Miami Marlins (42-39, third in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (42-36, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Max Meyer (8-0, 2.80 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 102 strikeouts); Cardinals: Michael McGreevy (3-6, 3.35 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 53 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Cardinals -120, Marlins -102; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Miami Marlins on Friday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
St. Louis has a 42-36 record overall and a 22-19 record in home games. The Cardinals have the eighth-best team on-base percentage in the majors at .327.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miami has a 42-39 record overall and a 14-22 record in road games. The Marlins have a 30-14 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teams play Friday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jordan Walker leads the Cardinals with 18 home runs while slugging .521. JJ Wetherholt is 14 for 44 with three home runs and six RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 4-6, .266 batting average, 5.48 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marlins: 7-3, .247 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Cardinals: Ryan Fernandez: 15-Day IL (back), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marlins: Janson Junk: 15-Day IL (shin), Josh Ekness: 60-Day IL (calf), Liam Hicks: 10-Day IL (back), Andrew Nardi: 60-Day IL (ribs), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Miami Marlins (42-39, third in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (42-36, third in the NL Central) St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Max Meyer (8-0, 2.80 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 102 strikeouts); Cardinals: Michael McGreevy (3-6, 3.35 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 53 strikeouts) LINE: Cardinals -120, Marlins -102; over\/under is 8 runs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418477,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418476\/revisions\/418477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}