{"id":735066,"date":"2026-06-25T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:54:21","slug":"diamondbacks-play-the-cardinals-leading-series-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735066\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks play the Cardinals leading series 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (41-39, third in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (42-36, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Thursday, 7:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Zac Gallen<\/a> (3-6, 6.10 ERA, 1.63 WHIP, 52 strikeouts); Cardinals: Michael McGreevy<\/a> (3-6, 3.35 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 53 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -134, Diamondbacks +110; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks take a 2-1 lead into the next game of the series against the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 42-36 overall and 22-19 in home games. The Cardinals have gone 32-14 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Arizona has a 41-39 record overall and a 17-22 record on the road. The Diamondbacks have the ninth-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.29.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Alec Burleson<\/a> has 20 doubles, a triple and 13 home runs for the Cardinals. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 14 for 44 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Corbin Carroll<\/a> leads the Diamondbacks with a .279 batting average, and has 17 doubles, nine triples, 13 home runs, 36 walks and 42 RBIs. Ketel Marte<\/a> is 14 for 39 with two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 4-6, .266 batting average, 5.48 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: 6-4, .249 batting average, 4.85 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Ryan Fernandez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: Mike Soroka: 15-Day IL (lower body), Jordan Lawlar<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McCann<\/a>: 10-Day IL (quadricep), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Martinez<\/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":"Arizona Diamondbacks (41-39, third in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (42-36, second in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[1894,13491,146,22,4314,5,7905,97,1538,38,75686,1198,18050,543,651,729,19,4392,4,18209,5938,67,86],"class_list":["post-735066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-alec-burleson","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-walston","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-diamondbacks","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mccann","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-jordan-lawlar","tag-justin-martinez","tag-ketel-marte","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-mcgreevy","tag-mlb","tag-ryan-fernandez","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116809909107761409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735066","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=735066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735066\/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=735066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}