The Oakland Athletics are just failing the season as a whole and this part of it in particular. Wards of Mark Kotsay brought another series of their defeats to six matches, losing dry in the series to the Boston Red Sox (0:3) and the Houston Astros (0:3) and quite on business are penultimate in the American League. Oaklanders have rarely won in Atlanta before and with such conditions they can fail altogether. In the first meeting, Cole Irwin (2:3) will come out as a pitcher from the Athletics (2:3), not impressive with his statistics.
The St. Louis Cardinals had a five-game confrontation with the Chicago Cubs on the road and also spent quite a lot of energy on winning this series (5:7, 14:5, 1:6, 7:4 and 5:3). Wards of Oliver Marmol only in the final meeting managed to tip the scales in their favor, winning an extra inning. This allowed the Cardinals to climb to fifth place in the National League and they have a very good chance to win back a couple of positions and Kol Irvin (2-3) on the mound will try to help his teammates in the opening match. More today cricket prediction can be obtained from the link provided.
