JUPITER, Fla. • Cardinals bench coach Oliver Marmol will have more of the “A” team Friday night as the Cardinals engage in a split-squad doubleheader with the Houston Astros. One game will be here at 5:05, Central time, and the other, which manager Mike Shildt will attend, will be at West Palm Beach, Houston’s spring training site, at the same time.
Adam Wainwright will start the game here to be followed by prime relievers Andrew Miller and Jordan Hicks and Alex Reyes, who appears ticketed for the bullpen. Daniel Ponce de Leon, trying to leave one more good impression, will start the game at West Palm Beach where he pitched four innings to close out a victory last Friday.