Alec Burleson Total Hits Props • St. Louis

The wind projects to be blowing in from CF at 9.2-mph in this contest, the most-favorable of the day for hurlers. Playing on the road generally weakens hitter metrics in all categories due to the lack of home field advantage, which should be the case for Alec Burleson today. Based on Statcast metrics, the leading projection system (THE BAT X)'s version of Expected Batting Average (.264) suggests that Alec Burleson has been very fortunate this year with his .293 actual batting average.