The St. Louis Cardinals are coming off a 4-game series split at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates to turn around and face the Arizona Diamondbacks for three games starting Monday evening. At the end of this series the Cardinals will have played thirteen games in a row. The off day on Thursday will be well earned. (It will have been good practice for when the club has 19 games in a row to close out May. Yikes.)
In this series the Cardinals are scheduled to line up against Merrill Kelly, Drey Jameson in his first appearance against the Cardinals, and Madison Bumgarner.