The Cardinals of St. Louis know that the pitching staff of the New York Mets will pose many challenges this weekend.
The dishes hope that Juan Soto will be able to further complicate things for cardinals over the next three days.
Soto will seek to break his start to the start of the season crisis on Friday evening, when the dishes welcome the cardinals in the second match of a series of four games between the long -standing competitors of the National League.
The left-hander David Peterson (1-1, 2.70 ERA) should start for the food against the right-hander of the Cardinals Miles Mikolas (0-2, 9:00 am).
Griffin Canning and a trio of lifts combined on a three strikers on Thursday evening, when the dishes marked all their shopping in the second round of a 4-1 victory.
Soto did not take into account the second round explosions. He was left on the deck when Tyrone Taylor scored just before Francisco Lindor was short of reference in an overview between the first and the second for the final.
Soto, who signed a 15 -year contract worth $ 765 million last December, was 0 for 3 with an eighth round on Thursday and has only 2 against 21 in his last six games. Overall, SOTO reaches .221 with three circuits and seven produced points – however, like the Mets manager, Carlos Mendoza, noted it Thursday afternoon, he still clips on a constant clip.
Soto made a summit of 15 goals on the team and ranks second on the basic percentage dishes (0.361) and in OPS (0.773).
“It’s funny, because here we are talking about not having the beginning he would like or that we would like or that people would like,” said Mendoza. “And he always goes on the basis and gives you superb strikes. I just want him to be himself, go there and have fun and play the game.”
The cardinals did not have much fun in marble on Thursday, when they were detained without an additional blow for the first time this season while the dishes lowered their ERA to 2.30.
St. Louis was 1 for 14 with runners on the basis and did not record suddenly after the single of the Bunt of Alec Burleson at the top of the fourth.
“We could not do offensively enough today,” said Cardinals director Oliver Marmol.
The programmed starters of the food The rest of the series – Peterson and the right -handers Kodai Senga and Clay Holmes – are 5-3 with an MPM of 2.48 during their first 10 departures.
“This rotation – (the) guys we face will be a nice little match in the coming days here,” said Marmol.
Peterson won the defeat during his last outing on Saturday, when he abandoned two points in six rounds while the food lost 3-1 against athletics. Mikolas was also the losing launcher on Saturday, granting three points in five rounds while the cardinals fell to the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1.
Peterson never opposed the cardinals – the only NL team to which he has not yet faced the dishes. Mikolas is 2-4 with an MPM of 5.31 in eight career matches (seven departures) against New York.
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