San Diego Padres at St. Louis Cardinals 5/30/22 - MLB Picks & Predictions

In Monday afternoon MLB action, the San Diego Padres will invade Busch Stadium to face the St. Louis Cardinals. The Padres (30-17) have won seven of their previous ten games and trail NL West Division leading Los Angeles by three games. On Sunday, Trent Grisham walked it off for San Diego with a two-run blast in the tenth inning of a 4-2 home victory versus Pittsburgh.

Thirty-one year old southpaw Nick Martinez (2-2 3.86 ERA) will head to the hill for the Padres in this contest. In his last start, Martinez allowed two runs in five innings during a 3-2 home victory versus Milwaukee.

The St. Louis Cardinals are two games above .500 at home and trail NL Central leading Milwaukee by 3.5 games. On Sunday, St. Louis managed just four hits and struck out 12 times during an 8-0 home loss versus Milwaukee. SP Miles Mikolas (3-3) gave up six runs in five plus innings and took the loss for the Cardinals (26-21).

Twenty-six year old left-hander Packy Naughton (0-1 2.89 ERA) will make his second start of the season for the Cardinals. Through 32 career major league innings, Naughton has walked 15 batters and given up five home runs.