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Cardinals are 28-19 after winning 4 of their last 5 games, while the Pirates are 24-24 after losing 5 of their last 6 games, including the last 4. Cardinals will start McGreevy, who is 3-2 with a 2.10 ERA, and he allowed only 2 runs in his last 4 starts over 24 innings of work. On the other side, the Pirates will start Mlodzinski, who is 3-3 with a 4.40 ERA, and he has been really poor of late, allowing at least 5 runs in 3 of his last 4 starts. They already played 5 times head-to-head this season, and the Cardinals won all 5 of those games while averaging 7.8 runs scored per game in those wins, so got to expect the Cardinals to have the pitching advantage in this one and win it too.

Both of these two teams are excellent as the Dodgers are 30-19 after winning 6 of their last 7 games, while the Padres are 29-19 after winning 4 of their last 5. Dodgers will start the phenomenal Ohtani, who is 3-2 with an incredible 0.82 ERA, while the Padres will start Vasquez, who is 5-1 with a 2.68 ERA, but he allowed at least 3 runs in 3 of his last 6 starts. Dodgers as a team allowed only 10 runs in their last 7 games, and they scored 18 more runs than the Padres during that same stretch, while the Padres allowed double the runs in that same period. Dodgers won 9 of their 13 head-to-head meetings last season, so got to feel like the Dodgers have been on a slightly higher level lately, and with Ohtani taking the mound, simply got to like the visitors to win.