ANALYSIS: We are getting a pretty cheap price on the clearly better Cardinals here because their starting pitcher, Steven Matz, has a 7.27 ERA but that was just one bad start, while his counterpart is rookie Hunter Greene, he of the record-breaking 39 pitches of at least 100 mph last time out. Greene might get his strikeouts here, but Cincinnati is putrid otherwise and is down four regulars in the lineup in the injured Jonathan India (2021 NL Rookie of the Year), Tyler Stephenson, Mike Moustakas and Tyler Naquin.