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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (16-13, third in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (16-14, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Andre Pallante<\/a> (2-2, 4.26 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 20 strikeouts); Pirates: Bubba Chandler (1-2, 4.88 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 21 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -150, Cardinals +126; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates aim to stop their three-game slide when they take on the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 16-14 overall and 8-7 at home. The Pirates have a 9-5 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 16-13 record overall and a 9-5 record on the road. The Cardinals have a 12-4 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Oneil Cruz<\/a> leads the Pirates with nine home runs while slugging .538. Ryan O’Hearn<\/a> is 11 for 36 with two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Alec Burleson<\/a> has eight doubles and three home runs for the Cardinals. Nathan Church<\/a> is 11 for 37 with four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, .226 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 5-5, .244 batting average, 4.65 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Jared Triolo: 10-Day IL (knee), Jared Jones<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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 (16-13, third in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (16-14, fifth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1894,1181,5,160,75686,5627,19,4,41261,1330,64,626,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-685736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-st-louis-cardinals","7":"tag-alec-burleson","8":"tag-andre-pallante","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cardinals","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-jared-jones","13":"tag-major-league-baseball","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nathan-church","16":"tag-oneil-cruz","17":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","18":"tag-ryan-ohearn","19":"tag-st-louis","20":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","21":"tag-stlouis","22":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116487357926501930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685736","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=685736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}