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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (55-33, first in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (47-40, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Shane Drohan<\/a> (3-2, 3.12 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 59 strikeouts); Cardinals: Dustin May<\/a> (5-6, 4.80 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 78 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -120, Cardinals -102; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Milwaukee Brewers to open a five-game series.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 47-40 record overall and a 23-21 record at home. The Cardinals have hit 99 total home runs to rank 10th in the NL.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has a 26-15 record on the road and a 55-33 record overall. Brewers pitchers have a collective 3.35 ERA, which leads MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The matchup Monday is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Brewers hold a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Alec Burleson<\/a> has 20 doubles, a triple and 14 home runs for the Cardinals. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 12 for 42 with a double and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brice Turang<\/a> has 20 doubles, three triples and 12 home runs while hitting .268 for the Brewers. Jackson Chourio<\/a> is 12 for 40 with two doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 5-5, .238 batting average, 3.27 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n

Brewers: 6-4, .265 batting average, 3.13 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Dustin May: day-to-day (ankle), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Joel Kuhnel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Rob Zastryzny: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Logan Henderson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Coleman Crow: 15-Day IL (forearm), Brandon Lockridge<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Brian Fitzpatrick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), D.L. Hall: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Quinn Priester: 60-Day IL (wrist), Angel Zerpa: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/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":"Milwaukee Brewers (55-33, first in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (47-40, third in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,868,127,60253,3800,160,14963,75686,3875,29620,10679,19,59,4,44914,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-744457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lockridge","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-brice-turang","tag-cardinals","tag-carlos-rodriguez","tag-event_preview","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-joel-kuhnel","tag-logan-henderson","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-shane-drohan","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116872076473198606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744457","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=744457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744457\/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=744457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}