Cardinals vs Marlins Prediction
The St. Louis Cardinals will play the Miami Marlins in Game 2 of their series on Tuesday afternoon at loanDepot park in Miami, Florida.
Cardinals Preview
The St. Louis Cardinals are 35-49 this season and they have lost four of their last six games. Prior to losing the first game in this series, St. Louis won two out of three games against the Yankees. The St. Louis pitching staff has a 4.54 ERA, a 1.46 WHIP, and a .273 opponent batting average this season. The Cardinals offense has scored 387 runs with a .252 batting average and a .327 on base percentage. Nolan Arenado is batting .277 with 16 home runs and 55 RBI’s for the Cardinals. The projected starting pitcher for St. Louis is Adam Wainwright, who is 3-3 with a 7.45 ERA and a 1.94 WHIP over 48.1 innings pitched this year.
Marlins Preview
The Miami Marlins are 49-37 this season and they have lost three of their last four games. Miami won the first game in this series by a score of 5-4 on Monday night. The Miami pitching staff has a 4.07 ERA, a 1.26 WHIP, and a .242 opponent batting average. The Marlins offense has scored 346 runs with a .260 batting average and a .319 on base percentage this year. Luis Arraez is batting .388 with three home runs and 41 RBI’s for the Marlins. The projected starting pitcher for Miami is Jesus Luzardo, who is 6-5 with a 3.53 ERA and a 1.15 WHIP over 97.0 innings pitched this season.
Trends
St. Louis is 4-2 in their last 6 road games and 4-10 in their last 14 games against the NL East. The over is 5-1 in St. Louis’ last 6 road games. Miami is 6-1 in their last 7 games against the NL Central and 17-5 in their last 22 home games. The under is 41-13-3 in Miami’s last 57 game two’s of a series. St. Louis is 10-4 in these two teams last 14 head to head meetings.
Pick
The Cardinals had the lead late in the game on Monday night, but they allowed three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning for the loss. St. Louis is starting Adam Wainwright, who has allowed 13 earned runs over his last 4.2 innings of work. Miami is starting Jesus Luzardo, who has allowed two earned runs or fewer in four of his last five starts. I like the Marlins -1.5 in this matchup.
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