Pittsburgh at St. Louis

The Pittsburgh Pirates have battered the Cards pitching for 21 runs in the first two games of this series. Here we are opening July with the Pirates a game out of first in the NL Central and St. Louis looking up at them. They turn to the hot-hand in Jake Westbrook to stop the bleeding. Westbrook has pitched four great games in a row, pitching to a 2.67 ERA in the process. The Pirates go with Eric Bedard who won 28 games with the lowly Orioles in 2006 and 2007 but has won just 20 times in the last five years due to ineffectiveness and injuries. Bedard is just 4-8 on a contending team,and just 1-4 in his last five starts pitching to an ERA of 6.56. The Pirates are 42-102 on the road vs. a winning team in their last 144. Play this one on St. Louis.