Squeaked by 1-0. CG for Alcantara. Now 3-1 on the season.

Today:

St. Louis burned me for my only loss of the season so far (I'm 3-1 in the early goings), but I'm going to try them again.

Miles Mikolas had a great 2022 season, and then a very nice spring 2023. Somehow that didn't translate to his first regular season start, where he got bombed. But I think he's going to pitch better today. In his first start, he allowed 10 hits, but 5 of them were soft singles, and there were no HR against him. He also didn't walk anyone, and struck out 6 in 3 1/3 innings. It was one of those "bad starts" where the box score looks much worse than he actually pitched.

Bryce Elder, on the other hand, allowed 8 runs in 11 innings this spring, and failed to make the rotation. He's only pitching because Max Fried is injured.

The Cards have lost both games at home versus the Braves, but I think they take this day game which starts at 10:35am PDT.

St. Louis (Mikolas) -128 vs Atlanta (Elder)