Mets Vs. Cardinals: A Close MLB Wild Card Game Preview

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00:00It is a virtual pick them as well. Sean Mania gets the start

00:07for the Amazings. Minus 112. The Mets an ever so slight favorite

00:11in St. Louis. Nine is the total. The Mets lost their weekend

00:16set dropping their last two games against the Angels. St.

00:20Louis lost three of four losing its weekend outing against

00:25Chicago. Two teams in National League wildcard contention that

00:28are just trying to keep pace with the Diamondbacks and the

00:31Padres at this moment who gets a much-needed victory today

00:34under the arch. Should be a pretty even game here, but it

00:37might be leaning a little bit towards the underdog. Now,

00:39typically that's never a good thing. We have Sunday night

00:42baseball where a team was playing on the road and they

00:44got to come back home and it's not necessarily, you know,

00:46playing that 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock at night 515 Eastern

00:50start here. So a little bit of a travel delay for St. Louis,

00:53but one of those pictures Andre Pallante that's on the mountain

00:56Take a look at his last 60 days been an 81 XFIT minus which

00:59is good enough for fourth on the card today. ERA 3.12, XFIT

01:023.29. So very manageable numbers. Now, I do like that

01:06offense here for the Mets the way it presents against

01:08right-handed pitching. But if we are looking at some other

01:10numbers on Pallante, ISO power number 132 weighted on base

01:14percentage 285 through his last 72 batters. He's really been

01:17doing well. So I think I have a slight pitching advantage

01:19tonight with Pallante taking a look at over Sean Minaya.

01:23But if we are saying, okay, have the St. Louis Cardinals

01:25present against Minaya, when I was a left-handed pitcher,

01:27he's actually done decent against right-handed batters,

01:30which again, the majority of the batters in this lineup will

01:32be from the right side. The only lefties Burleson Donovan

01:35and Newport will actually have really bad numbers against

01:37left-handed pitching. It's one of those where you say to yourself

01:40single game. It's not a series. It's a drop in St. Louis played

01:44last night, maybe looking more towards the under but I've had

01:46to go with the side. I probably would take St. Louis at home

01:49as the slight dog price because I do think they have the

01:51better picture on the mound today.

01:55Yeah.