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The Milwaukee Brewers are a -179 favorite hosting the St. Louis Cardinals Monday night. Jon Lester (6-6, 4.67) will start for the Cardinals and the Brewers will have Freddy Peralta (9-4, 2.57) going to the mound.
Milwaukee with its 91-58 record has clinched a Playoff berth. They are 11.5 games ahead of the Cardinals.
The Brewers have won 6 of the last 10 games in this series, half of which have resulted in 10 or more runs.
Lester is coming off a win. He's allowed very few runs over the last month and he has permitted a single home run versus Brewers hitters in 187 at bats.
Freddy Peralta pitched six shutout innings and struck out nine versus the Tigers on Tuesday.
St. Louis hitters are .307 versus Peralta (24 of 95 at bats) and have 6 home runs against him.
The Cardinals have 6 or more runs in six of their last eight games.
The Brewers have 6 or more runs in half of their last ten games.
The total in this game is 8 and we will be on the OVER here.
- Ean Lamb, Gambling911.com
