Cards try to shuffle woes vs. Brewers at Busch

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08/26/2008 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - If the Cardinals are unable to capture the National League wild card, their inability to defeat the Brewers this season may be to blame. St. Louis will try to halt a six-game losing streak to Milwaukee tonight in the opener of a quick two-game set at Busch Stadium, the final series between the two clubs this season.

Thanks to their skid versus the Brewers, the Cardinals have lost nine of 13 versus Milwaukee this year, going just 2-5 at home in the season series. It comes as no surprise that St. Louis trails the Brew Crew by 3 1/2 games in the wild card race.

The Brewers, though, have not turned their attention away from the National League Central title, as they trail the front-running Chicago Cubs by five games. Milwaukee has won four straight to avoid falling behind the Cubs in the race for the division.

That winning streak includes a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates that culminated with a 4-3 extra-inning win on Sunday. Guillermo Mota got out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the top of the 12th inning before J.J. Hardy won it in the bottom of the frame with a run-scoring single.

Mike Cameron finished the game 5-for-5 with a homer and two RBI and Bill Hall had three hits and a run scored for the Brewers, who got just six innings out of starter CC Sabathia. That tied his shortest outing as a Brewer since he was acquired from Cleveland in early July.

Ben Sheets goes tonight for Milwaukee, but he is just 1-5 with a 4.06 earned run average in eight starts since the Brewers traded for Sabathia. The right- handed Sheets faced the Astros on Tuesday and lost his second straight start, allowing five runs on five hits over six innings while striking out seven.

On the season, Sheets is 11-7 with a 3.16 ERA, though he does have a 2.91 ERA in 15 road starts. Lifetime versus the Cardinals, the 30-year-old is 5-14 with a 4.20 ERA in 25 starts, including two no-decisions against them this year.

The Cardinals hope they ride the hot bat of Albert Pujols to a victory tonight. Pujols went 2-for-2 with a two-run homer in Sunday's 6-3 win over Atlanta, St. Louis' third win in four games.

Pujols, fresh off being named the NL Player of the Week on Monday, is hitting .563 (18-for-32) over an eight-game hitting streak with four homers, 10 RBI and six multi-hit games. His season average of .359 is tied with Atlanta's Chipper Jones for the major-league lead, and Pujols is hitting .382 (26-for-68) in his career versus Sheets with four homers and 11 RBI.

Todd Wellemeyer, just four days shy of his 30th birthday, draws the starting assignment for St. Louis tonight. He will try to win his fourth straight start and improve on his 11-4 season record and 3.79 ERA. The right-hander defeated Pittsburgh on Wednesday, allowing two runs on five hits over five innings of an 11-2 win.

Wellemeyer is 0-1 with a save and 5.85 ERA in nine games lifetime versus the Brewers. Two of those have been starts and both have come this year, with Wellemeyer getting a no-decision in each of them.

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2007 Academy Award Betting : Oscars odds

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Alejandro González Iñárritu "Babel": 8/1

Martin Scorsese "The Departed": 2/17

Clint Eastwood "Letters From Iwo Jima: 4/1

Stephen Frears "The Queen": 12/1

Paul Greengrass "United 93": 15/1

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:

Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond": 11/1

Ryan Gosling in "Half Nelson": 20/1

Peter O’Toole in "Venus": 16/5

Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness": 16/1

Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland": 1/11

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:

Penélope Cruz in "Volver": 18/1

Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal": 15/1

Helen Mirren in "The Queen": 1/50

Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada": 10/1

Kate Winslet in "Little Children": 20/1

Best Animated Feature Film:

"Cars": 1/3

"Happy Feet": 2/1

"Monster House": 20/1

Best Foreign-Language Film of the Year:

"Water" – Canada: 22/1

"The Lives of Others" – Germany: 7/2

"After the Wedding" - Denmark: 24/1

"Days of Glory (Indigenes)" – Algeria: 23/1

"Pan's Labyrinth" - Mexico: 1/10

Odds to win the Best Live-Action Short Film:

"Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)": 6/5

"Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)": 7/2

"Helmer & Son": 5/2

"The Saviour": 6/1

"West Bank Story": 7/2

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"Babel": 7/4

"Letters From Iwo Jima": 3/1

"Little Miss Sunshine": 21/20

"Pan's Labyrinth": 11/4

"The Queen": 5/4

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

"Babel": 11/4

"The Departed": 1/2

"Letters from Iwo Jima": 15/2

"Little Miss Sunshine": 17/10

"The Queen": 20/1

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:

Alan Arkin in "Little Miss Sunshine": 11/10

Jackie Earle Haley in "Little Children": 10/1

Djimon Hounsou in "Blood Diamond": 9/1

Eddie Murphy in "Dreamgirls": 2/5

Mark Wahlberg in "The Departed": 5/1

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:

Adriana Barraza in "Babel": 14/1

Cate Blanchett in "Notes on a Scandal": 11/1

Abigail Breslin in "Little Miss Sunshine": 2/1

Jennifer Hudson in "Dreamgirls": 1/8

Rinko Kikuchi in "Babel": 11/1

Film To Win Most Oscars:

Dreamgirls: 2/3

Pans Labyrinth: 6/5

The Departed: 6/1

The Queen: 11/1

Babel: 15/1

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: 11/1

Little Miss Sunshine: 15/1


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