The St. Louis Cardinals are very much alive in the wild card hunt and should help their cause this weekend when they open a 3-game set tonight at Busch Stadium against the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates. St. Louis is expected to send Miles Mikolas to the rubber. Mikolas has been sidelined with arm issues and sat out all of 2020 but if healthy, and he says he is, the stuff is there. In 2018, he was 18-4 with a 2.83 ERA. Pittsburgh is expected to counter with Mitch Keller and he is having a season he would like to forget. Keller is a dismal 3-10 with a bloated ERA of 6.86 and a 1.85 WHIP. The Cardinals should win this game. They are 9-3 on the season against Pittsburgh and the Bucs have just one win in their last 14 games.
TONIGHT’S PICK: ST. LOUIS CARDINALS