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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (59-46, second in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (53-52, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: David Peterson<\/a> (5-7, 5.97 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 74 strikeouts); Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (5-7, 5.18 ERA, 1.51 WHIP, 95 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -117, Cardinals -105; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Chicago Cubs on Monday to open a four-game series.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 53-52 overall and 27-29 at home. The Cardinals have the fifth-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.12.<\/p>\n

Chicago has gone 29-24 in road games and 59-46 overall. Cubs hitters have a collective .339 on-base percentage, the second-best percentage in the majors.<\/p>\n

The matchup Monday is the seventh time these teams match up this season. The Cardinals hold a 4-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jordan Walker<\/a> has 23 doubles and 22 home runs while hitting .286 for the Cardinals. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 8 for 41 with two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> leads the Cubs with a .290 batting average, and has 19 doubles, six triples, 23 home runs, 53 walks and 60 RBIs. Michael Busch<\/a> is 15 for 45 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 3-7, .223 batting average, 4.18 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Cubs: 6-4, .273 batting average, 3.26 ERA, outscored opponents by 28 runs<\/p>\n

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

Cubs: Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Shaw<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Phil Maton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Ethan Roberts: 15-Day IL (forearm), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Daniel Palencia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Hoby Milner: 15-Day IL (appendicitis), Edward Cabrera<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Ben Brown<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 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":"Chicago Cubs (59-46, second in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (53-52, 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":[5,734,160,24,888,759,4914,75686,4156,18050,4679,393,19,716,1453,74862,37,4,35,4397,889,27260,849,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-762658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-cardinals","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-david-peterson","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-jordan-walker","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-matthew-liberatore","tag-max-rajcic","tag-michael-busch","tag-mlb","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-shelby-miller","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116991103049292276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762658","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=762658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762658\/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=762658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}