The Giants are the better team and have the better starter and stronger bullpen. The price is low enough to back Madison Bumgarner, who is one of the best road pitchers in baseball.

Bumgarner is 8-2 with a 1.75 ERA in a dozen road starts this year. The southpaw also is 7-2 in day games with a 3.14 ERA and is 2-0 with a 1.80 ERA in three lifetime starts against the Mets with 23 strikeouts in 20 innings.

San Francisco is 6-0 during Bumgarner's last six road outings versus teams with a losing record. The Mets are four games below .500 on the season and also have a losing record versus southpaws. The feeble Mets offense is 29th in batting average and 25th in homers. The Giants have defeated the Mets five of the past seven times on the road.

This isn't the best setting for Mets starter, Bartolo Colon. He's 41, overweight and pitching in an August day game backed by an unsteady bullpen. Colon's ERA in day time action is 3.70.