{"id":765639,"date":"2026-05-01T09:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/765639\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:27:50","slug":"cardinals-host-los-angeles-dodgers-look-to-end-home-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/765639\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals host Los Angeles Dodgers, look to end home slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (20-11, first in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (18-13, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Dodgers: Emmet Sheehan<\/a> (2-0, 4.78 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 28 strikeouts); Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore<\/a> (0-1, 4.75 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Dodgers -183, Cardinals +152; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals play the Los Angeles Dodgers looking to end their three-game home losing streak.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has an 18-13 record overall and a 7-8 record in home games. The Cardinals have an 8-5 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 20-11 overall and 8-5 in road games. Dodgers hitters have a collective .351 on-base percentage, the second-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Alec Burleson<\/a> has eight doubles, four home runs and 25 RBIs while hitting .277 for the Cardinals. Masyn Winn<\/a> is 14 for 41 with two doubles and a triple over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Max Muncy<\/a> leads the Dodgers with 13 extra base hits (four doubles and nine home runs). Dalton Rushing<\/a> is 7 for 29 with three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 5-5, .251 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

Dodgers: 5-5, .237 batting average, 2.66 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cardinals: Matt Pushard: 15-Day IL (knee), Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels)<\/p>\n

Dodgers: Brock Stewart<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Mookie Betts<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Landon Knack<\/a>: 60-Day IL (undisclosed), Jake Cousins<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kike Hernandez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brusdar Graterol: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Evan Phillips<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tommy Edman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Edwin Diaz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Blake Snell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ben Casparius<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder)<\/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":"Los Angeles Dodgers (20-11, first in the NL West) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (18-13, third in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[32162,27043,232744,69428,1582,276,35123,31972,21696,27042,255655,27046,213056,2961,261833,224,2502,5337,1884,8327,2749,6599],"class_list":["post-765639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ben-casparius","tag-blake-snell","tag-bobby-miller","tag-brock-stewart","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dalton-rushing","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-emmet-sheehan","tag-evan-phillips","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jake-cousins","tag-la","tag-landon-knack","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-muncy","tag-mookie-betts","tag-tommy-edman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116498616034400360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}