Kevin's Pick(s):
The Royals wrapped up the ALCS with a sweep yesterday afternoon to stay undefeated in the postseason, while the Giants went up 3-1 in the NLCS and have a chance to win it infront of their home crowd tonight. No system pick from me but Kyle looks for another winner.
Kyle's Pick(s)
2 UNIT = St. Louis Cardinals @ San Francisco Giants - UNDER 6.5 RUNS (-115)
Listed Pitchers: Wainwright vs. Bumgarner
(Note: I'm risking 2.00 units to win 1.74 units)
Entertaining couple of games yesterday, with the Royals clinching their first trip to the World Series since 1985. Then in the night game the Giants came from behind to win to take a 3-1 series heading into today. The Giants look to join the Royals and pop some champagne bottles behind Bumgarner in this critical matchup.
This is a duplicate pitching matchup of game 1 in this series. Madison Bumgarner was completely locked in then, holding the Cardinals down to 4 hits and no runs scored. In fact, Bumgarner has been locked in all postseason, he enters tonight with an ERA of 0.76 coupled with a 0.72 WHIP. The Cards have had plenty of issues hitting left-handed pitching, hitting only .164 against in their last 5 starts. Bumgarner is a big reason for that number, and all indications are that he is going to rip through them once again. Adam Wainwright will look for some redemption after getting credited for 2 runs against in the last game. In a playoff setting, yeah, 2 runs against for Wainwright is too much. From a pitcher of his level you expect something like Bumgarner has been doing. But still, other than that one start against the Dodgers, allowing 6, Wainwright has allowed only 4 runs in five of his last six games. I am expecting another low scoring contest, with Wainwright and Bumgarner dueling in San Francisco. In my opinion I think you can flip a coin on the winner of this game, but on the total I see a winner on the UNDER 6.5.
Cheers,
Kevin
