I am rolling with the Mets tonight for my first 3 unit play of the season. Cards coming off a hard fought, grind series with the Tigers where they played on Sunday night baseball and got to their hotel in New York at 4:30am.
They then played last night and lost in 14 innnings. Lackey lasted 7 and bullpen went the rest of the way.
Wacha has been great overall this year with a 5-0 record, but has only lasted 7 innings twice all year and not since the end of April. This means we are looking at a beat up bull pen for a few innings.
Cards bats are struggling right now. Last 6 games they have scored a combined 12 runs.
On the other side of the coin, Mets are have won a few in a row and Niese is no slouch either. The only reason the Cards opened as this big of a fav is because they are the Cards. They will start to regress a touch and it may be in effect right now. Still nothing crazy, but rolling with this one.
New York Mets +110 (3u)