sbg global.com to the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Giants won 3-2 in Game 4 on Monday night as Cody Ross homered and drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning. The Braves simply could not get the big hit and the Giants advanced to the NL Championship for the first time since 2002.
The End for Bobby Cox – With Atlanta losing to the Giants it marks the end for manager Bobby Cox. His Atlanta team failed again in the playoffs and that may be what Cox is best remembered for. His Atlanta teams were great in the regular season but only once did they win the World Series. The Braves never won a game at Turner Field with a series on the line. It was the eighth straight time that the Braves had lost in that situation at Turner Field. Cox retires with the fourth-most wins in baseball history with 2,504 in the regular season. His Atlanta teams made the playoffs 16 times and only once did he win the World Series.
Close Series – Every game of the San Francisco-Atlanta series was decided by just one run. The Giants won three of those games and advanced to the NLCS against the defending NL champion Phillies.
Long Break for Giants – The National League Championship Series does not begin until Saturday so the Giants get a long break. The Phillies will have been off for even longer since they eliminated the Reds a day earlier. Tim Lincecum will get the start in Game 1 for the Giants while Roy Halladay will get the ball for the Phillies. The Giants and Phillies split their six meetings this season. The Phillies will be solid favorites on the sports betting page to win the National League Championship Series. They don’t have the big pitching edge that they had against the Reds but they still do have a slight edge with Halladay, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels against Lincecum, Matt Cain and Jonathan Sanchez.