{"id":656233,"date":"2026-04-01T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:57:20","slug":"cardinals-take-on-the-mets-with-series-tied-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656233\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals take on the Mets with series tied 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Mets<\/a> (3-2) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (3-2)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Wednesday, 1:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Freddy Peralta<\/a> (1-0, 7.20 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, seven strikeouts); Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (0-0, 1.80 ERA, 1.80 WHIP, two strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Mets -165, Cardinals +139; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets play on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

St. Louis went 78-84 overall and 44-37 at home a season ago. The Cardinals scored 4.3 runs per game while giving up 4.7 in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

New York had an 83-79 record overall and a 34-47 record on the road last season. The Mets pitching staff had a collective 4.03 ERA while averaging 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Matt Pushard: 15-Day IL (knee), Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (knee), Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels)<\/p>\n

Mets: A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib fracture), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Mets (3-2) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (3-2) St. Louis; Wednesday, 1:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,75686,753,25115,19,1453,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-656233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-freddy-peralta","11":"tag-justin-hagenman","12":"tag-major-league-baseball","13":"tag-matthew-liberatore","14":"tag-mets","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-mets","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkmets","20":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116328624624596565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656233","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=656233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656233\/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=656233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}