{"id":586,"date":"2008-08-30T14:28:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capperspicks.wordpress.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2008-08-30T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T19:28:12","slug":"big-als-free-pick-of-the-day-cardinals-vs-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/extras\/big-als-free-pick-of-the-day-cardinals-vs-astros\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Al&#8217;s Free Pick Of The Day &#8211; Cardinals vs. Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"bodybold\">Big Al&#8217;s       Free Pick Of The Day &#8211; Cardinals vs. Astros<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span class=\"bodybold\">St Louis Cardinals vs. Houston Astros (MLB) &#8211; Aug 30, 2008 7:05 PM EDT<br \/>\nPlay: Money Line: -125     St Louis Cardinals     Pick Title: BIG AL&#8217;s FREE SATURDAY SPORTS WINNER.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"newbodyarticle\">At 7:05pm our complimentary selection is on the St. Louis Cardinals over the Houston Astros. Veteran righthanded starter Braden Looper is a bit of a hard luck pitcher. Despite an excellent ERA of 3.94, and playing for a team that wins about 55% of the time, Looper has only won 12 of his 27 starts this season. Looper has had six quality starts in a row, but only three wins to show for it. Looper gets most of his wins on the road, where he is 7-3 with a 3.66 ERA this season, including a win against this Houston team in his second start of the year. Houston&#8217;s Brian Moehler has pitched well enough this year (9-5 with a 3.99 ERA in 20 starts) that the Astros decided to offer him a contract extension through the 2009 season. Despite his team showing faith in him in this way, Moehler has been less-than-spectacular lately, only throwing 5 1\/3 innings in each of his last three starts while compiling a 1-1 record and 5.06 ERA along with a 1.62 WHIP. The Cards have dominated their division rivals this season, and even with their 3-2 loss on Friday, St. Louis is 10-5 in its last 15 games against the &#8216;Stros. Take the Cards. As always, good luck&#8230;Al McMordie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newbodyarticle\">Al McMordie has had a College Football game on this opening weekend CIRCLED FOR MONTHS, and it goes on Saturday. It&#8217;s Big Al&#8217;s #1 College Football Game of the Month, and it&#8217;s backed by 2 strong angles. If you need 1 BIG PLAY to make your Saturday, this MONSTER WINNER is it. Get on it.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"newbodyarticle\"><a href=\"\/handicappers\/big-al-mcmordie\/\">Click   Here For More of Big Al McMordie&#8217;s sports picks<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Al&#8217;s Free Pick Of The Day &#8211; Cardinals vs. Astros St Louis Cardinals vs. Houston Astros (MLB) &#8211; Aug 30, 2008 7:05 PM EDT Play: Money Line: -125 St Louis Cardinals Pick Title: BIG AL&#8217;s FREE SATURDAY SPORTS WINNER. At 7:05pm our complimentary selection is on the St. Louis Cardinals over the Houston Astros. [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,111,112,192,196,267,269,66493,447,449,471,66513],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extras","tag-astros","tag-baseball-picks","tag-baseball-predictions","tag-big-al","tag-bigalcom","tag-cardinals-vs-astros","tag-cards","tag-extras","tag-free-baseball-mlb-pick","tag-free-baseball-picks","tag-free-picks","tag-handicapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}