St. Louis at Los Angeles

Chris Carpenter has become something special since arriving in St. Louis, and his track record on the road has been brilliant with the Cards at 28-16 in his last 44 road starts. The Cards have been a scorching hot team, winners of eight of their last nine, and have not failed to score less than four runs in any of them. That certainly makes Chris Carpenter look good in this one, because if the Cards give him four runs, he is a pretty good bet to deliver a win. The Dodgers have struggled and are just 9-14 in their last 23 games and three of those losses were pinned on them in St. Louis. They will go with a rookie pitcher that is making his '09 debut, but has failed in a few attempts at the big league level. That’s not the option you want against a hot-hitting Cards team. The Dodgers have gone cold, scoring two or less in half of their last eight games. I'm going with St. Louis in this one.