Ryan Dempster gave the Cubs a quality start while Ronny Cedeno and Mark DeRosa knocked in a pair of runs each to help Chicago top St. Louis, 6-2, in the rubber match of a three-game series.<\/p>\n
The Cubs extended their advantage over the Cardinals in the NL Central to seven games.<\/p>\n
St. Louis is now three games off Milwaukee’s pace in the NL wild card standings.<\/p>\n
Game Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n Chicago leads the 2008 season series 5-4 and was 11-5 against the Cardinals last season… The Cubs are off Monday before heading to Atlanta for a three- game series starting Tuesday, while St. Louis opens a four-game set in Miami Monday with the Marlins<\/p>\n Check out our cappers for Monday’s MLB Picks<\/a>, or their free mlb predictions<\/a>, and bet on baseball with our top baseball betting sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cubs Win Series vs. Cardinals Ryan Dempster gave the Cubs a quality start while Ronny Cedeno and Mark DeRosa knocked in a pair of runs each to help Chicago top St. Louis, 6-2, in the rubber match of a three-game series. The Cubs extended their advantage over the Cardinals in the NL Central to seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[246,266,991,346,399,66493,66497,901,1028,1208,1352,1368],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras","tag-busch-stadium","tag-cardinals","tag-picks","tag-cubs","tag-espn","tag-extras","tag-mlb","tag-nl-central","tag-predictions","tag-sunday-night-baseball","tag-wild-card","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}