St. Louis Cardinals favoured for NLCS Game 3 against Milwaukee Brewers – MLB Update
After splitting the first two games at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the St. Louis Cardinals are favoured to prevail in Game 3 on the National League Championship Series scheduled for Wednesday, October 12 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Brewers overpowered the Cardinals 9-6 in Game 1, but the Redbirds came back strongly in Game 2 to annihilate the Brewers 12-3 and highlight their craving for the pennant. With the series now shifting to St. Louis for the next three games, the Cardinals
are in with a chance to bag the pennant and qualify for the World Series.
After the first two games combined produced 30 runs, the games at Busch Stadium are expected to be low-scoring affairs, with conditions favouring the pitchers. However, Brewers’ manager Ron Roenicke said, "You would think it would be a low-scoring game.
You never know."
Both teams managed to split the 18 games played during the regular season, winning nine apiece. Both teams won five games at home and four on the road to signify their dominance at their own ballpark.
Cardinals’ manager Tony La Russa, however, voiced that his team could have produced better results in the regular season only if pitching was more consistent. He said, "I mean, the history of our season this year against them, especially the games we got
beat, is a crooked number. We lost maybe nine times, at least. Four or five of them, four of them we were sailing along and gave up four or five or six. Once they get rolling, we have done a poor job of stopping it at one or two. That's something we can control.”
La Russa articulated that Miller Park is a hitters’ ballpark and thus gives an added advantage to an aggressive line-up. However, conditions in St. Louis will tilt the advantage towards pitching and that is where the Redbirds might take advantage. If the
Cardinals manage to keep the visitors at bay in Game 3, they will have a chance to wrap up the series without playing all seven games.
However, with Chris Carpenter and Yovani Gallardo fighting it out for their teams from the mound, neither team can be assured of a definitive advantage.
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