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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (21-15, second in the NL Central) vs. San Diego Padres<\/a> (22-14, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Thursday, 10:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (1-1, 4.50 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 23 strikeouts); Padres: Michael King (3-2, 2.95 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 39 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Padres -177, Cardinals +148; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres host the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday to begin a four-game series.<\/p>\n

San Diego has a 22-14 record overall and an 11-8 record at home. The Padres have gone 15-1 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 21-15 record overall and an 11-5 record in road games. The Cardinals rank ninth in MLB<\/a> play with 44 total home runs, averaging 1.2 per game.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Xander Bogaerts<\/a> has a .276 batting average to lead the Padres, and has two doubles and seven home runs. Miguel Andujar<\/a> is 12 for 39 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with a .303 batting average, and has six doubles, 10 home runs, 16 walks and 27 RBIs. Alec Burleson<\/a> is 12 for 40 with two home runs and 12 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 4-6, .234 batting average, 5.73 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 7-3, .249 batting average, 3.50 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Padres: Jake Cronenworth: 7-Day IL (concussion), Will Wagner<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), German Marquez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jhony Brito: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Pivetta: 15-Day IL (elbow), Joe Musgrove: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Ramon Urias<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Matt Pushard<\/a>: 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 (21-15, second in the NL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (22-14, second in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1894,5,160,75686,4679,19,60710,1453,4808,4,914,18,673,67,4311,4310,1276,1821],"class_list":["post-692548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-alec-burleson","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-event_preview","tag-jordan-walker","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-pushard","tag-matthew-liberatore","tag-miguel-andujar","tag-mlb","tag-ramon-urias","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-will-wagner","tag-xander-bogaerts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116532585659858842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692548","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=692548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}