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<\/a>Boston picked up a 4-2 victory against St. Louis in Game 4 Sunday night\u2014evening the 109th World Series at two games apiece in the best-of-seven series.\u00a0 \u201cEven Steven,\u201d commented Red Sox first baseman.\u00a0 The Red Sox have gone 9-5 during their 2013 MLB playoff run, with five of their wins being of the come-from-behind variety.\u00a0 The club is 48-40 away from Fenway Park since the start of the regular season, including a 4-3 mark during the postseason.\u00a0 Boston is 83-33 in its last 116 interleague games when taking on a right-handed starter.<\/p>\n
Red Sox starting pitcher Jon Lester owns a 2.07 ERA in 10 career postseason starts, including a 3-1 mark and 1.67 ERA in four efforts in 2013.\u00a0 The left-hander has thrown 13.1 scoreless career innings in the Fall Classic, while compiling a 2.12 ERA in six road outings (five starts) during postseason play.\u00a0 Lester\u2019s five career playoff wins are the most ever by a Boston southpaw thrower.<\/p>\n
St. Louis has an overall record of 13-17 in Game 5 action, including a 6-10 mark in World Series play.\u00a0 The Cardinals are trying to secure their 12th title in franchise history, as they played in front of a Busch Stadium-record crowd of 47,459 last night.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will need a big game from outfielder Carlos Beltran, who is 8 for 10 with 12 RBIs with runners in scoring position during this current playoff run.\u00a0 St. Louis is 6-1 in its last seven games as a home favorite of -110 to -150.<\/p>\n
Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright is 4-0 with a 1.07 ERA in eight postseason home games over the course of his career, including a 6-1 clinching win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 5 of the NL Division Series.\u00a0 The right-hander went 9-6 with a 2.53 ERA in 17 home appearances during the regular season, with opposing hitters batting .217 against him.\u00a0 Wainwright suffered an 8-1 road defeat to the Red Sox in the opening game of this series last Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 13-5-2 in the Cardinals\u2019 last 20 games versus southpaw starters.<\/p>\n
Make sure to check out our Major League Baseball picks<\/a> all season long and get the most up-to-date betting odds at Bookmaker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals will meet up in Game 5 of the 2013 World Series Monday night, with the first pitch scheduled for 8:07 p.m. ET on FOX from Busch Stadium Boston Red Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals Boston picked up a 4-2 victory against St. Louis in Game 4 Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[7726,1524,69,6878,326,138,841],"class_list":["post-30967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-2013-world-series","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-david-ortiz","tag-jon-lester","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}