<p>National League division leaders clash when the Dodgers and Cardinals meet for game two of a three-game series at Dodger Stadium Saturday night. Lefty Clay Kershaw will get some work in for Los Angeles here against fellow southpaw Jordan Montgomery for St. Louis.<br />
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<h2>MLB Betting Odds </h2>
<p>Saturday's baseball betting lines opened LA and Kershaw at around -175 over St. Louis and Montgomery, with an over/under of 7.5 runs. Early betting action then goosed the Dodgers 15 cents to -190.</p>
<h2>Cardinals-Dodgers MLB Betting Preview </h2>
<p>St. Louis grabbed the opener of this series Friday night, 11-0. The Cardinals banged out 12 hits Friday, 10 of those for extra bases, including a pair of home runs from Albert Pujols, who's now got 700 dingers for his career. St. Louis also got a super quality outing from starter Jose Quintana and 2 1/3 scoreless innings from its bullpen.<br />
With Friday's win, the Cardinals are 2-3 over their last five games. But at 89-64 overall, St. Louis leads the NL Central by 7.5 games over second-place Milwaukee, with just ten games to play.<br />
With Friday's loss, Los Angeles is 1-3 over its last four games. But at 104-47 overall, the Dodgers lead the Mets by 8.5 games in the battle for the best record in the National League.<br />
These teams have split four meetings so far this season.</p>
<h2>Saturday's Pitching Match-Up</h2>
<p><a class="advblue" href="https://www.sportsbettingstats.com/mlb/pitcherlog/39783&quot; title="Clayton Kershaw Pitching Game Stats">Kershaw</a> is 10/19 on quality starts this season and 3/4 since returning from a stint on the DL. Monday, he held Arizona to one run and six hits through six innings of a 5-2 Los Angeles victory. And over his last four starts, he's allowed just four runs and 14 hits through 24 innings, with four walks against 29 strikeouts.<br />
The Dodgers are 12-7 with Kershaw this season, 3-0 his last three times out.<br />
This will be Kershaw's first start against St. Louis since 2019.<br />
<a class="advblue" href="https://www.sportsbettingstats.com/mlb/pitcherlog/116017&quot; title="Jordan Montgomery Pitching Game Logs">Montgomery</a> is 12/30 on quality starts this year, 4/9 since joining the Cardinals in that deadline<br />
trade with the Yankees but 0 for his last two. Last Sunday against Cincinnati, he allowed three runs and seven hits through 5 1/3 innings of a 3-0 St. Louis loss. And just before that, he gave up six runs - four earned - through five frames of an 8-4 Cardinals defeat against the Brewers.<br />
The Yankees only played 9-12 with Montgomery earlier this season, but St. Louis is 7-2 with him.<br />
This will be Montgomery's first career start against the Dodgers.</p>
<h2>Splits With the Sticks</h2>
<p>St. Louis is batting .263 against left-handed pitching this season, with a .344 team OBP and an ML-best .466 team slugging percentage. Numbers like those lead us to rank this line-up among the top three or four in Baseball in this split.<br />
Los Angeles is slashing .256/.329/.433 against left-handed pitching.</p>
<h2>The Bullpens</h2>
<p>The Dodgers bullpen owns an ML-best 2.85 ERA this season, along with an ML-best 1.05 WHIP. However, this unit also just removed the struggling Kimbrel from the closer role.<br />
The Cardinals pen owns a 3.74 ERA and a 1.26 WHIP.</p>
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<h2>MLB Betting Trends</h2>
<p>St. Louis is 36-35 on the road this season and 24-10 against left-handed starters.<br />
Los Angeles is an ML-best 52-20 at home and 29-15 against left-handed starters.</p>
<h2>Totals Report</h2>
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<li>The Unders are 75-71 in Cardinals games this season.</li>
<li>The Unders are 74-63 in Dodgers games.</li>
<li>The Overs are 33-32 at Dodger Stadium this season.</li>
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