{"id":783659,"date":"2026-08-20T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/783659\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:39:17","slug":"cincinnati-reds-face-the-st-louis-cardinals-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/783659\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds face the St. Louis Cardinals Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (65-63, third in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (61-66, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Thursday, 12:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Michael McGreevy<\/a> (5-9, 3.48 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 91 strikeouts); Reds: Brady Singer<\/a> (5-11, 4.66 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 104 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -115, Reds +101; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds host the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a 61-66 record overall and a 32-35 record in home games. The Reds have gone 25-15 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 33-29 record in road games and a 65-63 record overall. The Cardinals have gone 32-21 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the 13th time these teams match up this season. The Cardinals are ahead 7-5 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Sal Stewart<\/a> has 24 doubles and 27 home runs for the Reds. Eugenio Suarez<\/a> is 8 for 34 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Alec Burleson<\/a> has 33 doubles, a triple and 21 home runs while hitting .289 for the Cardinals. Joshua Baez<\/a> is 4 for 22 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 5-5, .192 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 6-4, .235 batting average, 2.45 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Tony Santillan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Dunn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Steer: 10-Day IL (wrist)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Ramon Urias<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Rajcic<\/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":"St. Louis Cardinals (65-63, third in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds (61-66, fifth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1894,5,7026,757,12054,160,50,92,75686,2102,29990,19,74862,4392,4,914,6513,673,67,4311,4310,12475],"class_list":["post-783659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-alec-burleson","tag-baseball","tag-blake-dunn","tag-brady-singer","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cardinals","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-joshua-baez","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-rajcic","tag-michael-mcgreevy","tag-mlb","tag-ramon-urias","tag-sal-stewart","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-tony-santillan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117127647320971041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783659","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=783659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}