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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (28-21, third in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (26-24, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Friday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Kyle Leahy<\/a> (5-3, 3.94 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, 34 strikeouts); Reds: Chris Paddack<\/a> (0-5, 7.07 ERA, 1.63 WHIP, 30 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Reds -111, Cardinals -108; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds play the St. Louis Cardinals after Sal Stewart<\/a> had four hits on Wednesday in a 9-4 win over the Phillies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a 13-11 record at home and a 26-24 record overall. Reds hitters have a collective .394 slugging percentage to rank 10th in the majors.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has gone 15-8 in road games and 28-21 overall. Cardinals pitchers have a collective 4.25 ERA, which ranks 10th in the NL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Stewart has nine doubles and 12 home runs while hitting .265 for the Reds. JJ Bleday<\/a> is 13 for 37 with four doubles, a triple and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 13 home runs while slugging .563. Ivan Herrera<\/a> is 10 for 42 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 5-5, .272 batting average, 5.01 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.01 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Caleb Ferguson: 15-Day IL (oblique), Jose Trevino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Rhett Lowder: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Eugenio Suarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Nathan Church: 10-Day IL (undisclosed), 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 (28-21, third in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds (26-24, fifth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,12054,160,752,50,1105,92,75686,2102,6012,1952,4679,1176,4396,19,4,6513,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-705636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cardinals","tag-chris-paddack","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-ivan-herrera","tag-jj-bleday","tag-jordan-walker","tag-jose-trevino","tag-kyle-leahy","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sal-stewart","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116617685465384053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705636","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=705636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}