Guardians vs Cardinals Prediction and Betting Preview | June 27
Friday’s Guardians vs Cardinals contest features a pair of teams that were shut-out on Thursday. Which offense will find some life in this interleague series? The GoldSheet team offers its thoughts on tonight’s clash in Cleveland.
Guardians vs Cardinals Betting Preview
| Time | 7:10pm ET / 4:10pm PT |
| Stadium | Progressive Field in Cleveland |
| Weather | Warm with 10mph Winds Blowing Out to Right-Center |
| MoneyLine | St Louis -120 / Cleveland EV |
| Total | 8.5 Runs (o -115 / u -105) |
| RunLine | St Louis -1.5 (+135) / Cleveland +1.5 (-160) |
St Louis Cardinals
The Cardinals are in the midst of a brutal stretch of playing 15 games in 14 days. St Louis does not have a scheduled day off until July 3, and some of that attrition was evident over the last two days against the Cubs. The Cardinals were shut-out at home in back-to-back games, generating four hits on Wednesday and three hits on Thursday.
Busch Stadium traditionally plays as a pitcher-friendly park, but the Cardinals’ lineup has developed a pretty notable home vs road split this season. St Louis is hitting .265 at home (No. 5 in MLB) with a .332 on-base percentage (No. 8) and a 112 wRC+ (No. 11). It’s been a different story on the road as the Cardinals are hitting .241 (No. 14) with a 94 wRC+ (No. 19) away from Busch Stadium.
We mentioned that Busch Stadium tends to be a pitcher-friendly park, and Sonny Gray has taken full advantage of that. He is 5-1 with a 2.76 ERA at home, compared to 2-1 with a 5.88 ERA on the road. In his last road start against the Brewers, he allowed six runs on eight hits in 4.1 innings.
Cleveland Guardians
We’re expecting to see a focused and motivated effort out of the Guardians on Friday after their series with Toronto went off the rails. Cleveland’s pitchers hit Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on back-to-back days, and the Blue Jays’ retaliated by hitting José Ramírez on Thursday.
Keep an eye on his status because Ramirez is such a big part of the Guardians’ lineup, but manager Stephen Vogt made it pretty clear that he would have his team’s attention after Cleveland committed four errors on Thursday.
Cleveland’s Luis L. Ortiz has enjoyed pitching at Progressive Field where he has a 3.00 ERA with a 1.30 WHIP compared to a 5.18 ERA with a 1.48 WHIP on the road. Ortiz is coming off a fantastic outing against the Athletics where he did not allow a run and struck out ten in 6.0 innings.
Guardians vs Cardinals Prediction
The Cardinals are 3-11 on the road against right-hand starting pitchers this season.
CLEVELAND GUARDIANS +100 ML
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