The Dodgers have won 15 straight home games, the longest streak for the franchise since 1899. The Cardinals have won 11 straight road games.
St. Louis had a 17-game winning streak that just ended last week. Since the start of said streak, the Cardinals are 19-3. The Dodgers during that stretch are 17-3.
The Dodgers and Cardinals are both red hot. One of their season’s will end on Wednesday night.
What a wonderful preview this is. Two awesome teams in a winner takes it all game battle in which Dodgers are -225 favourites makes it typically impossible for handicapping.
Starting pitchers:
CARDINALS: RH Adam Wainwright (17-7, 3.05 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 7.6 Ks per 9 IP)
DODGERS: RH Max Scherzer (15-4, 2.46 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, 11.8 Ks per 9 IP)
Two veteran pitchers will start the game in Los Angeles. The Cardinals have won 13 of Adam Wainwright’s last 14 starts. The 40-year-old right-hander has posted a 2.28 ERA with six home runs allowed in 94 ²/₃ innings in this span with just over 1.7 walks per nine innings allowed.
The Dodgers counter with Max Scherzer, 37, who has been the contributor the team was hoping for since acquiring him from the Washington Nationals. The Dodgers are 11-0 in his starts with Scherzer posting a 1.98 ERA with 1.1 walks per nine innings allowed.
Scherzer has allowed two runs or fewer in nine of his 11 starts with Los Angeles, but the outliers are his most recent two starts, when he allowed 10 earned runs across 10 ¹/₃ innings.
Prediction: St Louis Cardinals ML