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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (51-45, third in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (49-48, second in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Dustin May<\/a> (5-6, 4.55 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 89 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Brandon Pfaadt<\/a> (3-1, 4.70 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 41 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Diamondbacks -116, Cardinals -105; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals face the Arizona Diamondbacks leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Arizona has a 49-48 record overall and a 27-21 record in home games. The Diamondbacks are 21-8 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has gone 25-19 in road games and 51-45 overall. The Cardinals have a 36-14 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the fifth time this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Geraldo Perdomo<\/a> has 13 doubles, three triples and six home runs for the Diamondbacks. Tim Tawa<\/a> is 9 for 24 with three doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> has 19 doubles and 22 home runs for the Cardinals. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 10 for 36 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 6-4, .229 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 4-6, .186 batting average, 3.74 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Tommy Troy: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Zac Gallen<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Mike Soroka: 15-Day IL (lower body), James McCann<\/a>: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Lawlar<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Justin Martinez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: JoJo Romero<\/a>: 15-Day IL (appendix), Max Rajcic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (51-45, third in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (49-48, second in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[13491,146,22,4314,5,7905,654,97,38,126,75686,1533,1198,18050,8534,543,4679,651,19,74862,4,5938,67,4622,86],"class_list":["post-754925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-walston","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dustin-may","tag-event_preview","tag-geraldo-perdomo","tag-james-mccann","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-jojo-romero","tag-jordan-lawlar","tag-jordan-walker","tag-justin-martinez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-rajcic","tag-mlb","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tim-tawa","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116940272014453334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754925","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=754925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}