T.M. Selection: Cardinals/Dodgers OVER.

I am on the over in the St. Louis Cardinals vs LA Dodgers Wild Card game on Wednesday. The Cardinals were easily the hottest team in the MLB to finish off the regular season this year. In the last week they were on a 17 game win streak at one point that was ended but they had been scoring so many runs along with it. When the Cardinals needed to win games to get here they didn't just win games barely or scrape by with good pitching, they won their games with force putting up run after run as they would bury teams. Adam Wainwright (17-7, 3.05 ERA) is starting and he has been a little shaky in his last couple of starts. He has given up 7 runs in his last 2 starts and he also faced the Dodgers in early September giving up 4 runs in that game. The Dodgers were another team that finished the season incredibly hot as they were trying to catch the Giants for the division. They put 8+ runs in each of their last 5 games to finish the season scoring a ton of runs. Max Scherzer (15-4, 2.46 ERA) is starting but he has not been at his best lately. He has had 2 bad starts in a row now giving up 5 runs in each game he pitched in. These are two of the hottest hitting teams in the MLB right now and both pitchers have seen better days lately. I think there will be a lot of runs scored here so I like the over in this one.

T.M. Prediction: 9-5 Dodgers.