Padres vs. Cardinals Preview: Scoring Expected in MLB Clash

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00:00in the heartland today, San Diego going to take on St. Louis Vasquez vs. Gibson, a slight

00:09favorite here for the hometown cards here to minus 118 price in a total of nine and

00:14a half. It looks like St. Louis just about going to be extinguished here from the playoffs

00:19and the Padres yesterday stole a big time game off of the Mets. What happens tonight

00:23here in St. Louis and San Diego, Tom? I don't know who wins this game, but we're gonna see

00:27some offense in this one. It's super hot in St. Louis. It's gonna be over 90 degrees.

00:31Both pitchers are just about as average. You can get Randy Vasquez, Kyle Gibson. Both have

00:35Babbitts allowed Babbitts over 300. Both strikeout rates under 22%. Gibson's on 1.19 homeruns

00:41per nine. Vasquez at 1.32. There's enough offense on both sides, obviously, mainly with

00:45the Padres. I expect some scoring tonight. It's a basically a coin flip when it comes

00:49to money line, but give me some runs tonight. I don't care who wins. I think the Padres

00:52keep rolling ultimately. Yeah, San Diego, 15 and seven in August, the cards have won

00:58their last two series against the Brewers and the Twins, but still just an even 500

01:03on the outside looking in at the National League playoff picture. Becky, let's go elsewhere

01:08around MLB on this Monday. We're calling it a potential World Series preview. Maybe two

01:15divisional front runners, the Phil's in the National League East, the Astros in the American

01:19League West. They head to the bank today in Philly. Zach Wheeler gets the start for

01:23the Phil's. They're booked as a minus 172 home money line favorite. What's your favorite

01:28play?

01:29That'd be going to Zach Wheeler under six and a half strikeouts. And I've spoken before

01:35over the past few years about Wheeler and Nola being two of the best, if not the two

01:38best pitchers in the NL, that combo. But the Astros are a really good team and the Astros

01:43are super disciplined. I said time and time again, they go super low striker rate versus

01:47raise at 18.5% since the third lowest in the league. They also very solid off to one

01:5111 WRC plus versus Friday. So ultimately I think it's a wash and I think I'll just take

01:55the under on Wheeler tonight. It's also a good hitters park as we know.

01:59So Becky, as we have 11 games on this Monday, it's because of the addition of the double

02:03header in Cleveland day, night double header. What's your best play from the two games in

02:08the land?

02:09Yeah, that's going to be Logan Allen for the guardians under four and a half strikeouts.

02:14He's got a low 19.2% strikeout rate. Royals also super disciplined versus lefties and

02:18also a 19% strike rates. The fifth lowest in the league. You know, looking back over

02:22Allen's game month, we see this one game against the giants with nine strikeouts, but he's

02:26routinely just going for three or four, maybe five on a given day. So again, siding with

02:32the under for a low strikeout picture.