{"id":754,"date":"2024-09-22T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-09-22T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T12:06:11","slug":"matchup-preview-cleveland-guardians-vs-st-louis-cardinals-september-22-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/matchup-preview-cleveland-guardians-vs-st-louis-cardinals-september-22-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchup Preview: Cleveland Guardians vs St. Louis Cardinals &#8211; September 22, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Guardians are set to clash with the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on September 22, 2024, beginning at 2:15 PM under expected moderate rain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the pitching for the Guardians will be Gavin Williams, who carries a 5.118 ERA into the game. Facing him from the Cardinals&#8217; side will be Andre Pallante, boasting an ERA of 3.869. The Guardians currently sit at second in the AL Central with a 90-66 record, reflecting a .580 winning percentage, and are leading their division play. They&#8217;ve maintained a strong recent performance with six wins in their last ten games, despite a recent loss.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the Cardinals hold the ninth position in the NL Central with a close 78-77 record, a .500 winning percentage, and an even divisional play record. A recent win adds a positive note to their last ten games&#8217; performance of five victories.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the odds, the Guardians are slightly favored on the road with an AwayTeamMoneyLine of -108, despite the Cardinals holding a very close HomeTeamMoneyLine of -111. The game&#8217;s point spread is set at 1.5, indicative of a potentially close game, while the over\/under is pegged at 7.5, suggesting expectations of a moderately low-scoring affair. As both teams battle it out, the fine margins reflected in these odds could point towards a tightly contested matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Guardians are set to clash with the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on September 22, 2024, beginning at 2:15 PM under expected mode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethawaiisports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}