The New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals are finishing their MLB interleague series on Wednesday night at Busch Stadium and the matchup starts at 8:15 pm ET and has Hiroki Kuroda up against Shelby Miller in the pitching matchup and the game will be streaming online from MLB.com as the Yanks return home after this series.
The Yankees come into the game after getting blanked by the Cards and Lance Lynn and now they will try and salvage the series after splitting the first two games. The team has a series next against the Minnesota Twins and they come into the game hitting the ball well, ranking 12th in runs and 10th in batting average and the team is 16th in on base and 13th in slugging. The pitching has been struggling along with injuries to CC Sabathia and Michael Pineda, while Ivan Nova is on the DL with Tommy John. The team is ranked 17th in ERA, 22nd in BAA and 18th in quality starts.
The Cardinals come into the game second in the NL Central while the Yanks are second in the AL East and the Cards need to wake up on offense. The team has been struggling to score without Carlos Beltran in the lineup and they have been out homered by individual players since May 1 and they have the lowest total in baseball. The team is ranked 20th in runs and ninth in batting average, while the pitching is in the top 10 across the board and they are fifth in Era and second in WHIP this season.
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