St. Louis Cardinals VS LA Dodgers Game Lines

Sports Betting News - July 30th, 2009 - Written by Ryan Smith

The St. Louis Cardinals stole another victory away from the visiting LA Dodgers last night. That Marks the third consecutive win in a row over the Dodgers who are the National Leagues best team at the moment. The Cardinals have surged since the acquisition of Matt Holliday and these last three wins against the Dodgers are proving just that, The Cardinals have won 5 of the last 7 games since trading for Out fielder Matt Holliday. This series against the Dodgers is a four game series, and the Dodgers last chance to leave with a victory comes tonight as Hiroki Kuroda of the LA Dodgers takes on Kyle Loshe of the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Cardinals are favored to win Thursday nights game yet again at -1.5 runs. Kyle Loshe has had a decent year on the mound in 2009 posting a 4-6 record and an ERA just over 4.0. The Man he is facing off against is Hiroki Kuroda who started the year fine with a record of 3-5 and an ERA over 4.50, but he has recently spent a number of days on the DL. Last nights game was the first time the Dodgers where even close going into the 8th inning and Clayton Kershaw was hoping to pull off the victory, but the game lasted to the 15th inning when finally Albert Pujols hit the game winning single. The first two games in the series the Cardinals won handily by 5 runs or more, so expect to see the same tonight. Though Kuroda and Loshe share the same type of stats, Kuroda has trouble facing right handed batters and the Cardinals are stacked with right handed bats.

The over in this game is 9 at the moment, and 9 is a great number to take the over on. Though only won game out of the three games they have played so far went over 9 runs (Tuesday, Cardinals 10- Dodgers- 0) both pictures starting today have ERA's over 4. Plus the Dodgers and the Cardinals have two of the NL's top five power offenses, so don't be surprised if both Loshe and Kuroda leave pitches over the plate for batters to swing at. Also in a 4 game series like this one, especially when last nights game went into the 15th inning, all of the reliever pitchers where called upon to pitch at some point. The 9 run over is low enough to wager on.

In a game like this however who use USA Online Sportsbooks like to play prop bets. BetED and Bodog have already released a number of prop bets on this game alone. Some of these prop bets are The total number of runs scored by both teams, or the total number of runs, hits and errors by both teams, BetUS has that number at 28, another good bet to take with high offensive teams such as the Cardinals and Dodgers. Other prop bets are who will hit the first home run of the Game, this one is hard to bet on as both teams have power hitters all throughout their line ups. Either way you look at it, this game tonight between the Cardinals and Dodgers is a great opportunity to place bets in all types of different methods. So log on to your online sportsbook provider and start wagering now, If you don't have a sportsbook account check out USA Players and review all of our favorite and most used sportsbooks on the market.

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