MLB odds: Cardinals-Brewers prediction, odds and pick

St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers are playing a game with playoff implications. Cardinals have won the season series 9-8. Brewers lost their last game on Sunday. They are 1.5 games out of the final Wild Card spot in the NL with nine games left. Adrian Houser will start for Milwaukee.

The Cardinals are playing in Milwaukee tonight. They lost their last two games. The team has a lot of good players at the plate. Miles Mikolas is 7-4 in 12 career appearances against the Brewers. He has also a good record at American Family Field. The Cardinals need to win to cover the spread. It's a division race with a week to go until the postseason. St. Louis has posted top-ten marks in runs scored, batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging percentage.

The Brewers are trying to reach the postseason for the sixth year in a row. They play nine consecutive home games down the stretch. The Brewers play their divisional rivals, the Cardinals, on Tuesday evening.

The Brewers lost to the Reds on Sunday. They are on a four-game winning streak. Milwaukee has scored the ninth most runs in the league and has a very effective .411 slugging percentage. Their pitching staff is even better than their bats. Adrian Houser is expected to start for the Brewers. The team has posted a 3.90 team ERA and a .231 batting average.

The Cardinals and Brewers are playing each other. The Cardinals are favored to win.