The St. Louis Cardinals are set to play the Cincinnati Reds this weekend in their final series before the All Star Break, then will play the Reds immediately upon conclusion of said break. In this preview, we will just focus on the first series.
On the season the Cardinals are 4 and 2 against the Reds scoring 23 runs while allowing 17. When they first played the Reds were coming off a nine-game losing streak. In the second series things had normalized for the Reds and they had won a few series in a row.