The St. Louis Cardinals are on one again. Since splitting their last series against the Cincinnati Reds, the Cardinals have lost three of their last four series and have gone 3-8 over that time. Perhaps a visit from the Reds will end the skid much like it began it. Maybe that is the symmetry the universe demands.
Against their efforts the Cardinals will face the trio of Ben Lively, Andrew Abbott, and Hunter Greene. The Cardinals faced Lively in the third game of that series, losing 3-10. Lively went six innings in that game, allowing only two runs off five hits with eight strikeouts and two walks in one of his better pitching performances of the season so far.