Brewers vs. Cardinals Wednesday MLB odds, props: Nolan Arenado priced +525 to tie franchise record with homer in sixth consecutive game

While the St. Louis Cardinals lost on Tuesday night to end a four-game winning streak, the team has started to turn its season around by winning seven of nine -- in part because star third baseman Nolan Arenado has gotten red hot. He looks to tie a franchise record by homering in a sixth consecutive game tonight as the Cards host 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes and the Milwaukee Brewers. Arenado is +525 at Caesars Sportsbook to go yard.

The seven-time All-Star and five-time Silver Slugger Award winner hit a second-inning solo homer Tuesday off Brewers lefty Wade Miley, making the game his fifth straight with a home run. He hadn't done that since a career-best six-game streak from Sept. 1-5, 2015 while with Colorado. Arenado is the ninth player in Cardinals history to accomplish the feat and the first since Paul Goldschmidt had six games in a row from July 22-27.

Matt Carpenter (July 2018) and Mark McGwire (September 1997-April 1998) are the only other Cardinals to homer in six straight. The MLB record is eight in a row by the Pirates' Dale Long from May 19-28, 1956; the Yankees' Don Mattingly from July 8-18; 1997, and Mariners' Ken Griffey Jr. from July 20-28, 1993. Griffey almost homered on July 29, but instead it was a double off the wall.

Arenado is also one RBI shy of joining the 1,000 club – if he knocks in a run tonight, he would join Hall of Famers Eddie Mathews and Chipper Jones as the only players since 1920 who were primarily third basemen to hit 300 homers with 1,000 RBI before their 1,500th games. Tonight would be Arenado's 1,426th regular-season game. On the season, he's batting .263 with eight homers. Three of the eight have come at home.

Milwaukee's Burnes is 4-2 with a 3.35 ERA on the season and four homers allowed in 45.2 innings. Arenado is 4-for-21 for his career off him with one homer. Burnes is 3-2 with a 1.82 ERA in nine career games (six starts) at Busch Stadium.

The Cardinals have called up lefty Matthew Liberatore, one of the team's top prospects, to start. He had a 3.13 ERA in 46 Triple-A innings this year and had a cup of coffee with the Cardinals in 2022, going 2-2 with a 5.97 ERA in 34.2 innings. He threw five shutout innings in his lone look at Milwaukee.

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