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The Arizona Diamondbacks aims to improve further their record in the young Major League Baseball season when they play host to the struggling St. Louis Cardinals team on Wednesday evening.Sporting a 5-5 record, the home-team Arizona Cardinals is favored to win over the St. Louis Cardinals in their scheduled MLB game.

Having beaten the St., Louis Cardinals in four of six meetings, the Arizona Cardinals are very confident of their chances against the visiting MLB team.Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson is confident if his team will continue to play hard there is no reason why they will lose this game.

To defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks starting right handed pitcher Ian Kennedy need to continue his brilliant play this year.Kennedy (1-0, 2.57), had a  promising start this year after yielding one run and six hits in eight innings of a 13-2 win over Cincinnati on Saturday.

He struck out nine.The right-hander, who finished last season 3-1 with a 2.13 ERA over his final nine starts, has picked up where he left off with a strong beginning to 2011.Aside from Kennedy the rest of the Diamondbacks teams also need to play huge to bring down the Cardinals in their game.

The favorite Diamondbacks can avoid defeat if they will  play as a team and perform with 110 percent intensity come game-time.The visiting Cardinals will be in for a tough challenge against the home-team Diamondbacks.To defeat the Diamondbacks, the Cardinal need to score and stop the home-team from scoring big in this game.

Cardinals superstar Albert Pujols need to score runs for his team for bring down the Diamondbacks.The dependable pitcher of the Cardinals Jake Westbrook also need to pitch huge for his team to defeat the Diamondbacks.

The underdog Cardinals can surprise and defeat the Diamondbacks if they can play with their A-game on game day.