On Sunday, April 2 at 2:15 PM ET, Santiago Espinal and the Toronto Blue Jays will challenge starter Jordan Montgomery and the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.
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Player Prop Odds for Espinal
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -148 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -111 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -104 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -115 |
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Stats and Trends for the St. Louis Cardinals
- The Cardinals will send out Montgomery for his first start of the season.
- The 30-year-old southpaw hasn’t pitched since last season. He last appeared on Saturday against the Toronto Blue Jays, when he pitched zero scoreless innings out of the bullpen.
- Among qualified pitchers in the majors last year, his 3.48 ERA ranked 29th, 1.093 WHIP ranked 19th, and 8 K/9 ranked 27th.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/1/2023 | Jack Flaherty | 0-for-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 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 picked up at least one hit 82 times last year in 136 games played (60.3%), including multiple hits on 32 occasions (23.5%).
- Including the 136 games he played in last season, he went deep in seven of them (5.1%), hitting a home run in 1.4% of his trips to the dish.
- He touched home plate in 33.1% of his games last season (45 of 136), with more than one run on six occasions (4.4%).
- In 36 of 136 games last season (26.5%), Espinal picked up an RBI, and 11 of those games (8.1%) included more than one RBI. He had three or more RBIs in four contests.
- He went down on strikes one or more times 55 times last season in 136 games (40.4%), including 13 multi-strikeout games (9.6%).
| 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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