Cincinnati Reds feels great, four of their last 12 matches have won four of four of their last 12 matches, even with defeat in their most recent game.
But when the Reds are rolling, they will now have to cross their struggles against the National League Central Rivals when they kick the three-game series against hosts St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.
In the series of Cincinnati 1-6–1, this season has played against his division enemy, with a total of 23 games out of 23 games. Its loan series win the last place came in a sweep against Pittsburgh Pirates, and it was two months ago.
“I think we are playing our best baseball right now,” said Reds left fielder Gavin Lux. “Cardinals are good, so I think the bus is going there and trying to go to us now and ride that speed.
The weekend series will be the second season between Reds and Cardinals, who divided the four-game set from 28 April to 1 May.
“We are actually playing great baseball,” Pitcher Nick Martinez said, who started losing Minnesota Twins 12–5 on Thursday. “Ten Hits (on Thursday), five runs. … We’re winning the game (recently) and we are really playing good baseball. Everyone is invested.”
Brady Singer (7-4, 4.34 ERA) will take the mound in the opener. This will be the third career appearance against cardinals for the right hand, which is 0–2 with 4.00 ERAs in nine innings against them.
Meanwhile, St. Louis, a series of Chicago white sox enters the series in search of making sweeps. Cardinals shut down a doublehead with 8–6 win, to overcome the victory after a 6–1 lead in the seventh innings.
He has now won four out of five after the six-game losing streak.
Nolan Aranado witnessed his 350th career home run in the second game of Doubleheader, which became one of the seven players in the major league history even while earning at least 10 gold glove awards.
St. Louis’s manager Oliver Marmol said, “It is difficult to do what he does on daily and as long as he is, and puts those numbers on both sides of baseball.”
The third Basman had three hits in the latest win and has 12 -for -35 in its last nine matches and has increased its season average. 247.
“This year I have not gone in the way I would like this way so far, but I think it is changing,” Arenado said. “I am really batting well. It’s much better what it was. If I continue to hit the ball barely, I think good things happen.”
Right-handed Andre Pallantte (4-3, 4.83 ERA) is expected to receive the node for cardinals. He is 5–2 with 2.18 ERA in 16 career performance (six beginnings) against Cincinnati.
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