Busch Stadium is where Santiago Espinal and the Toronto Blue Jays will challenge starter Jack Flaherty and the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday, April 1 at 2:15 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Espinal
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | -102 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -123 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -116 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -123 |
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Stats and Trends for the St. Louis Cardinals
- The Cardinals will send out Flaherty for his first start of the season.
- The last time the righty took the mound was on Thursday last season, when he pitched zero scoreless innings in a matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays.
- Last season, he posted a 4.25 ERA with 8.3 strikeouts per nine innings and a record of 2-1.
- The Cardinals struck out just 7.4 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranked 30th in MLB last season.
- Cardinals pitchers had a combined ERA of 3.79 last year, ninth-best in baseball.
- The Cardinals had a combined WHIP of 1.271 as a pitching staff, which ranked 15th in MLB.
- With just 146 homers allowed, the Cardinals ranked third in the league at preventing long balls.
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Santiago Espinal Stats vs. the Cardinals
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/30/2023 | Miles Mikolas | 0-for-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 7/26/2022 | Andre Pallante | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 5/24/2022 | Jordan Hicks | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 5/23/2022 | Miles Mikolas | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 0 |
Espinal Stats and Trends
- Espinal had a hit in 82 of 136 games last season, with multiple hits in 32 of those games.
- In seven of 136 games last year, he hit a long ball (5.1%). He went deep in 1.4% of his trips to the plate in 2022.
- In 33.1% of his 136 games last season, he scored (45 times). He had six games with multiple runs in 2022 (4.4%).
- In 26.5% of his 136 games a year ago, Espinal picked up an RBI (36 times). He also had 11 games with multiple RBIs (8.1%), and three or more RBIs in four games.
- In 55 of 136 games a season ago (40.4%), he struck out one or more times, and in 13 of those games (9.6%) he struck out two or more times.
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 68 | GP | 68 |
| 44 (64.7%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 38 (55.9%) |
| 19 (27.9%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 13 (19.1%) |
| 21 (30.9%) | Games w/1+ Run | 24 (35.3%) |
| 3 (4.4%) | Games w/1+ HR | 4 (5.9%) |
| 16 (23.5%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 20 (29.4%) |
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