{"id":749626,"date":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/749626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:54:18","slug":"cardinals-aim-to-sweep-3-game-series-over-the-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/749626\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals aim to sweep 3-game series over the Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (54-40, first in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (50-44, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Sunday, 2:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: JR Ritchie<\/a> (1-2, 4.60 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 42 strikeouts); Cardinals: Dustin May<\/a> (5-6, 4.55 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 85 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -137, Braves +113; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals face the Atlanta Braves looking to sweep their three-game series.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 26-25 record at home and a 50-44 record overall. Cardinals hitters are batting a collective .243, which ranks 10th in the NL.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has a 27-22 record on the road and a 54-40 record overall. The Braves have a 39-9 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Sunday is the sixth time these teams square off this season. The Cardinals hold a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 22 home runs while slugging .534. Nathan Church<\/a> is 5 for 35 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Michael Harris II<\/a> leads the Braves with a .300 batting average, and has 16 doubles, 16 home runs, 15 walks and 53 RBIs. Mauricio Dubon<\/a> is 11 for 39 with two home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 5-5, .217 batting average, 3.24 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Braves: 4-6, .246 batting average, 5.42 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Max Rajcic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Braves: Martin Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ronald Acuna<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 60-Day IL (finger), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), AJ Smith-Shawver: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Atlanta Braves (54-40, first in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (50-44, 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":[46,5,160,75686,10367,28293,19,370,3617,661,4,80,921,656,659,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-749626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-event_preview","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jr-ritchie","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-martin-perez","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-mlb","tag-robert-suarez","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","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\/116906168391569788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749626","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=749626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749626\/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=749626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}