{"id":5928,"date":"2009-10-06T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/free-pick-cardinals-dodgers-playoffs-game-1\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:29:00","slug":"free-pick-cardinals-dodgers-playoffs-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/free-pick-cardinals-dodgers-playoffs-game-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Pick: Cardinals-Dodgers Playoffs Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today’s free pick comes from handicapper Matt Rivers<\/span><\/font><\/a>. He says go with the St. Louis Cardinals -137 at BetUs Sportsbook<\/span><\/font><\/a> against the LA Dodgers. Here is why: <\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

 
It’s tough to lay anything on the road in any sport and baseball included but to get arguably the best hurler on the planet in Chris Carpenter and the best player on that same planet in Albert Pujols<\/span> along with a total stud in Matt Holliday makes me feel ok in backing the Cardinals today.
 
Let’s face it, Randy Wolf had a great season and is a quality lefty but he is no Carpenter as the <\/span><\/font>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> righthander<\/span> is an absolute beast and I mean beast. Wolf better be at his best because anything less than 7 or 8 innings and a run or two is almost unheard of for Carpenter. Plus the Cards can bash from the right side and do not at all mind facing a Southpaw today.
 
Joe Torre’s<\/span> Dodgers limped into the postseason a bit as they almost blew the division late. The Redbirds don’t exactly come into this thing firing away on all cylinders themselves but all in all I do believe that St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is the better overall club with the far superior hurler.
 
Jonathan Broxton and the blue probably do boast the better bullpen, I’ll give them that, but down the stretch the LA closer has looked a little tired and therefore we are not looking at a mismatch as Ryan Franklin has had success this season.
 
Manny Ramirez has another gear which can be scary for sure and Ethier<\/span> and Kemp and a few others certainly are extremely legit but once again if you want to give me Carpenter and Pujols<\/span> and Holliday and lay a small number, nothing too crazy, then I’ll make a small play on these visitors and expect a Carpenter gem and a 5-2 type of a victory.<\/p>\n

The pick: <\/span><\/font>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><\/p>\n

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Today’s free pick comes from handicapper Matt Rivers. He says go with the St. Louis Cardinals -137 at BetUs Sportsbook against the LA Dodgers. Here is why:   It’s tough to lay anything on the road in any sport and baseball included but to get arguably the best hurler on the planet in Chris Carpenter … Continue reading Free Pick: Cardinals-Dodgers Playoffs Game 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}