Busch Stadium is where Rafael Ortega and the New York Mets will go up against starter Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday, August 17 at 7:15 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Ortega
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -141 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -106 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -105 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -136 |
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Stats and Trends for the St. Louis Cardinals
- The Cardinals’ Wainwright (3-7) will make his 16th start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up eight earned runs and allowed nine hits in one inning pitched against the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.
- The 41-year-old has an ERA of 8.77, a 1.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 2.085 in 15 games this season.
- The Cardinals have a 8.1 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 26th in baseball.
- Cardinals pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.62 this year, which ranks 23rd in MLB.
- The Cardinals have a combined WHIP of 1.435 as a pitching staff, which is fourth-worst in baseball this season.
- The Cardinals have given up the first-fewest long balls so far this season with only 118 home runs allowed.
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Rafael Ortega Stats vs. the Cardinals
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/4/2022 | Miles Mikolas | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 9/3/2022 | Adam Wainwright | 2-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/25/2022 | Dakota Hudson | 0-for-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/24/2022 | Miles Mikolas | 2-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/23/2022 | Jake Woodford | 1-for-2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/23/2022 | Adam Wainwright | 0-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 8/4/2022 | Miles Mikolas | 3-for-5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/2/2022 | Adam Wainwright | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 6/26/2022 | Jack Flaherty | 1-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 6/25/2022 | Miles Mikolas | 1-for-4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
Ortega Stats and Trends
- Ortega has tallied a hit eight times this year in 15 games played (53.3%), with three multi-hit efforts (20.0%).
- In the 15 games he’s appeared in this season, he has no homers.
- In four of 15 contests this year (26.7%), he has touched home plate, and three of those games (20.0%) included a performance that produced two or more runs scored.
- Ortega has plated a run in two of 15 games this season, while knocking in multiple runs in one of them.
- He has struck out nine times this season in 15 games played (60.0%), including one game where he fanned multiple times.
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | GP | 5 |
| 6 (60.0%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 2 (40.0%) |
| 3 (30.0%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 0 (0.0%) |
| 3 (30.0%) | Games w/1+ Run | 1 (20.0%) |
| 0 (0.0%) | Games w/1+ HR | 0 (0.0%) |
| 2 (20.0%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 0 (0.0%) |
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