MJ Melendez’s Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals, who will be sending Adam Wainwright to the hill, match up at Kauffman Stadium on Friday, August 11. The first pitch will be thrown at 8:10 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Melendez
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | +103 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -134 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -135 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | -121 |
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Stats and Trends for the St. Louis Cardinals
- Wainwright (3-6) will take to the mound for the Cardinals and make his 15th start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up seven earned runs in three innings pitched on Saturday in his last outing, a matchup with the Colorado Rockies.
- The 41-year-old has an ERA of 7.81, a 1.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.980 in 14 games this season.
- The Cardinals strike out just 8.1 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranks 26th in MLB.
- Cardinals pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.57 this year, which ranks 22nd in MLB.
- The Cardinals have a combined WHIP of 1.434 as a pitching staff, which is fourth-worst in baseball this season.
- The Cardinals have given up the fewest long balls so far this season with only 111 home runs allowed.
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MJ Melendez Stats vs. the Cardinals
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/30/2023 | Miles Mikolas | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 5/29/2023 | Adam Wainwright | 1-for-3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1/2 | 0 |
| 5/4/2022 | Adam Wainwright | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 5/3/2022 | Dakota Hudson | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0 |
Melendez Stats and Trends
- Melendez has reached base with a base hit 69 times this year in 109 games played (63.3%), including multiple knocks in 15.6% of them (17 times).
- In 11 of 109 games this season, he has hit a home run (10.1%). He’s left the yard in 2.7% of his trips to the dish.
- He has scored in 38 of 109 games this season, including multiple runs scored in nine of them.
- In 26 of 109 games this year (23.9%), Melendez has picked up an RBI, and in 12 of those games (11.0%) he knocked in multiple runs. He has also been responsible for three or more of his team’s runs in two contests.
- In 76.1% of his 109 games this season, he has gone down on strikes (83 times). He’s also had 36 games with multiple Ks in 2023 (33.0%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | GP | 54 |
| 35 (63.6%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 34 (63.0%) |
| 6 (10.9%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 11 (20.4%) |
| 19 (34.5%) | Games w/1+ Run | 19 (35.2%) |
| 6 (10.9%) | Games w/1+ HR | 5 (9.3%) |
| 13 (23.6%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 13 (24.1%) |
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