The St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds meet Wednesday in MLB action from Great American Ball Park. Here’s a Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals prediction. This will be the final installment in a three-game series. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best bets for the games.
St. Louis Cardinals Betting Preview
The Cardinals played a couple of games versus the Chicago Cubs over the weekend. St. Louis managed to win both of those 7-6 and 4-3. On Monday in the opener versus the Reds, the Cardinals lost 3-1. In game two St. Louis struck back with a 7-1 victory. Kyle Gibson posted 6.0 innings in the start with one earned on two hits and two walks.
Andre Pallante will take the mound for the Cardinals in the start on Wednesday. This year Pallante is 0-1 with a 6.30 ERA and six strikeouts.
Cincinnati Reds Betting Preview
Over on the Reds’ side, they took on the Los Angeles Dodgers in their last series. Cincinnati managed a three-game sweep in that set with wins 9-6, 3-1 and 4-1. After their Monday win, in the Tuesday game the Reds gave up 13 hits in the defeat. Starter Andrew Abbott had a rough night with 6.0 innings, six earned, seven hits and two walks.
It’ll be Frankie Montas in the starting pitcher role for the Reds on Wednesday. Across his nine starts this year Montas is 2-3 with a 4.61 ERA and 28 Ks in 41.0 innings total. Montas is 39-38 with a 3.94 ERA in 139 career games (108 starts).
Cardinals vs Reds Injury Notes
Cardinals SP Steven Matz (back) is scheduled to throw a light bullpen session on Wednesday.
Reds CF TJ Friedl (thumb) could return to the field late this week or early next week.
Total Runs Facts
- Nine of the Reds’ last 10 day games against NL Central opponents have gone UNDER the total runs line.
- Seven of the Cardinals’ last eight day games against NL Central opponents have gone UNDER the total runs line.
- The ‘Inning 1 OVER 0.5 runs’ market has hit in each of the Cardinals’ last eight Wednesday day games against NL Central opponents.
Cincinnati Reds Player Prop Facts
- TJ Friedl has hit a home run in each of his last four home appearances against NL Central opponents.
- TJ Friedl has recorded at least one RBI in each of his last four home appearances against NL Central opponents.
- Jeimer Candelario has recorded at least one hit in each of his last nine appearances in day games against teams that held a losing record.
- Jeimer Candelario has recorded a Double in three of his last four appearances against the Cardinals after playing the previous day.
- TJ Friedl has recorded at least one Single in each of his last eight Wednesday appearances against teams that held a losing record.
- Frankie Montas has recorded four or more strikeouts in seven of his last eight home appearances against NL opponents.
- Jonathan India has scored at least one run in each of his last six appearances in day games against NL Central teams that held a losing record.
- Jeimer Candelario has recorded two or more total bases in each of the Reds’ last seven games against opponents that held a losing record.
St. Louis Cardinals Player Prop Facts
- Willson Contreras has recorded at least one total base in each of his last nine road appearances against NL opponents.
- Willson Contreras has scored at least one run in each of his last seven appearances against opponents that held a losing record.
- Willson Contreras has hit a home run in each of his last two road appearances against the Reds.
- Paul Goldschmidt has recorded at least one RBI in four of the Cardinals’ last five games against NL Central opponents.
- Willson Contreras has recorded at least one hit in each of his last nine road appearances against NL opponents.
- Willson Contreras has recorded a Double in four of his last five appearances in day games against NL teams that held a losing record.
- Alec Burleson has recorded at least one Single in 11 of the Cardinals’ last 12 games.
Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals Prediction
I’ll probably stay with the Reds. Probably not touching this one, though. Montas has had some mixed results over his last three starts (with no decision in any of them). In that trio Montas has 11 earned runs combined in 15.2 innings with 20 hits and five walks. He’ll probably need a quality start here to give the Reds a fighting chance.
On Tuesday Cincinnati wasn’t doing terribly until the seventh inning when they gave up three runs and essentially put the game out of reach. The major issue was on offense, as the Reds’ four hits had no hope of competing. The bats need to wake up Wednesday.