St. Louis Cardinals at Arizona Diamondbacks Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 62-61 Arizona Diamondbacks play host to the 78-45 St. Louis Cardinals in MLB action on the grass of Chase Field, August 24, 2015. The first pitch is scheduled for 10:10PM ET.
Betting Odds
Moneyline: Diamondbacks +111/Cardinals -121
O/U Total: 8
Pitching Matchup
Lance Lynn (R) W/L 9-8 WHIP 1.31 ERA 2.94
Robbie Ray (L) W/L 3-9 WHIP 1.25 ERA 3.38
St. Louis was a 10-3 winner at San Diego yesterday. They are 1-2 on their road trip and 5-4 in their last 9 games. Arizona was a 4-0 winner at Cincinnati on Sunday to complete a 4-game sweep. They were 6-4 on their road trip.
The Cardinals lead the season series 3-0 and have a commanding 9-1 lead in the last 10 encounters between these two clubs.
Lynn was a 2-0 loser to San Francisco in his last start. He went 6.2 innings, allowed both runs and struck out 6 for his 15th Q start of the year.
Ray was a 4-1 loser at Pittsburgh in his last outing. He surrendered 3 runs over 6 innings for his 8th Q start of the season.
This will be the Cardinals first look at Ray.
Arizona OF David Peralta is 3-4 (.750) against Lynn with a HR and 2 RBIs while C Welington Castillo is 4-6 (.667) with a solo HR. 1B Paul Goldschmidt is 3-10 (.300) vs. the right-hander with a pair of RBIs while OF A.J. Pollock is 4-14 (.286) with a SB.
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St. Louis at Arizona Betting Trends
St. Louis is 9-1 straight up in their last 10 games against Arizona
The Cardinals are 7-3 straight up in their last 10 road games against Arizona.
The game total has gone under in 4 of St. Louis’s last 5 games against Arizona.
The Diamondbacks are 4-1 straight up in their last 5 games overall.
Arizona is 6-2 straight up in their last 8 games at home.
Injury Report
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS
Matt Adams 1B 60-Day Disabled List
Matt Belisle P 60-Day Disabled List
Randal Grichuk OF 15-Day Disabled List
Matt Holliday OF 15-Day Disabled List
Jon Jay OF 15-Day Disabled List
Adam Wainwright P 60-Day Disabled List
Jordan Walden P 60-Day Disabled List
ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS
Archie Bradley P 15-Day Disabled List
Tuffy Gosewisch C 60-Day Disabled List
Phil Gosselin 3B 60-Day Disabled List
Jeremy Hellickson 15-Day Disabled List
Consensus Pick (Moneyline)
St. Louis: 78%
Arizona: 22%
Free MLB Pick
St. Louis scored 10 runs yesterday to avoid the sweep after scoring just three runs combined in the previous two games. The win brought their record to 5-5 over the last 10 games which for the Cards would be considered a slump. They take on the Diamondbacks who are fresh off of a long 10 game road trip that saw them go 6-4 and swept the Reds to come into this game on a four game win streak. The Cardinals took all three of the meetings earlier this season in St. Louis and have won nine of the last ten. However, there are some reasons to like the Diamondbacks in this spot. Arizona’s active roster has had some success against Lance Lynn hitting a lifetime .286 over 69 plate appearances. The Cardinals have struggled all season against left-handed pitching ranking near the bottom of the league in most batting statistics. We don’t normally like backing a team in their first after a long road trip, but we’re going to make an exception here.
Take the Arizona Diamondbacks +117 at GTBets
