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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (60-46, second in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (53-53, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Colin Rea (7-7, 4.85 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 81 strikeouts); Cardinals: Michael McGreevy<\/a> (4-8, 3.07 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -116, Cardinals -106; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs play the St. Louis Cardinals after Nico Hoerner<\/a> had four hits on Monday in a 7-3 win over the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 53-53 record overall and a 27-30 record at home. The Cardinals have the fifth-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.15.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 30-24 record on the road and a 60-46 record overall. The Cubs rank 10th in the majors with 133 total home runs, averaging 1.3 per game.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Tuesday for the eighth time this season. The Cardinals are ahead 4-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 22 home runs while slugging .508. Jimmy Crooks III is 5 for 20 with two home runs and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> has a .288 batting average to lead the Cubs, and has 19 doubles, six triples and 23 home runs. Hoerner is 19 for 44 with a home run and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 2-8, .220 batting average, 4.59 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

Cubs: 6-4, .283 batting average, 3.16 ERA, outscored opponents by 28 runs<\/p>\n

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

Cubs: Hoby Milner: 15-Day IL (appendicitis), Edward Cabrera<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), 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), 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 (60-46, second in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (53-53, 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":[5,734,160,24,888,4914,75686,4156,8534,4679,393,19,716,74862,4392,4,33,35,4397,889,27260,849,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-763532","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-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-jojo-romero","tag-jordan-walker","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-max-rajcic","tag-michael-mcgreevy","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","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\/116996788965262711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763532","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=763532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763532\/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=763532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}