This is an 8* on OVER

The Giants had a five-game win streak snapped last night as they lost 3-1 to the Cardinals. That result definitely caught us by surprise even though we’d acknowledged how good Kwang Hyun-Kim had been for St. Louis. Today we’ll take the Over as it won’t be Kim pitching for the Cardinals. Instead it will be veteran Wade LeBlanc. His four starts have yielded a 1.77 WHIP. Three of those fours starts have seen LeBlanc fail to go five innings. You have to figure he’ll be giving up several runs here to a Giants offense that averages 5.0 runs/game and is 10-4 Over its last 14 games at Busch Stadium. But the reason we’re taking Over here (as opposed to the Giants again) is because San Francisco’s starter isn’t much better than LeBlanc. While LeBlanc gave up three runs in the first inning of his last start, Johnny Cueto gave up four runs in six innings to this very opponent back on 7/6. Cueto has given up nine runs in his last two starts. He has a 5.64 ERA and 1.68 WHIP on the road. Play on OVER

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