The St. Louis Cardinals have won five of their last six games while the Milwaukee Brewers have dropped four of their last five.

The Kansas City Royals have won five of their last six games and tonight’s starting pitcher Danny Duffy (2-0, 1.80 ERA) has been excellent his his three starts this season, allowing just four runs on 14 hits through 20 innings of work.

The Toronto Blue Jays are an MLB-worst 2-11 on the season, but at least their bats came alive in yesterday’s 8-7 loss in the opener of this three-game series against the Boston Red Sox.

The Chicago Cubs (6-7) are suffering from a massive World Champion hangover and they enter Tuesday’s contest as losers of four straight following a 6-3 loss to Milwaukee last night.

The Pittsburgh Pirates scored a total of 18 runs while sweeping a three-game set against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field over the weekend. I like them to open this three-game series at St. Louis with a win Monday night.

The Cleveland Indians recorded 19 hits in Saturday’s 13-6 win against Detroit, and I like their bats to stay hot here in the rubber-match of this three-game set.

The Boston Red Sox are coming off a 4-3 win against Pittsburgh and have alternated wins and losses through their last six games, but tonight they’ll host a Tampa Bay Rays side that is coming off three straight losses to the Yankees.

Vince Velasquez (0-1, 9.00 ERA) takes the ball for the Phillies. He lasted only four innings of a 7-6 loss against Washington in his season debut, but struck out 10 while allowing four runs on five hits (two homers).

The White Sox hand the ball to left-hander Jose Quintana (0-1, 10.13 ERA) who was roughed up by the Tigers in his season debut, but he’s bound to bounce back with a big performance here.

The Toronto Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Rays have split the first two games of this four-game set.