{"id":464195,"date":"2026-09-15T06:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464195\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:24:47","slug":"series-preview-st-louis-cardinals-hosting-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464195\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Preview: St. Louis Cardinals Hosting San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After winning the weekend series against the Chicago White Sox, the St. Louis Cardinals do not get a break as they begin the week playing host to the San Francisco Giants. While there are no playoff slots realistically at stake, it should make for an interesting 3-game series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I can\u2019t give you a realistic look at pitching matchups for the Cardinals\/Giants series since San Francisco has not announced their starters as of the time of this writing. St. Louis has announced their starters and they\u2019re expected to hit the mound in this order:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Monday night &#8211; Quinn Mathews<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tuesday night &#8211; Andre Pallante<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Wednesday afternoon &#8211; Matthew Liberatore<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The San Francisco Giants come to town after losing a weekend series against their NL West adversaries the Padres. They are 5-5 over their last 10 games 3 of which will be very familiar to St. Louis Cardinals fans after the team was swept a week ago in San Francisco. The Cardinals are 4-6 in their last 10 games, but they are coming off of the weekend series win against the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UPDATE: Rafael Devers will not be someone the Cardinals have to deal with as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49931348\/giants-slugger-devers-season-ends-early-due-core-muscle-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN is reporting<\/a> his season is ending due to a core muscle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Willy Adames: Adames has 21 home runs with 51 RBI\u2019s and an average of just .230.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Casey Schmitt: Schmitt also has 21 home runs on the season with 55 RBI\u2019s and an average of .271.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bryce Eldridge: Eldridge is having a solid season with 16 home runs, 53 RBI\u2019s and an average of .267.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The San Francisco Giants have already been eliminated from playoff contention and the St. Louis Cardinals aren\u2019t far behind as they\u2019re currently 7 games out of the final Wild Card slot with 4 teams ahead of them which include the Diamondbacks, Padres, Pirates and Marlins. The Cardinals are hopeful that JJ Wetherholt will be back in the lineup before the final homestand of the year against the Washington Nationals happens. You would think that the San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals would give the young Cardinals an opportunity to string together some wins before the 2026 campaign is over, but the bullpen will always be a question mark with this roster. Let\u2019s hope the development of exciting young players like Bernal, Baez and others continues to make positive strides. More than a few of us would also love to see Alec Burleson win the NL RBI title this year. Let\u2019s hope good things happen as our team of the future begins to take shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After winning the weekend series against the Chicago White Sox, the St. Louis Cardinals do not get a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,64700],"class_list":["post-464195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-st-louis-cardinals-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}