Free MLB Picks - Giants at Cardinals MLB Odds: The St. Louis Cardinals are struggling having lost four out of five games and three straight including the first two of a three game series at home in Busch Stadium to the San Francisco Giants. wednesday, the Cardinals will attempt to salvage something out of this series with San Francisco. Catching the Cardinals on a down note is a shot in the arm for the Giants as they try to keep pace with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West standings. The Giants will give the ball to starter Matt Cain in this one. Cain, a righthander is 9-2 this season with a 2.57 ERA. The Cardinals will counter Cain with ace Adam Wainwright. Righthander Wainwright has a 3.51 ERA to go along with a 8-5 record this season.

Cain allowed all five runs, matching his season-worst, in last Friday's 5-1 loss at Milwaukee. But he still managed to look mostly effective, allowing six hits in seven innings and striking out nine. The decision ended his personal seven-game winning streak over a span of nine starts. Cain, who appears bound for the National League All-Star squad, has worked at least six innings in every start and has recorded 10 quality starts in 15 outings. He's living up to his workhorse reputation by averaging 105 pitches per game.

Wainwright has settled into something of a pattern this year. He hasn't been efficient, getting into trouble far too often and running up high pitch counts. But he's shown an ability to limit the damage, locking down with men on base. It's added up to a lot of good-but-not-great starts. The problem is that Wainwright and the team expect closer to great from Wainwright, who was the Opening Day starter at Busch Stadium.

Edgar Renteria went 3-for-4 with two runs batted in, as the Giants doubled the Cardinals 6-3 on Tuesday night. San Francisco cashed as +175 road underdogs as the teams played OVER the 7-run total posted by oddsmakers. Bengie Molina was 2-for-4 with two RBIs for the Giants, while Randy Johnson allowed three runs over 5 1-3 innings to get the win for San Francisco.

Albert Pujols went 2-for-3 with two homers and three RBIs for St. Louis, as losing pitcher Chris Carpenter was rocked for six runs over five innings for the Cardinals.

Free MLB Pick: Play the Giants as a +135 moneyline dog with one of the best pitchers, Matt Cain, on the mound. This might be the best value of the day on the Bodog.com MLB betting board.