Cardinals starting pitcher Jaime Garcia is 9-4 with a 2.21 ERA in 19 starts this season and has given up just 97 hits in 110 innings of work.\u00a0 The left-hander has led the team to two consecutive home victories over the Dodgers and Phillies, giving up three runs and 12 hits over 10.1 innings.\u00a0 He is 5-3 with a 2.96 ERA in 10 road outings.\u00a0 In four July starts, Garcia stands a perfect 2-0 with a 1.99 ERA, surrendering just a single home run in 22.2 frames.\u00a0 He will be making just his second career start against the Mets, tossing seven innings of one-hit ball at Busch Stadium on April 17, but the team fell 2-1.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n New York came back from its dismal 2-9 road trip and managed to score over six runs for the first time since July 4.\u00a0 \u201cOur time will come as a team,\u201d said outfielder Carlos Beltran.\u00a0 The Mets are 31-16 overall at home (+1,260) and have won 17 of their last 24 games at Citi Field.\u00a0 The pitching staff has posted a 3.15 ERA over its last 16 games, which ranks third in the majors over that span, but the club has managed to produce a lowly 5-12 record over that stretch.\u00a0 New York is 5-10 when playing a team with a winning record in the second half of the season and the total stands at 4-10 O\/U in those contests.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mets starting pitcher Johan Santana is 8-5 with a 2.79 ERA in 21 starts this year and has led the team to four consecutive victories. \u00a0 Over that span, he has allowed just two runs and 21 hits over 31 innings of work.\u00a0 He has compiled a solid 6-3 mark and 2.81 ERA in 10 home starts, giving up just a single home run in 67.1 frames.\u00a0 The left-hander is 14-6 with a 2.81 ERA in 24 career games at Citi Field.\u00a0 He received a no-decision on April 17 versus the Cardinals in St. Louis, going seven shutout innings in the Mets\u2019 2-1, 20-inning victory.\u00a0 Santana struck out a season-high nine and allowed just four hits in that contest.\u00a0 In four career starts against the Redbirds, he is a perfect 2-0 with a 2.03 ERA.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bettors will need to focus in on both teams record with the total being 7 or less.\u00a0 St. Louis is currently 5-7 on the road in this situation (-410), while New York stands at a dominating 7-1 at home in 2010 (+590).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pair of dominating left-handers take center stage in the Big Apple on ESPN. St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets St. Louis is set to play the second game of this three game series this evening, as part of a six-game, seven-day road trip.\u00a0 The Cardinals fell 8-2 in defeat on Tuesday evening at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1736,1492,1754,42,43,841],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-citi-field","tag-espn","tag-jaime-garcia","tag-johan-santana","tag-new-york-mets","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","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=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/johan-santana-mets-92-150x150.jpg\")
St. Louis is set to play the second game of this three game series this evening, as part of a six-game, seven-day road trip.\u00a0 The Cardinals fell 8-2 in defeat on Tuesday evening at Citi Field and the team is now 8-4 since the All-Star break.\u00a0 The club is batting .294 and averaging 6.0 runs per game in its 55 wins, while hitting just .223 and scoring 2.5 runs a game in 45 losses.\u00a0 Surprisingly, the team picked up a loss with starting pitcher Adam Wainwright on the hill, as they are 40-23 in games involving the right-hander, Chris Carpenter and tonight\u2019s starter.\u00a0 It was the fifth time in 11 road starts this season that the Cards have scored no runs or one run while Wainwright was in the game.\u00a0 The lineup went 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position and stranded 10 runners on the night.\u00a0 St. Louis has posted a 2-3 mark as a road underdog of +100 to +125 this season (-90) and an even 29-29 the last three years (+250).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n