Very fitting that on Thursday, days after the passing of legend Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants are in Mays’ home state of Alabama to play a game at historic Rickwood Field against the St. Louis Cardinals.
San Francisco Giants vs. St. Louis Cardinals (-122, 8.5)
Though Major League Baseball has tried to keep in tact so much of what makes this ballpark historic, the fences have been brought in significantly then when the fences were out at over 450 feet when Negro League Baseball was being played their in its hay day.
For this game, the deepest part of the ballpark is left center field at 399 feet with left field being out at 321 feet and right field 332 feet, which should be the friend of hitters on this day with Thursday setting up to be a warm one with high temperatures in the low 90 degrees range.
In these conditions, the Cardinals will use a pitch to contact starting pitcher Andre Pallante, who has a 4.69 ERA with 6.9 strikeouts to four walks per nine innings.
On the Giants side Keaton Winn gets the start, who has a 6.66 ERA this season with a 4.69 fielding independent with 3.2 walks and 1.4 home runs per nine innings allowed while getting only 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings.
On the bright side for Winn, he he Giants have been providing run support on the road this season, ranking 12th in the league in runs per game on the road with more than 4.5 runs per game while scoring a little over 4.2 runs per game at home.
Both teams will have very tired bullpens as the Cardinals played two extra innings games in their previous series against the Miami Marlins, entering Wednesday 12th in the league in bullpen ERA at 3.67 while the Giants entered Thursday with a 4.32 ERA, ranking 21st in the league.
With the Giants having a bullpen game yesterday where six different players pitched and the Cardinals averaging over 4.5 runs per game in their past 33 games, the fans in Alabama will be treated to some runs on Thursday.
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