T.M. Selection: St Louis Cardinals.

I like the St Louis Cardinals to win this game against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday. The Cardinals have looked really good in their games lately, winning 3/4 of their previous 4 games. Their offense has looked really good in those games too, putting up 5+ runs in all of those games and I think their offense is going to stay hot here against a bad team. The Cubs haven't looked good in their games lately, they have lost 3/4 of their previous 4 games. They came out of the All Star break really hot but they have cooled off now and I think they are going back to the team they were before the break, losing a lot of games with bad pitching and a bad offense. They haven't put up many runs in their previous series and even in the games they were winning before that, they were only putting up 3 or 4 runs in their games near the end of that run. I think their run is done now and I see the Cardinals getting hot now to go on their own little run here. Adam Wainwright (7-8, 3.28 ERA) is up for the Cardinals here and he has looked great all year. He pitched well in July, he did have 1 bad start but he bounced back in his most recent start and I expect him to shut down this bad lineup on the Cubs here. He has already seen the Cubs lineup this year and only gave up 2 runs as he shut them down in that game. I expect him to do the same here with how bad the Cubs offense has looked lately. Keegan Thompson (8-4, 3.16 ERA) is up for the Cubs here and he hasn't looked bad this year but he hasn't been having a good July and I think that is going to extend into August here. He bounced back in his most recent start but he was pitching against a bad Pirates lineup and I think he is going to run into a lot more trouble here with the hot Cardinals lineup coming up here. I like the Cardinals to win this game.

T.M. Prediction: 7-1 Cardinals.