St. Louis Cardinals vs San Diego Padres Prediction, 4/2/2024 MLB Picks, Best Bets & Odds

Game: St. Louis Cardinals vs San Diego Padres

Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Location: Petco Park in San Diego, CA

TV: Bally Sports Midwest

Odds/Point Spread: St. Louis (+120) San Diego (-142)

The San Diego Padres (3-3) will compete against the St. Louis Cardinals (1-3) at Petco Park on Tuesday. The moneyline on this contest has the Cardinals at +120 while the Padres open at -142. The over/under is set at 8. The pitchers who are expected to start are Miles Mikolas and Yu Darvish.

As a team, the St. Louis Cardinals are compiling 3.5 runs per game, which has them sitting at 24th in the league. They have accounted for 14 runs while having a team OBP of .233. The Cardinals have compiled 4 two-baggers as a unit and have knocked 1 balls out of the stadium. They have accrued 13 RBI's in addition to 23 base knocks this season, and their average at the plate sits at .173. St. Louis owns a slugging percentage of .226 and have been called out on strikes 43 times, while drawing a walk on 8 occasions.

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They have accrued a K/BB ratio of 2.79 and the pitching staff has earned a collective WHIP of 1.56. Cardinals pitchers have surrendered 9 home runs and 23 runs in total (22nd in baseball). St. Louis has yielded 39 base knocks (10.3 per 9 innings) as well as 23 earned runs. The Cardinals are sitting with a team earned run average of 6.09 for the year (24th in MLB), and their staff has rung up 39 hitters. They have walked 14 opposing players and their FIP sits at 6.11 as a team on the campaign.

The Cardinals relief pitchers have a save percentage of 33.3% and has stepped onto the mound in 7 save situations. The bullpen pitchers have inherited 4 runners on the year with 50.0% of those players ended up scoring. Cardinals pitchers have stepped onto the hill with players on base 5 times as well as having 5 appearances in high leverage situations. The Cardinals have sent 13 relievers to the hill on the year. The bullpen have tallied 4 holds so far this season (3rd in the league). They have tallied 1 save for the season and have blown 2 of their 3 save chances.

The St. Louis Cardinals are sitting with 102 putouts this year, as well as 28 assists and 0 errors. Their fielding percentage is at 1.000 which puts them in 2nd in professional baseball, and have 5 double plays. The Cardinals have converted 65.3% of balls in play into outs out of their 306 innings, which has them sitting 22nd in MLB.

Mikolas has taken the ball for 928 innings and is sitting with 678 strikeouts during his career. Mikolas (54-54 mark in his career) is the owner of a FIP of 4.05 while he has gone up against 3,849 opposing hitters in the major leagues. His ERA is 3.96 (409 ER's allowed) and his WHIP is 1.192. He has given up 921 base hits (8.9 hits per nine innings) with 186 walks.

San Diego has hit 8 home runs on the year to go along with 41 runs batted in. They have put up 13 doubles, while walking 22 times and scoring 45 runs. The San Diego Padres have accounted for an on-base percentage of .371 and a batting average of .297 this season. The Padres have a team SLG% of .481 and they average 7.50 runs per contest (5th in MLB). They have struck out on 43 instances (4th in MLB) and have tallied 63 hits.

The San Diego pitching staff have relinquished 41 runs on the campaign and come in with a team ERA of 6.33 (38 earned runs given up). They have surrendered 7 home runs and they allow 6.83 runs per 9 innings (22nd in MLB). The Padres have a WHIP of 1.630 and are the owners of a FIP of 5.29 as a unit on the year. Their K/BB ratio sits at 8.70 (52 strikeouts vs 29 free passes). They come in at 30th in MLB as a staff in total hits allowed with 59.

San Diego has had bullpen pitchers step onto the hill in 4 save chances and they have walked away with 2 saves. They are ranked 12th in the league holding a save percentage of 50.0%, and they have sent 26 relievers to the mound on the year. Their relief pitchers have stepped onto the mound 8 times in high leverage situations and on 11 occasions with base runners. San Diego relievers have an inherited score percentage of 53.3% out of 15 inherited base runners. With 10 save situations, the Padres have 5 holds and 2 blown saves.

The San Diego Padres have turned 5 double plays and own a fielding percentage of .982 (17th in baseball). The Padres have 53 assists, 4 errors and have a total of 162 putouts so far this season. In their 486 innings played, the Padres have accumulated a efficiency on defense of 65.4% (21st in the majors).

So far in his pro baseball career, Darvish has allowed 1,336 hits and he has 1,939 K's in 1,633 innings pitched. Darvish (103-85 win-loss mark in his career) holds a 3.58 earned run average while surrendering 7.4 hits per nine innings. He has allowed 649 earned runs while holding a WHIP of 1.140 and a FIP of 3.5. His strikeout to walk ratio is 3.69 and he has gone up against 6,715 opposing hitters so far in his pro baseball career.

Who will win tonight's MLB game against the spread or moneyline?

Tony Sink's Pick: Take St. Louis (+120)

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