Pittsburgh Pirates (58-75, fifth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (65-68, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
St. Louis; Wednesday, 7:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Carmen Mlodzinski (3-7, 3.89 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Cardinals: Sonny Gray (12-6, 4.33 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 161 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals square off against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
St. Louis has a 36-31 record in home games and a 65-68 record overall. The Cardinals have the 10th-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.33.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh has a 58-75 record overall and a 19-45 record on the road. The Pirates are 19-52 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Wednesday for the 12th time this season. The Pirates lead the season series 6-5.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Alec Burleson leads the Cardinals with a .291 batting average, and has 21 doubles, a triple, 16 home runs, 33 walks and 60 RBIs. Lars Nootbaar is 11 for 41 with three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Bryan Reynolds has 34 doubles, three triples and 14 home runs for the Pirates. Jared Triolo is 14 for 33 with three doubles, a triple and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 4-6, .240 batting average, 6.21 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n
Pirates: 6-4, .266 batting average, 2.79 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Cardinals: Brendan Donovan: 10-Day IL (groin), Victor Scott II: 10-Day IL (ankle), Nolan Arenado: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Zack Thompson: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n
Pirates: Endy Rodriguez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Enmanuel Valdez: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Lawrence: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tim Mayza: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jared Jones: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates (58-75, fifth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (65-68, fourth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[1894,5,4492,5343,981,1148,5627,7884,308,1179,4,376,1028,10,776,64,4297,1587,673,67,364,5942,5422],"class_list":{"0":"post-275494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-alec-burleson","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brendan-donovan","11":"tag-bryan-reynolds","12":"tag-carmen-mlodzinski","13":"tag-enmanuel-valdez","14":"tag-jared-jones","15":"tag-jared-triolo","16":"tag-justin-lawrence","17":"tag-lars-nootbaar","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-nl-central","20":"tag-nolan-arenado","21":"tag-pirates","22":"tag-pittsburgh","23":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","24":"tag-pittsburghpirates","25":"tag-sonny-gray","26":"tag-st-louis","27":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","28":"tag-tim-mayza","29":"tag-victor-scott-ii","30":"tag-zack-thompson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115100013371723615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}