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Phillies vs Cardinals
1:07 PM CT - October 7, 2022
Busch Stadium - St. Louis, MO
Listen: Phillies - 94 WIP/Cardinals - KMOX 1120
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First pitch is scheduled for 2:07 p.m. ET/1:07 p.m. CT on Friday at Busch Stadium. The game will air on ABC, with Alex Rodriguez serving as the color analyst for the series and Michael Kay handling play-by-play duties.

Interim manager Rob Thomson said Thursday that St. Louis native Matt Vierling will start in center field in Game 1, with Cardinals left-hander José Quintana on the mound. Brandon Marsh is expected to be back in the lineup in Game 2, with right-hander Miles Mikolas taking the hill for St. Louis.

The Cardinals took off midway through the season when they moved scrappy rookie Brendan Donovan and hard-hitting lefty Lars Nootbaar to the top of the lineup. That could change on Friday, with Marmol contemplating moving the red-hot Pujols up in the order. Paul Goldschmidt slumped down the stretch, but the Cardinals are confident he’ll hit when it matters. Dylan Carlson is the Cardinals’ best center fielder, but he might be withheld on Friday because of his struggles hitting righties.

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Pitching Matchup

Phillies: Zack Wheeler

Wheeler gets the nod to open the series. He went 12-7 with a 2.82 ERA in 28 starts this season, missing a month late because of tendinitis in his right forearm. When he returned, the Phillies lined up his first start for Sept. 21 because it put him in line to pitch in Game 1. Wheeler allowed one run in 15 innings in three starts after returning from the IL, striking out 15 and walking one. He is 3-2 with a 2.65 ERA in six career starts against the Cardinals and 2-1 with a 2.52 ERA in four career starts at Busch Stadium.

Cardinals: Jose Quintana

Quintana, who was 2-1 with a spectacular 1.18 ERA over his final seven starts, will get the ball for Game 1. A big selling point for the southpaw: He’s allowed just one home run in 62 2/3 innings for the Cardinals. In addition to not allowing more than two earned runs in a given start as a Cardinal, Quintana has held Harper and Schwarber to a combined 1-for-16 over his career. Don’t be surprised to see the Cardinals use the hard-throwing Jack Flaherty in a piggy-back role with Quintana. Once Quintana has seen the Phillies' lineup, the Cardinals might opt for Flaherty and his 97 mph fastball to change the look for the foe.

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Notable Injuries

Phillies

Left-hander Brad Hand (left elbow tendinitis) and infielder Edmundo Sosa (strained right hamstring) are on the IL, but it sounds like both will be activated before Game 1. Hand threw a live BP on Wednesday in Houston, which went well. Sosa participated in live BP on Wednesday in Philadelphia. He no longer feels any issues in his right hamstring when he runs, hits or fields.


Cardinals

Reliever Jordan Hicks returned to the active roster on Wednesday and showed that his right arm fatigue is a thing of the past. But the news isn’t so good on outfielder Tyler O’Neill, who ended up on the IL for a third time this season with a left hamstring pull on Sept. 17. The two-time Gold Glover’s progress has been slow, and he isn’t likely to be ready for the Wild Card Series. That loss takes away a power bat, versatile defender and speedy runner from the Cardinals.

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Arenado posted the seventh 30-home run, 100-RBI season of his career in 2022, and a big chunk of his damage came against the Phillies. He hit for the cycle for the second time in his career on July 1 in Philadelphia, and a night later he jump-started a barrage where four Cardinals in a row (Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Carlson) homered. He clinched that win with another home run. Arenado was 10-for-22 (.455) with a double, a triple, three home runs and six RBIs against the Phillies in six games this season. Goldschmidt was 6-for-24 (.250) and Pujols was 4-for-13 (.308) against Philadelphia.

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