{"id":760129,"date":"2026-07-24T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/760129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:21:17","slug":"cardinals-host-the-reds-to-begin-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/760129\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals host the Reds to begin 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (47-54, fifth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (52-50, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Rhett Lowder<\/a> (3-7, 5.75 ERA, 1.64 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Cardinals: Dustin May<\/a> (5-7, 4.78 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 95 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -169, Reds +138; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Cincinnati Reds to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has gone 26-27 in home games and 52-50 overall. The Cardinals have the eighth-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .317.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a 47-54 record overall and a 25-26 record in road games. The Reds have hit 134 total home runs to rank fourth in the NL.<\/p>\n

The teams play Friday for the sixth time this season. The Cardinals are ahead 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jordan Walker<\/a> has 22 doubles and 22 home runs for the Cardinals. Alec Burleson<\/a> is 13 for 39 with three doubles over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

JJ Bleday<\/a> has 11 doubles, a triple, 17 home runs and 44 RBIs for the Reds. Eugenio Suarez<\/a> is 8 for 37 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 4-6, .214 batting average, 3.92 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Reds: 5-5, .244 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Pedro Pages: day-to-day (illness), JoJo Romero: 15-Day IL (appendix), Max Rajcic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Reds: Blake Dunn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), Nick Lodolo: 15-Day IL (finger), Matt McLain<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tony Santillan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 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":"Cincinnati Reds (47-54, fifth in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (52-50, fourth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1894,5,7026,12054,160,50,126,92,75686,1952,4679,19,1401,74862,4,6967,673,67,4311,4310,12475],"class_list":["post-760129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-alec-burleson","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cardinals","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-dustin-may","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-event_preview","tag-jj-bleday","tag-jordan-walker","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-mclain","tag-max-rajcic","tag-mlb","tag-rhett-lowder","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-tony-santillan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116974458183569103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760129","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=760129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760129\/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=760129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}