Cincinnati Reds vs St Louis Cardinals 7/16/2022 Picks Predictions

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The Cincinnati Reds will go against the St. Louis Cardinals in MLB action in Busch Stadium, MO, on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at 2:15 PM ET.

After a disastrous start to 2022, when the team cleaned house in the winter, losing their best starting pitcher and the bulk of their power, the Cincinnati Reds continued to progress before baseball’s eyes.

The Reds are returning from a series with the New York Yankees in which they took two out of three matches and lost the other game by a run in 10 innings, so don’t look now, but they were a respectable club since May.

The squad entered the month of July at 8-6 going into this series after being over.500 in May, and having a difficult time in June.

The Reds pitchers walked 8 Cardinals over the first seven innings on Friday, which proved their demise to the Cards in the first game of the series.

This month, the struggling Reds performed admirably. Before the game on Friday night, Cincnnati had an ERA of 3.73 and were two matches over .500.

In their 14 games of the month, they pitched 130.1 innings and gave up just 120 hits. Lefty Nick Lodolo will take the mound.

Lodolo made five appearances this season and improved throughout the campaign. He made two starts in July, going 1-0 with a 2.79 ERA and has the highest K/9 ratio among Reds starts but on a lesser scale with 12.2.

The total went OVER in 4 of Cincinnati’s previous 5 matches.
The Reds are 6-2 SU in their previous 8 matches.
Cincinnati is 2-7 SU in their last 9 games against St. Louis.

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Cincinnati Reds vs St Louis Cardinals Predictions 7/16/2022

The Cardinals are hoping to finish the first half of the season on a high note against the last-place Reds. Recently, the Cardinals struggled to put victories together, going only 4-8 in their previous 12 games going into Friday’s opening game of the series.

With this 10-game homestand, the Cardinals had high expectations for a great finish to the first half; but their first seven home games saw them get shut out three times.

Brendon Donovan helped the Cardinals get their 49th victory and halt a two-game losing streak by single-homing two runs as part of his three RBI performance, Friday night.

In their previous 12 matches, the Cardinals batted just.233 and were shut out three times. Over that time, the club averaged 2.5 runs per game.

With a team batting average of 250, the Cardinals are eighth in baseball for the year. With 4.5 runs scored per game, they are thirteenth.

In the encounter on Saturday, the Cardinals will look to Milos Mikolas in the hopes of securing a victory before the first half is up. With 12 solid starts out of his 18 this year, Mikolas leads the staff.

The total went UNDER in 10 of St. Louis’ last 13 matches.
The Cardinals are 4-2 SU in their previous 6 matches.
The total went UNDER in 7 of St. Louis’ last 10 matches at home.

Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals. The MLB pick for this game is the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals hit left-handers fairly effectively this season, despite being slowed down in their opening game against Lodolo.

The group is striking out. 16 home runs were hit against left-handed pitching in 259 at-bats. The power right-handed bats of Nolan Arendado, Paul Goldschmidt, and even the seasoned Albert Pujols will be used, which could help the youngster.

The Reds recently played really well, yet they have baseball’s sixth-highest strikeout ratio. Mikolas ought to be able to produce a significant number of strikeouts against the Reds’ free-swinging offense.

The St. Louis Cardinals will win by a predicted score of 5-2.

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