{"id":650200,"date":"2026-03-29T09:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650200\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:24:23","slug":"cardinals-try-to-sweep-series-against-the-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/650200\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals try to sweep series against the Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/tampa-bay-rays-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (0-2) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/st-louis-cardinals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (2-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">St. Louis; Sunday, 2:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/steven-matz-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Matz<\/a> (0-0); Cardinals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/dustin-may-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin May<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rays -118, Cardinals -101; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals will try to sweep a three-game series with a victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">St. Louis had a 78-84 record overall and a 44-37 record in home games last season. The Cardinals scored 4.3 runs per game in the 2025 season while giving up 4.7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Tampa Bay had a 77-85 record overall and a 36-45 record in road games last season. The Rays scored 4.4 runs per game in the 2025 season while allowing 4.2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Cardinals: Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (knee), Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Rays: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/steven-wilson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/edwin-uceta-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/ryan-pepiot-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/manuel-rodriguez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Taylor Walls: 10-Day IL (oblique)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays (0-2) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (2-0) St. Louis; Sunday, 2:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,126,6925,75686,19,1095,4,1956,673,67,1555,4274,4311,4310,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-650200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-dustin-may","11":"tag-edwin-uceta","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-major-league-baseball","14":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-ryan-pepiot","17":"tag-st-louis","18":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","19":"tag-steven-matz","20":"tag-steven-wilson","21":"tag-stlouis","22":"tag-stlouiscardinals","23":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116311743752819130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650200","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=650200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}