The St. Louis Cardinals take a four-game win streak into a contest versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, at 8:15 p.m. ET on Friday. Emmet Sheehan (2-0, 4.78 ERA) gets the start for the Dodgers, who are 20-11 this season and first in the NL West. Matthew Liberatore (0-1, 4.75 ERA) is starting for the Cardinals, who are 18-13 and third in the NL Central.
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Dodgers vs. Cardinals odds
Injury reports
Dodgers
Tommy Edman: 10 Day IL (Ankle), Mookie Betts: 10 Day IL (Back), Brock Stewart: 15 Day IL (Shoulder), Brusdar Graterol: 15 Day IL (Shoulder), Blake Snell: 15 Day IL (Shoulder), Edwin Díaz: 15 Day IL (Elbow), Ben Casparius: 15 Day IL (Shoulder), Bobby Miller: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Gavin Stone: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Jake Cousins: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Kiké Hernández: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Landon Knack: 60 Day IL (Undisclosed), Evan Phillips: 60 Day IL (Elbow)
Cardinals
Matt Pushard: 15 Day IL (Knee), Lars Nootbaar: 60 Day IL (Heels)
Stats to know
- Los Angeles’ Andy Pages is slashing .321/.366/.518 this season with five home runs, 25 RBIs (8th in MLB) and an OPS of .884. He has a 22.8% strikeout rate and a 6.5% walk rate in 123 plate appearances, and he has scored 16 total runs. Pages has recorded four steals on five attempts.
- In 139 plate appearances, Shohei Ohtani is hitting .273/.406/.491 with a .897 OPS and four steals on four attempts. He has hit six long balls, driven in 13 runs and scored 21 times.
- St. Louis’ JJ Wetherholt is slashing .256/.378/.479 this season with seven home runs, 16 RBIs and an OPS of .856. He has a 17.5% strikeout rate and an 11.9% walk rate in 143 plate appearances, and he has scored 27 total runs. Wetherholt has recorded four steals on four attempts.
- In 135 plate appearances, Alec Burleson has slashed .277/.356/.445 this season. He has hit four long balls and driven in 25 runs (8th in MLB) with a strikeout rate of 13.3% and a walk rate of 11.1%. and has scored 15 runs.
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