Kansas City Royals vs St. Louis Cardinals Prediction & Picks - MLB

Prediction published on 7/9/24, 7:05 PM  by Carlos Zabala | Modified on 7/10/24 at 5:06 PM in MLB Picks

The suspension of Game 1 due to rain resulted in a doubleheader for Wednesday, June 10 between the Royals and Cardinals at Busch Stadium. The duel of experienced pitchers in the league between Wacha for Royals and Gray will be postponed as Gray will be pushed to pitch Friday's game against Cubs

The Cardinals arrive on fire, holding the second wild card in the NL and having won in 12 of their last 17 games. At one point they were 15-24 in May. Regarding this recovery, Manager Marmol declared "We're not close to being done." Part of the Cardinals' sudden success is due to the excellent bullpen, with the 4th best ERA in MLB with 3.40, which has also achieved the highest number of saves in MLB with 34. Also, the Cardinals offense woke up in the second half of June and In early July, in the last 10 games the Cardinals are averaging 9.9 hits per game. 

Wacha, who pitched 6 years for the Cardinals, will be in charge of stopping them. Wacha has faced his former team twice in his career, winning in both starts with a 2.19 ERA.

Royals went through a downturn in their performance and collective hitting in June, where they barely hit 228 collective AVG and gave only 199 hits. This cost them 2nd place in the AL central division, although they are still in the race to get the last AL wild card