Milwaukee Brewers vs. St. Louis Cardinals Prediction and Betting Pick
The 2-5 Milwaukee Brewers are set to take on the 4-3 St. Louis Cardinals today April 16, 2015 at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals are a -148 favorite while the total line is posted at 7.5. First pitch is at 1:45 PM EST.
Last night’s second game of a three game series saw the Cardinals win 4-2 at home over Brewers. The posted line for this game was St. Louis at -12 while the over under was 7.5. Those bettors who backed the Cardinals boosted their bankroll as well as the under the total bettors. Going into game 3 the Cardinals will look to extend their 4-3 record starting while the Brewers will pin their hopes on the big bat of Jean Segura who after a tough 2014 on and off the season averaged a 305 batting average in spring training and is hitting 304 with a homer and two doubles in 25 plate appearances. The Cardinals own the No. 8 position for hits at 8.33 while the Brewers are sitting in 20th position with 7.29 hits per game. St. Louis owns the 7th ranked position on defense while in contrast the Brewer are 29th in runs allowed.
Wagering Odds
Moneyline: St. Louis -148/Milwaukee +138
Total O/U: 7.5
Milwaukee at St. Louis Betting Trends
In Milwaukee’s last 8 games as a dog the total has gone under 7 times.
The game total has gone under 9 times out of 11 games with Milwaukee on the road.
St. Louis is 38-18 in their last 56 home games.
The game went over the posted total 12 times in the last 17 times these two played.
Milwaukee is 22-45 in their last 67 games against St. Louis.
Injury Report
MILWAUKEE BREWERS
Jim Henderson
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
Jaime Garcia
Thomas Pham
Consensus Betting
Milwaukee: 31%
St. Louis: 69%
Free MLB Pick
Milwaukee (5th – NL Central) at St. Louis (3rd – NL Central)
The Brew Crew had a horrendous start to the season winning just 1 of 6, but here they are on the road with a perfect 1-0 record against a Cardinal team that has yet to get their wings under them in 2015. We aren’t going to argue that Milwaukee’s Mike Fiers wasn’t at his best in his first start of the campaign, but hey it was the opener and he should be better this go around. He did strike out 8 in the game while walking only 1 so there was some positive aspects to his game. Another key stat to consider here is that Fiers has been very good in his four lifetime starts against St. Louis falling 1/3 of an inning short of being 4 for 4 in quality starts against them. Lackey was nothing to write home about in his first start allowing 4 runs in 6 innings including being taken out of the park on two occasions. While we’re knocking Lackey he is streaky and nothing from his opener suggests a superior game on Thursday. The linesmaker has overvalued the Birds so we may as well take advantage of the generous odds.
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