On Friday the N.L.C.S. Selection is on the St. Louis Cardinals. Game 822 at 8:35 eastern. St. Louis looks to close things out tonight. The have some solid precedents in playoff history on their side tonight. The Cardinals are 10-0 at home off a road loss and have won the last 6 times as a home dog. When the total is 7 or less in their home games they have won 16 of 22 times. The last 3 games here at home vs a lefty they have won. Tonight they will get Kershaw who despite having pitched well vs St. Louis has seen the Dodgers lose his last 3 starts vs the Cardinals. Wacha has a 0.40 era in his last 3 starts and has been solid vs LA in this series.



The Los Angeles Dodgers have a 0-3 series record and a 0-3 Game 6 record, with the losses having occurred (to the New York Yankees in the 1977 MLB Finals), and (to the New York Yankees in the 1978 MLB Finals), as well as (to the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1985 MLB Semifinals). MLB/NBA/NHL teams having posted a WWLWL @ HHVVV win/site order through the first five games of a best-of-7 playoff series (such as St. Louis in series 1219) have an 8-2 series record, with an active eight-series winning streak and an active five-Game 6 winning streak. With Numbers like these and the aforementioned home success of St. Louis. We will back the Cardinals to send Carlos Beltran to the World series.





On Friday the Bonus College football selection is on the Louisville Cardinals. Game 308 at 8;00 eastern. Louisville has won and covered 7 of 9 vs winning teams and should be able to handle a UCF team that had to have a huge late rally to beat a mediocre Memphis team. Coach Strong for Louisville has covered 1 straight here off back to back unders. With Bridewater getting a look fro several NFL Scouts last week in a lack luster win vs Rutgers we will see a much better performance here tonight as Louisville rolls a UCF team that is 1-13 vs Undefeated teams. Take Louisville.