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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (43-38, third in the NL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (49-33, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Tuesday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (3-5, 5.56 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez<\/a> (6-4, 3.00 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 60 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Braves -163, Cardinals +133; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 49-33 record overall and a 24-14 record in home games. Braves pitchers have a collective 3.42 ERA, which ranks third in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 43-38 record overall and a 20-17 record on the road. The Cardinals have the eighth-ranked team batting average in the NL at .246.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Harris II<\/a> has 13 doubles and 14 home runs for the Braves. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 13 for 41 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with a .290 batting average, and has 16 doubles, 18 home runs, 24 walks and 58 RBIs. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 13 for 43 with two home runs and three RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Braves: 3-7, .205 batting average, 3.87 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 3-7, .249 batting average, 5.73 ERA, outscored by 24 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ronald Acuna<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Kyle Farmer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Danny Young<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Ryan Fernandez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ramon Urias: 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":"St. Louis Cardinals (43-38, third in the NL Central) vs. Atlanta Braves (49-33, first in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[46,5,160,1563,75686,18050,10367,4679,9978,19,370,1453,3617,661,4,80,921,18209,656,659,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-739283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jordan-walker","tag-kyle-farmer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-matthew-liberatore","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-ryan-fernandez","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116838055484206942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739283","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=739283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}