The Cardinals and Brewers open a series tonight in Milwaukee, and St. Louis is the play as they head towards another NL Central crown.
Today the St Louis Cardinals will be on the road as they take on the Milwaukee Brewers. We will side with the Cardinals!
The Cardinals come into this game playing solid baseball (currently on a 4-1 run), and should be able to beat a below-average Brewers team tonight. The Cardinals will send to the mound Anthony Reyes who has already proven he can beat the Brewers. Reyes faced the Brewers once in the 2005 season, and once in the current 2006 season. In the 2005 season (8/9/05) he held the Brewers to only two runs in 6.1 innings pitched. In this current 2006 season (8/5/06) Reyes held the Brewers to only three runs in 5 innings pitched.
We see Anthony Reyes pitching another solid game against the poor bats of the Brewers.
While the Brewers are finding it hard to score runs, the Cardinals will be scoring runs easily. That's because the Brewers will send to the mound Chris Capuano who lost his last start against the Cardinals on 8/6/06. And we don't see anything special from him tonight.
The Brewers are also 2-8 in Capuano's last 10 overall starts. It's also good to note that the Brewers are 8-23 when facing the Cardinals at Milwaukee, as well as being 20-45 in their last 65 games against the Cardinals.
The Brewers, behind their ace Chris Capuano and theirh home field advantage, have the edge tonight against the Cardinals.
The St. Louis Cardinals have all but wrapped up the NL Central, leading the Cincinnati Reds by seven games going into tonight's game vs the Brewers. Although we don't feel the Cardinals will let up in the slightest until they have clinched, we think the "Cards" may be stacked against them in this contest.
Milwaukee starts one of the better left-handers in the NL tonight in Chris Capuano. He has been sparkling at home this season going 8-4 with a nice ERA of just 2.93, and St Louis has been dreadful against left-handed pitching all season, going just 22-31. Furthermore, Capuano has had some success vs the Cardinals in his career, posting a nice 4-2 record.
St. Louis starter Anthony Reyes isn't anything to write home about, coming in with a bloated ERA of 5.53 on the road this season. In his last start, he was shellacked for seven earned runs in just 2.1 IP vs. the Diamondbacks.
Teams usually perform well when their ace takes the mound and we feel the Brew Crew will knock Reyes around enough to come out on top in this contest.
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