MIKE'S SUPER EARLY PIRATES/CARDS MLB TOP PLAY OF THE DAY
(MLB) Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis,
Point Spread: -1.50 | 115.00 St. Louis (Home)
Result: Win
Pirates starter JT Brubaker (0-6, 4.60 ERA) is 0-5 with a 6.75 ERA in six career games (five starts) against St. Louis.

Cardinals rookie left-hander Matthew Liberatore (1-1, 5.54 ERA) last pitched on June 2 and has been recalled from Triple-A Memphis to make his fourth big league start. He held Milwaukee to two hits with six Ks over five scoreless innings in his lone home start to date.

Pittsburgh is coming into this game on a seven-game losing streak and it is one of the lowest-scoring teams in baseball averaging only 3.56 runs per game, which drops to 3.30 runs per game on the road. The Cards are winners of three of their last four, and they've scored 18 runs over their last three games.

10* PLAY ON ST. LOUIS CARDINALS -1.5.