I love the Cardinals in this spot not only do they have good numbers against Ian Kennedy they have eaten up pitchers like him. IN that regards I mean fly ball pitchers. Which is what Ian Kennedy is as he produces just 35% ground balls. The Cardinals have played in 5 games against baseballs lowest ground ball producers. Every single one of them they have been able to score runs including a game against Ian Kennedy where they scored 6 ER off him in 7 innings. Overall in those 5 combined games the starting pitchers have a 9.72 ERA. That includes two starts from Matt Cain who is nearly a mirror image of Kennedy. They both walk 1.86 guys per 9, while Cain is better at striking people out, and giving up less HR's and he's a bit tougher with guys on base. All the Cardinals have done against Cain is score 9 runs over his 11.2 IP this year for a 6.94 ERA. Overall the Cardinal hitters have good numbers too, Beltran/Halladay/Jay/Schumaker are a combined 14-34 with 2HR. Kennedy is on 5 days rest here, but that really hasn't seem to help him this year as he posts a 4.34 ERA on 5 days rest and a 4.00 ERA on the road. He's really only faced one elite hitting team on the road on 5 days rest and that was the Rangers and he gave up 6 ER in 5.2 IP. I don't think the extra rest will benefit him here tonight.

Where to find Freddy?