Field Level Media
03 May 2026, 14:10 GMT+10
(Photo credit: Jeff Curry-Imagn Images)
Two teams trending in opposite directions meet when the St. Louis Cardinals aim for a sweep of their three-game series against the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.
St. Louis beat the Dodgers 3-2 on Saturday for their sixth straight win, while Los Angeles' offense has gone quiet during its four-game losing streak.
Michael McGreevy tossed six scoreless innings on Saturday to help the Cardinals move a season-best seven games over .500 at 20-13.
'We're going to give you hell when you play us,' McGreevy said. 'There (were) a ton of expectations put on us in the offseason, and it's been so freeing for the guys just to be able to show up and play.'
Jordan Walker hit his 10th home run of the season Saturday and is 6-for-8 with four RBIs in the first two games of the series.
'It just feels nice that the work that I put in during the offseason is showing up here,' Walker said. 'Now the main focus is just keeping it consistent, and it feels like I know what it feels like, so when I get (off track), just get back on.'
The Dodgers have gone five straight games without a home run and have hit a total of three homers in their past 11 games. Los Angeles also hit into four double plays in Saturday's loss.
'It's what every team is going to go through in baseball throughout the course of a season,' Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. 'I felt tonight, although it didn't show for the first eight innings, I thought the intentions were better on balls in the hitting zone.'
Los Angeles has been held to two runs or fewer in six of its last 11 games.
After opening the season on a tear at the plate, Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages has eight hits in his last 38 at-bats. He struck out twice Saturday.
'Just trying to focus on what I can do, not focus so much on the whole,' Pages said through an interpreter. 'Just focus on taking good at-bats, doing good turns, not really trying to get too ahead of myself. Baseball is really hard. So offensively, there's gonna be times where we're not clicking, and that's one of those times right now.'
Left-hander Justin Wrobleski (4-0, 1.50 ERA) will take the mound for the Dodgers. He won his fourth straight start last Sunday, allowing four hits over six solid innings in a 6-0 home win over the Chicago Cubs.
Wrobleski, 25, has allowed two runs on 16 hits in 26 innings across his last four outings.
Pedro Pages is 4-for-6 with two homers against Wrobleski, who is 1-1 with a 5.79 ERA in three career games (two starts) versus St. Louis.
The Cardinals will counter with right-hander Dustin May (3-2, 5.28), who spent the first five-plus seasons of his career from 2019-25 with the Dodgers.
May, 28, gave up two runs over six innings in a no-decision against the Pittsburgh Pirates last Monday. He has allowed two earned runs or fewer in each of his last four starts, going 3-0 in those outings. May is facing his former team for the first time.
--Field Level Media
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