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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (23-15, second in the NL Central) vs. San Diego Padres<\/a> (22-16, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n

San Diego; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Dustin May<\/a> (3-3, 5.15 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 25 strikeouts); Padres: Randy Vasquez<\/a> (3-1, 3.20 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 36 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Padres -146, Cardinals +122; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals take on the San Diego Padres after Ivan Herrera<\/a> had four hits on Friday in a 6-0 win over the Padres.<\/p>\n

San Diego is 22-16 overall and 11-10 at home. The Padres are 15-2 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 23-15 record overall and a 13-5 record on the road. The Cardinals have hit 45 total home runs to rank 10th in the majors.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Xander Bogaerts<\/a> leads the Padres with seven home runs while slugging .440. Miguel Andujar<\/a> is 10 for 37 with two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 10 home runs while slugging .576. Herrera is 13 for 38 with five doubles and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 3-7, .185 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 8-2, .257 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n

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

Cardinals: Matt Pushard: 15-Day IL (knee), Ramon Urias: 10-Day IL (elbow), 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 (23-15, second in the NL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (22-16, second in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,126,75686,6012,872,4679,12913,19,4808,4,43,7940,137,18,4339,4338,67,1821],"class_list":{"0":"post-694267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-san-diego-padres","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-dustin-may","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-ivan-herrera","11":"tag-jake-cronenworth","12":"tag-jordan-walker","13":"tag-luis-campusano","14":"tag-major-league-baseball","15":"tag-miguel-andujar","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-padres","18":"tag-randy-vasquez","19":"tag-san-diego","20":"tag-san-diego-padres","21":"tag-sandiego","22":"tag-sandiegopadres","23":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","24":"tag-xander-bogaerts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116543898473481923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694267","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=694267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}