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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (63-89, fourth in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (75-77, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Wednesday, 1:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Anthony Molina<\/a> (3-1, 5.24 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 19 strikeouts); Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (5-14, 5.53 ERA, 1.49 WHIP, 146 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -162, Giants +133; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants play on Wednesday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 75-77 overall and 37-40 at home. Cardinals hitters have a collective .316 on-base percentage, the eighth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 63-89 record overall and a 27-50 record in road games. The Giants have gone 15-27 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the sixth time this season. The Giants are up 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ivan Herrera<\/a> has 25 doubles, a triple and 16 home runs for the Cardinals. Leonardo Bernal is 12 for 41 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 4-6, .257 batting average, 4.90 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 5-5, .241 batting average, 3.80 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: JJ Wetherholt: 10-Day IL (wrist), Blaze Jordan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Peter Strzelecki<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Max Rajcic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (forearm), Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand)<\/p>\n

Giants: Rafael Devers<\/a>: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Adrian Houser<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Victor Bericoto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), J.T. Brubaker: 15-Day IL (ribs), Marcelo Mayer<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Jesus Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Willy Adames: 10-Day IL (elbow), Keaton Winn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Gage<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sam Hentges<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Casey Schmitt: 60-Day IL (leg), Carson Whisenhunt: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Daniel Susac: 60-Day IL (knee), Trevor McDonald<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (leg), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/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":"San Francisco Giants (63-89, fourth in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (75-77, fourth in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[11710,4706,5,19003,160,75686,10857,365,6012,16008,44621,40915,19,1248,379,12022,1453,74862,4,29578,863,12859,70335,9115,66,673,67,4311,4310,48585,72305],"class_list":["post-806374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-adrian-houser","tag-anthony-molina","tag-baseball","tag-blaze-jordan","tag-cardinals","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-harrison-bader","tag-ivan-herrera","tag-jesus-rodriguez","tag-joel-peguero","tag-keaton-winn","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcelo-mayer","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-matthew-liberatore","tag-max-rajcic","tag-mlb","tag-peter-strzelecki","tag-rafael-devers","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-sam-hentges","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-victor-bericoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806374","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=806374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806374\/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=806374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}