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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (77-81, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (80-78, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh; Thursday, 12:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Kyle Leahy<\/a> (10-5, 3.65 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 129 strikeouts); Pirates: Paul Skenes<\/a> (10-11, 3.91 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 192 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Pirates -164, Cardinals +134; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals play on Thursday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is 43-37 in home games and 80-78 overall. The Pirates have a 52-19 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 77-81 record overall and a 39-38 record in road games. The Cardinals have the 10th-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .315.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Lowe<\/a> leads the Pirates with 64 extra base hits (29 doubles, a triple and 34 home runs). Rafael Flores<\/a> is 12 for 33 with two doubles, two home runs and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 28 home runs while slugging .470. Leonardo Bernal is 11 for 41 with two home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 6-4, .260 batting average, 3.94 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 4-6, .205 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

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

Cardinals: Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Blaze Jordan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Joshua Baez: 10-Day IL (side), Max Rajcic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Dobbins: 15-Day IL (forearm)<\/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 (77-81, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (80-78, 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":[2402],"tags":[5,19003,1751,11161,55483,75686,10857,13960,4679,4396,19,74862,4163,4,877,10,776,64,4297,83780,67],"class_list":["post-812953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-blaze-jordan","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-esmerlyn-valdez","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-isaac-mattson","tag-jordan-walker","tag-kyle-leahy","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-rajcic","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-rafael-flores-jr","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117325226519403251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812953","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=812953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812953\/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=812953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}