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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (70-71, third in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies<\/a> (54-86, fifth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Denver; Friday, 8:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Andre Pallante<\/a> (0-0); Rockies: Ryan Feltner<\/a> (5-9, 5.84 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 76 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -137, Rockies +112; over\/under is 11 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Rockies start a three-game series at home against the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.<\/p>\n

Colorado has a 54-86 record overall and a 29-39 record at home. The Rockies have a 37-68 record in games when they have given up at least one home run.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 70-71 record overall and a 36-33 record in road games. The Cardinals have a 48-15 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the fourth time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake McCarthy<\/a> has 29 doubles, eight triples and 14 home runs for the Rockies. Troy Johnston<\/a> is 9 for 24 with three doubles, a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with a .289 batting average, and has 32 doubles, 28 home runs, 43 walks and 99 RBIs. Ivan Herrera<\/a> is 11 for 39 with three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockies: 4-6, .260 batting average, 3.89 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 4-6, .259 batting average, 5.74 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockies: Kris Bryant: 60-Day IL (back), Kyle Karros<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Ryan Feltner: day-to-day (illness), Kyle Freeland<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Sean Sullivan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jose Quintana: 60-Day IL (elbow), Welinton Herrera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chase Dollander: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (forearm), JJ Wetherholt: 10-Day IL (wrist), Blaze Jordan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Masyn Winn: 10-Day IL (thumb), Peter Strzelecki<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Andre Pallante: 15-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 (70-71, third in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (54-86, fifth in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1181,5,19003,160,52,75686,10857,6012,3917,4679,1022,39318,19,74862,42377,4,29578,1945,39325,673,67,4311,4310,22739,56859],"class_list":["post-796352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-andre-pallante","tag-baseball","tag-blaze-jordan","tag-cardinals","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-ivan-herrera","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-jordan-walker","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-karros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-rajcic","tag-mccade-brown","tag-mlb","tag-peter-strzelecki","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-troy-johnston","tag-welinton-herrera"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117212369582300602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796352","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=796352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796352\/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=796352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}