Martinez scheduled to start for Cardinals against Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers (3-4) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (5-2)
St. Louis; Saturday, 2:15 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Adrian Houser (0-1, 3.60 ERA) Cardinals: Carlos Martinez (0-1, 7.20 ERA)
LINE: Brewers favored by 1 1/2 runs; over/under is 8 1/2 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.
The Cardinals went 22-18 in division games in 2020. St. Louis hit .234 as a team with 2.2 extra base hits per game and 51 total home runs last year.
The Brewers went 19-21 in division games in 2020. Milwaukee averaged 7.2 hits with 2.7 extra base hits per game and 5 total triples last season.
The teams meet for the first time this season. St. Louis leads the season series 1-0.
INJURIES: Cardinals: Miles Mikolas: (right shoulder), Kwang Hyun Kim: (back), Dakota Hudson: (right elbow), Harrison Bader: (right forearm), Paul Goldschmidt: (lower back).
Brewers: Bobby Wahl: (right oblique), Justin Topa: (elbow), Tim Lopes: (right oblique), Derek Fisher: (left hamstring), Kolten Wong: (oblique), Mark Mathias: (shoulder), Jacob Nottingham: (left thumb).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.