The Cardinals are delighted by the performance on Monday of Pujol and they hope it may begin a streak of hitting for him. At the same time the Padres are looking for their Start at first to correct the problems he has had playing at home and that he will break out of the slump on this road trip.

The Padres record is 13-9 this 2010 season at home while the Cardinals are at almost an even 11-12 while playing away and on the road. With that said, it appears that the Twins and the Yankees have an equal chance of winning this matchup. Will this have a positive effect on the MLB Betting lines or MLB odds for this series game?
The Cardinals and the Padres Stats:
The Cardinals are: 26-20 SU
The Padres are: 27-18 SU
The Padres lately:
While playing Wednesday’s they are 6-4
Before they played the Padres they were 9-1
After they played the Padres they are 8-2
After their last loss they are 6-4

The Padres lately:
While playing Wednesday’s they are 3-7
Before they played the Cardinals they were 2-8
After they played the Cardinals they are 4-6
After their last win they are 5-5
The Next Game is:
The Padres at home vs. the Cardinals, on Thursday, May 27
MLB Odds Makers have the lines at present for the CARDINALS at -1 ½ (+145) and the PADRES at +1 ½ (-165) and the Total – Over 6 ½ (-120) and under 6 ½ (EV) and the CARDINALS are -115 and the PADRES are +105 on the Money Line.

The Mets (2-5), unfortunately find themselves in familiar territory so far this year: last in the NL East. Last year was a baseball betting aberration, or so the Met’s faithful hoped. After being absolutely depleted by injuries it was no wonder that the team finished near the bottom of the NL betting competition. But this MLB betting season was supposed to be different.

With a healthy roster, ace Johan Santana finally in good form and host of free agent bats meant to bolster the team’s meager run production in the 2010 MLB odds action, this was going to be the year the team got back into MLB playoff betting contention. But it hasn’t happened yet and the team’s baseball postseason betting hopes won’t get any help facing a dominating Cardinal staff and stacked lineup.

The Cards (5-2) starting pitching has been among the best in the NL betting action so far this year. Ace Adam Wainright has been all but unhittable (2-0, 1.20 ERA, 13 Ks) and his fellow starters haven’t been bad either. But the Card’s have the luxury of having an off night as well, as Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday have been blasting opposing pitchers so far this MLB betting season (8 HRs and 20 RBIs between the two of them through 7 baseball betting games).

Depending on the pitching matchups the Cards will win at least 2 of the 3 games in this MLB odds series and could even sweep.

The St. Louis Cardinals (5-2) have been dominating opponents so far in the young 2010 MLB betting season. The team started the year with a 4-2 road record before opening up the baseball betting action at Busch Stadium.

The New York Mets (2-5) have done just the opposite of the Red Birds in the 2010 betting odds action. This team has been a bit of a disappointment after stocking up on free agent bats in the baseball betting off season and getting its pitching staff more or less healthy. When the team heads to St Louis it will definitely have its work cut out for it and no baseball odds maker is going to give the team much of a chance in the game. Unless ace Johan Santana is pitching.

And this is a real possibility. Santana, the Cy Young winner, will either pitch the opening night of this 3-game baseball betting series on Friday, or he’ll pitch in this game. If that were to happen the Mets’ MLB odds of winning this game would increase tremendously. Santana only has one win this season and his ERA of 4.91 in 11 innings of work is hardly impressive but he’ll be ready to pitch in this series.

The Cards just might have their ace, Adam Wainright, on the mound which would turn this MLB odds matchup into a pitching duel between two of the best in the NL. Regardless of the teams’ records, that pitching matchup would make this a very interesting baseball betting proposition.

Still, the Cards offense is far superior to the Mets and it would take a near perfect performance by Santana to win this MLB betting matchup.

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.

The Cards were all but written in as the 2009 World Series champs at the beginning of the playoffs only to lose in the first round. The team has had plenty of time to sit and stew about what might have been in the baseball betting last year and they’ll bring that with them into the 2010 MLB odds action.

The main reason why the Cards were so highly favored last year and finished with such a stellar record (91-71, NL Central champs) was because of the team’s embarrassing riches in the pitching rotation. During last year’s baseball betting the top three in the Cards rotation accounted for an astounding 51 MLB odds victories, averaging 17 wins apiece. Adam Wainright, Chris Carpenter and Joel Pinero lit up opponents all year long and Wainright and Carpenter were even short listed for the NL Cy Young Award.

All three will be back this season and looking to improve upon their lofty 2009 stats. That will be tough considering the Wainright racked up 19 wins, 212 Ks with a 2.63 ERA and Carpenter led the team with a 2.24 ERA and a stellar 17-4 record. Former Cy Young winner Mark Mulder is also back in the mix this season and if he can duplicate any of his past success this unit will once again make the Cards one of the World Series favorites.