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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (35-28, second in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (29-36, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Dustin May<\/a> (3-6, 4.59 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 60 strikeouts); Mets: Freddy Peralta<\/a> (4-4, 3.63 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -131, Cardinals +110; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets take on the St. Louis Cardinals after Carson Benge’s<\/a> five-hit game on Sunday.<\/p>\n

New York is 29-36 overall and 15-15 at home. The Mets rank ninth in the NL with 67 total home runs, averaging 1.0 per game.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 35-28 record overall and a 16-12 record in road games. Cardinals hitters are batting a collective .242, which ranks eighth in the NL.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Juan Soto<\/a> leads the Mets with 18 extra base hits (four doubles, a triple and 13 home runs). Benge is 15 for 41 with two doubles, a triple, four home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Alec Burleson<\/a> has 16 doubles, eight home runs and 43 RBIs while hitting .290 for the Cardinals. Jordan Walker<\/a> is 14 for 42 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 7-3, .250 batting average, 2.63 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 6-4, .263 batting average, 3.13 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Francisco Alvarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Francisco Lindor: 10-Day IL (calf), Kodai Senga<\/a>: 15-Day IL (spinal lumbar ), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Tyrone Taylor: 10-Day IL (hip), Luis Robert<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Clay Holmes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (fibula), Ronny Mauricio<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Ryan Fernandez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ramon Urias: 10-Day IL (elbow), Nathan Church: 10-Day IL (lower body)<\/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 (35-28, second in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets (29-36, fifth in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1894,5,160,5805,1712,126,75686,1347,753,4679,120,134,25115,1716,999,19,4,61,4804,18209,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-721330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-alec-burleson","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-carson-benge","tag-clay-holmes","tag-dustin-may","tag-event_preview","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-jordan-walker","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kodai-senga","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-ronny-mauricio","tag-ryan-fernandez","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116719288555617550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721330","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=721330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721330\/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=721330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}