{"id":717833,"date":"2026-06-05T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/717833\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:30:19","slug":"cardinals-begin-3-game-series-at-home-against-the-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/717833\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals begin 3-game series at home against the Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (31-30, fifth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (32-28, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Brady Singer<\/a> (2-5, 6.18 ERA, 1.69 WHIP, 36 strikeouts); Cardinals: Kyle Leahy<\/a> (5-3, 4.25 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 46 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -141, Reds +119; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals open a three-game series at home against the Cincinnati Reds on Friday.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 32-28 record overall and a 16-16 record in home games. The Cardinals have the 10th-ranked team batting average in the NL at .240.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a 31-30 record overall and a 15-14 record on the road. The Reds are 14-5 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jordan Walker<\/a> has a .291 batting average to lead the Cardinals, and has 11 doubles and 15 home runs. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 12 for 41 with an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Sal Stewart<\/a> has 12 doubles and 12 home runs for the Reds. JJ Bleday<\/a> is 12 for 41 with two doubles, four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 3-7, .231 batting average, 3.98 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Reds: 5-5, .239 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels), Ramon Urias: 10-Day IL (elbow), Nathan Church: 10-Day IL (lower body)<\/p>\n

Reds: Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Elly De La Cruz<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Pierce Johnson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Rhett Lowder: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ke’Bryan Hayes: 10-Day IL (back), Jose Trevino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Cincinnati Reds (31-30, fifth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (32-28, third 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":[5,757,12054,160,50,1177,1105,75686,2102,1952,18050,4679,1176,4396,19,4,6513,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-717833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-brady-singer","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cardinals","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-jj-bleday","tag-jj-wetherholt","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\/116696568493767886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717833","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=717833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717833\/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=717833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}