MLB - Cleveland v St. Louis

14 June 2009

Preview By Tipster Jumbo (New Zealand)

Sunday Night baseball and we see the Cardinals who have found their winning touch again in their last 4 game with wins in 3 face off against the Indians with another two great starters on the mound for either side.

The Indians are looking for Cliff Lee 3-6 with an era of 3.17 to carry on where he has left off in his last two starts,the Indians behind Lee have won his last two starts against the Royals 8-4 and Twins 10-1 but did lose Lees start 3 games ago 1-3 against the Yankees.... Career wise and Lee has only had one start against the Cardinals in which the Indians went great winning 10-3,Lee went 6 innings giving up 2 earned on 8 hits with 2 walks to give him numbers in that lone start against them of 1-0 with an era of 3.00.

The Cardinals send Chris Carpenter 4-0 with an era of 1.23 their ace to the mound to counter Lee, The Cards lost Carpenters last start against the Marlins 3-4 but won his previous two starts against the Reds 3-1 and Giants 6-2 to give Carpenter numbers of 2-0 with an era of 2.57..Career wise and Carpenter has faced the Indians in 7 starts and they are a side who he struggles against ,In 7 starts Carpenter is 2-2 with an era of 5.96,He has given up 30 earned on 58 hits in 45 innings of work...Carpenter in his last 5 starts against the Indians has a win loss record going and is due a loss here,he has taken 3 ND's and 2 Wins in those most recent last 5 starts.

The Cardinals have won only 3 of their last 10 against the Indians and in the last 10 5 have been over this total,In Cleveland and the Cards have won only 2 of their last 5 there and the total has been over 7.5 in 3 of those matches.

The Cardinals are 12-8 on the season against left handed starters while the Indians are 22-30 against right handed starters on the season.

I fancy the cards behind Carpenter to get up here but the form of Lee has me worried,this total is not to big and the Cards have always struggled in Inter League play and against this Indians side,they are hitting though and should be good for a few runs,but I also think that the Indians will be in that frame of mind to and should knock in a couple,alot of this bet will depend on luck as most bets do,I find it to risky to go for the Cards to win this game and I think the Total as it is so low should be the way to go..Lees lone start went over 7.5 runs while in Carpenters last 5 starts against the Indians only one has fallen under 7.5 runs....Looks good....Good Luck.