{"id":811279,"date":"2026-09-22T08:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/811279\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:27:14","slug":"pirates-host-the-cardinals-aim-to-extend-home-win-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/811279\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates host the Cardinals, aim to extend home win streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (76-80, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (79-77, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Andre Pallante<\/a> (12-7, 3.70 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 104 strikeouts); Pirates: Jared Jones<\/a> (4-6, 4.17 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 109 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -153, Cardinals +126; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates will try to keep a four-game home win streak alive when they take on the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has gone 42-36 in home games and 79-77 overall. Pirates hitters have a collective .406 slugging percentage to rank eighth in MLB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has gone 38-37 on the road and 76-80 overall. The Cardinals are 52-33 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Tuesday for the 11th time this season. The Cardinals are up 6-4 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Reynolds<\/a> has 17 home runs, 85 walks and 71 RBIs while hitting .262 for the Pirates. Oneil Cruz<\/a> is 14 for 38 with a double, three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 28 home runs while slugging .474. Leonardo Bernal is 14 for 42 with three home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 6-4, .266 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 4-6, .232 batting average, 4.40 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Pirates: Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Esmerlyn Valdez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Braxton Ashcraft: 15-Day IL (arm), Isaac Mattson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Endy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Mitch Keller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Joshua Baez: 10-Day IL (side), Blaze Jordan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Max Rajcic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (forearm), Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand)<\/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 (76-80, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (79-77, third 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":[1181,5,19003,5343,160,11161,55483,75686,10857,13960,5627,4679,99,19,74862,4163,4,1330,64,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-811279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-andre-pallante","tag-baseball","tag-blaze-jordan","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-cardinals","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-isaac-mattson","tag-jared-jones","tag-jordan-walker","tag-kirby-yates","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-rajcic","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-oneil-cruz","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117313748577591530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811279","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=811279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811279\/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=811279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}