The Cardinals (10-17) have struggled on their recent West Coast road trip, dropping two of three to Seattle and three of four to the Giants before falling 7-3 in the opener of the weekend set at the Dodgers. L.A. picked up the much needed win on Friday after dropping two of three to the 1st place Pirates, and are the favorites to pick up game two vs. St. Louis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Cardinals are scoring a decent amount of runs with 3+ in six of the last seven, but their pitching has fallen into an abyss while allowing at least 4+ runs in 11 of their last 13. The Cardinals now have the #22 ranked ERA in all of baseball (4.49 ERA) and their 1.45 WHIP doesn’t do much to impress either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dodgers offense should be licking their chops at the opportunity to tee off on the Cardiinals pitching again, and they scored six runs off an efficient 9 hits in Friday’s contest. Mookie Betts<\/strong> went yard<\/a> and Freddie Freeman added 3 hits as Los Angeles remained within a game of Arizona in the NL West. <\/p>\n\n\n\n