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Through April the Cubs and St Louis were sitting tied in the NL Central Many expected the Cubs at the top throught the first month and not the Cardinals with them. The Card starting pitching was atrocious last season but this season has been a bit of a turnaround for this unit. Wellemeyer is a converted reliever who was inserted into the starting rotation last year and really hasn't pitched many innings in his career at any level of baseball. Wellemeyer struggled in his last 2 starts giving up 8 earned runs and 14 hits over 12 innings pitched. The Cubs lead baseball in runs scored averaging 6.3 per game and hit well as a team at .286. Jason Marquis was hit hard in his last start versus Milwaukee giving up 10 hits in 5 innings of work. The Cubs are hitting, Marquis allows base runners and the Cubs bullpen is struggling right now. That will add up to offense on Sunday. Play this one over 9 runs.