The St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds play on Wednesday as they continue their MLB opening series and the baseball game starts up live online with a stream from the Great American Ball Park at 7:10 pm ET and has young ace Michael Wacha against Tony Cingrani and STL will be looking to start the season with two straight wins, while Cincy is hoping to give the home fans something to cheer about.
Adam Wainwright had a great season in 2013 and came in second to Clayton Kershaw in the Cy Young race and now he has started off the new campaign in the right way and he was able to get the 1-0 shutout to open the season. The Cardinals are looking to rebound after losing to the Boston Red Sox in the World Series last year and they come in after trading away previous postseason hero David Freese and they brought in Jhonny Peralta to give them an offensive upgrade at short over Pete Kozma and while they did not put up a ton of runs on Monday, they got the win and now they are hoping to continue that.
Wacha gives the Cardinals an embarrassment of riches in the rotation, as he joins Wainwright and other young stars and he comes in after having a 4-1 record with a sub 3.00 ERA and he also ended up going 10 innings without giving up a run to the Reds and he will be looking to continue that on Wednesday. The Reds did not get much from their highest paid player, as superstar Joey Votto ended up going 0-4 in the opening game and they also had Billy Hamilton, coming in for Shin-Soo Choo, and he did not do his job in the leadoff spot, falling to Wainwright all four times he was up, striking out each time.
The Cardinals got a boost in the game from MVP Yadier Molina and he put a ball from Johnny Cueto in the stands and that was all that the Cardinals needed and that came in the seventh inning and now the Reds are looking for their first runs of the season. Cards manager Mike Matheny has had some great success early in his career and now he is hoping to continue that this season. Wacha continued his dominating postseason from last year in the spring after going for just three runs in his first 27 innings in the playoffs and he went 3-0 with a 1.77 ERA in the spring and will hit the mound on Wednesday for the first time.
The Cardinals and the Reds will play again on Thursday to end the series and that has newly signed pitcher Homer Bailey going against Lance Lynn at 12:35 pm ET.
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