The Houston Astros have come to wrong place to try and pick up their first MLB betting win of the 2010 season. Houston in St Louis for a 3-game baseball betting series against the red hot Cardinals and they could not have picked a worse team to face in the MLB odds right now.

St Louis has rushed out to an impressive 5-2 record in the first two weeks of the 2010 MLB betting season. What makes that baseball betting record even more impressive is the fact that the team opening the season with six straight road games and a record of 4-2. Now that team is finally playing in front of the hometown crowd the MLB betting sky is the limit.

In the opening game of the 3-game series the Astros sent their one and only starting pitcher with any talent (Wandy Rodriguez) and he was quickly pounded into submission by the slugging duo of Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday. Rodriguez gave up 4 earned runs in just 4.1 innings and the Astros really never had any shot in this MLB odds matchup. Houston went on to lose this baseball betting game 5-0 thanks to a HR and 4 RBIs from the greatest hitter in the MLB odds at the moment, Pujols.

Sports betting gurus expect more of the same during the second game of the series and the Astros will likely have even less of a shot in the baseball odds considering that they’ll be sending a struggling Brett Myers to the mound to face the big bats of the Cards in this AL Central baseball wagering matchup.

Pujols is an extraordinary hitter in any circumstances, as is Holliday, but when playing at home against a struggling pitcher he takes his game to level that most players in MLB betting can only dream of.

Expect Pujols and Holliday to lead the charge once again in this MLB odds matchup and for both of them to have big nights. This should be a relatively easy, and possibly high scoring, baseball betting win for the Cards.