{"id":664374,"date":"2026-04-05T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664374\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:00:21","slug":"tigers-aim-to-sweep-series-against-the-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664374\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers aim to sweep series against the Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (4-4) vs. Detroit Tigers<\/a> (4-4)<\/p>\n

Detroit; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Kyle Leahy<\/a> (0-1, 7.20 ERA, 2.00 WHIP, one strikeout); Tigers: Keider Montero<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers -140, Cardinals +118; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Tigers play the St. Louis Cardinals looking to sweep their three-game series.<\/p>\n

Detroit had an 87-75 record overall and a 46-35 record at home last season. The Tigers slugged .413 with a .730 OPS as a team in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

St. Louis had a 78-84 record overall and a 34-47 record in road games last season. The Cardinals pitching staff had a collective 4.29 ERA while averaging 7.6 strikeouts per nine innings in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Tigers: Justin Verlander: 15-Day IL (hip inflammation), Trey Sweeney: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Bailey Horn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Sawyer Gipson-Long: 15-Day IL (oblique), Reese Olson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Jobe<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Troy Melton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Beau Brieske<\/a>: 60-Day IL (groin)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Matt Pushard: 15-Day IL (knee), Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (knee), Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels)<\/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":"St. Louis Cardinals (4-4) vs. Detroit Tigers (4-4) Detroit; Sunday, 7:20 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Kyle Leahy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[29375,5,2259,147,53,2583,75686,713,6671,19,4,768,594,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-664374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-bailey-horn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-beau-brieske","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-detroit-tigers","13":"tag-detroittigers","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-jackson-jobe","16":"tag-keider-montero","17":"tag-major-league-baseball","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-reese-olson","20":"tag-tigers","21":"tag-troy-melton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116351523682011800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664374","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=664374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664374\/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=664374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}