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Cardinals, Rockies End Series On ESPN
The St. Louis Cardinals are enjoying their time away from division-rival Milwaukee as they finish a weekend home series versus the Colorado Rockies.
ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball will have the first pitch from Busch Stadium at 5:05 p.m. (PT). The pitching matchup is Edwin Jackson against Colorado’s Esmil Rogers.
The Cardinals (64-55) are 2-4 against Milwaukee during August and 5-0 against everyone else. They trail the red-hot Brewers by four games in the NL Central.
Friday’s opener with Colorado was a 6-1 victory behind Kyle Lohse (one earned run over 6 1/3 innings). The Saturday night game is still pending with St. Louis a big 180 favorite. Jaime Garcia was matched up against Jason Hammel.
Jackson (8-8, 4.07 ERA) has made three starts since being acquired from the White Sox at the trade deadline. The one road tilt was at Milwaukee on August 3, getting rung up for four homers and eight earned runs in a 10-5 loss.
The two home outings against the Cubs and Brewers were both quality starts, three total earned runs over 13 innings (2.08 ERA). The Cardinals beat the Cubs (9-2) in his team debut on July 29, but lost (5-3) to Milwaukee last Wednesday.
Jackson has a 2.67 ERA in 11 combined home starts this year.
The 27-year-old right-hander is still young with quality stuff, but he’s already on his seventh MLB team as management gets frustrated with the lifetime 56-59 pitcher (4.54 ERA).
Jackson has experience versus Colorado with his multiple NL stints, but it hasn’t been pretty. He’s 0-2 with a 17.28 ERA in five lifetime starts. The good news is that just one was since 2005, a 12-1 drubbing last year in hitting-happy Coors Field.
The Rockies (55-65) are playing out the string at this point, way behind both Arizona and San Francisco in the NL West. They’re 4-9 since the trade of ace Ubaldo Jimenez to Cleveland for prospects.
Rogers (6-1, 5.85 ERA) opened the season as the fifth starter, but made just five appearances (7.66 ERA) before straining his lat muscle and missing almost three months.
He returned on July 25, coming out of the bullpen before moving into the rotation after the Jimenez deal. He started the last two games, allowing a combined three earned runs over 11 2/3 innings (2.32 ERA) in wins over Washington and Cincinnati.
The 25-year-old right-hander from the Dominican is 5-0 with a 3.86 ERA on the road this year (four starts).
Rogers’ two lifetime appearances against St. Louis came last year (0-1, 6.00 ERA). He started at Busch in the season finale, allowing two earned runs over four innings in a 6-1 loss.
This is the second series between the teams this year, with St. Louis taking two of three at Colorado in May.
St. Louis has won five straight against Colorado at home, going 4-0 last year. The ‘under’ is 6-0 in the last six meetings in St. Louis.
Colorado is the worst hitting road team in the NL (3.48 runs per game). The ‘under’ is 4-0 in its last four road games, scoring seven total runs.
The Rockies haven’t been that bad away (27-34, -6.9 units), although they are 2-9 in their last 11 road games against a winning team. The real killer has been their 28-31 home mark (-16.1 units) after going 52-39 last year.
St. Louis is a pedestrian 31-26 at home (-5.0 units). That needs to improve down the stretch.
Chad Fairchild will call balls and strikes. The ‘over’ is 4-0 in his last four games behind the plate.
Weather should be clear and in the upper 70s. St. Louis starts a 6-game road trip in Pittsburgh on Monday, while Colorado begins a 9-game homestand with Florida.
The St. Louis Cardinals are enjoying their time away from division-rival Milwaukee as they finish a weekend home series versus the Colorado Rockies.
ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball will have the first pitch from Busch Stadium at 5:05 p.m. (PT). The pitching matchup is Edwin Jackson against Colorado’s Esmil Rogers.
The Cardinals (64-55) are 2-4 against Milwaukee during August and 5-0 against everyone else. They trail the red-hot Brewers by four games in the NL Central.
Friday’s opener with Colorado was a 6-1 victory behind Kyle Lohse (one earned run over 6 1/3 innings). The Saturday night game is still pending with St. Louis a big 180 favorite. Jaime Garcia was matched up against Jason Hammel.
Jackson (8-8, 4.07 ERA) has made three starts since being acquired from the White Sox at the trade deadline. The one road tilt was at Milwaukee on August 3, getting rung up for four homers and eight earned runs in a 10-5 loss.
The two home outings against the Cubs and Brewers were both quality starts, three total earned runs over 13 innings (2.08 ERA). The Cardinals beat the Cubs (9-2) in his team debut on July 29, but lost (5-3) to Milwaukee last Wednesday.
Jackson has a 2.67 ERA in 11 combined home starts this year.
The 27-year-old right-hander is still young with quality stuff, but he’s already on his seventh MLB team as management gets frustrated with the lifetime 56-59 pitcher (4.54 ERA).
Jackson has experience versus Colorado with his multiple NL stints, but it hasn’t been pretty. He’s 0-2 with a 17.28 ERA in five lifetime starts. The good news is that just one was since 2005, a 12-1 drubbing last year in hitting-happy Coors Field.
The Rockies (55-65) are playing out the string at this point, way behind both Arizona and San Francisco in the NL West. They’re 4-9 since the trade of ace Ubaldo Jimenez to Cleveland for prospects.
Rogers (6-1, 5.85 ERA) opened the season as the fifth starter, but made just five appearances (7.66 ERA) before straining his lat muscle and missing almost three months.
He returned on July 25, coming out of the bullpen before moving into the rotation after the Jimenez deal. He started the last two games, allowing a combined three earned runs over 11 2/3 innings (2.32 ERA) in wins over Washington and Cincinnati.
The 25-year-old right-hander from the Dominican is 5-0 with a 3.86 ERA on the road this year (four starts).
Rogers’ two lifetime appearances against St. Louis came last year (0-1, 6.00 ERA). He started at Busch in the season finale, allowing two earned runs over four innings in a 6-1 loss.
This is the second series between the teams this year, with St. Louis taking two of three at Colorado in May.
St. Louis has won five straight against Colorado at home, going 4-0 last year. The ‘under’ is 6-0 in the last six meetings in St. Louis.
Colorado is the worst hitting road team in the NL (3.48 runs per game). The ‘under’ is 4-0 in its last four road games, scoring seven total runs.
The Rockies haven’t been that bad away (27-34, -6.9 units), although they are 2-9 in their last 11 road games against a winning team. The real killer has been their 28-31 home mark (-16.1 units) after going 52-39 last year.
St. Louis is a pedestrian 31-26 at home (-5.0 units). That needs to improve down the stretch.
Chad Fairchild will call balls and strikes. The ‘over’ is 4-0 in his last four games behind the plate.
Weather should be clear and in the upper 70s. St. Louis starts a 6-game road trip in Pittsburgh on Monday, while Colorado begins a 9-game homestand with Florida.
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