St. Louis Cardinals vs San Diego Padres Live Streaming
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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10:05 pm EDT Tue May 25, 2010
While most expected the St. Louis Cardinals to be in the thick of another NL Central title race, the San Diego Padres’ position atop the NL West is far more surprising. The key for both teams’ success has been their solid pitching, and each will send their top pitcher to the hill Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game series at Petco Park. Adam Wainwright looks to lead the Cardinals to their sixth win in eight games when he squares off against Jon Garland, who is trying to win six straight decisions for the first time in four years. St. Louis, coming off Sunday’s 6-5, 10-inning win over the Los Angeles Angels to wrap up a 5-2 homestand, has won four of the last six Central crowns. With Albert Pujols mired in a slump, the Cardinals have relied on their strong pitching, which ranks second in the league with a 3.07 ERA. Wainwright has been instrumental to that success with the league’s ninth-best ERA.
The right-hander allowed two runs and six hits with eight strikeouts in seven innings of Thursday’s 4-2 win over Florida, the third time in four starts he yielded two runs or fewer. In his only start against San Diego, Wainwright allowed eight hits in seven shutout innings of a 9-2 victory in St. Louis on Aug. 14. The Cardinals took six of seven from the Padres last season, as San Diego finished in fourth place in the West. The Padres, though, are no longer looking like pushovers. Led by an NL-best 2.98 ERA, San Diego has a one-game lead over Los Angeles in the division. After emerging star Mat Latos led the Padres to an 8-1 win over Seattle on Sunday, Garland looks to give them another solid performance. Garland, seventh in the NL in ERA, struggled in a 10-5 win over the Dodgers on Wednesday. He allowed four runs with season highs of nine hits and 117 pitches over five innings but still moved to 5-0 with a 1.89 ERA in his last six starts.
