Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis Cardinals

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PHI	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	6	8	0
STL	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	5	8	2

Andrew Painter (1-8, 6.05 ERA) gets the ball for Philadelphia looking to build on a last outing where he worked 4.0 innings and allowed just 1 earned run against Washington. Hunter Dobbins (2-2, 3.40 ERA) counters for St. Louis, coming off a 6.1-inning, 2-run effort in a loss to the Yankees. First pitch was 6:45 PM CT at Busch Stadium.

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Total

Phillies(63-56)

WLLWL

6

-1.5+147-113o8.5-120

Cardinals(59-59)

WLWWL

5

+1.5-150+111u8.5+122

Best BetPhillies -116

Postgame

Phillies won outright 6-5, so the moneyline cashes. The market move we cited pregame — the Cardinals' price cratering — read the room correctly; Philadelphia never trailed and led by 5 runs before St. Louis made it look closer than it was.

Pregame

Philadelphia sits at -115 on Pinnacle and the number reflects a team that's been miles better than its April version. St. Louis is live at plus money off a modest recent stretch, but the Cardinals are sitting right at .500 for a reason — they're a break-even club matched against a Phillies group that's outplayed its own preseason expectations for months. Lay the number here.

Philadelphia's bullpen took a hit right before this series — Caleb Kilian landed on the 15-day IL with a right-side injury suffered during Sunday's extra-innings win over Toronto, thinning out a relief corps that's already missing Brad Keller and Tanner Banks for the year. St. Louis, meanwhile, is playing out the string as a deadline seller, and the market noticed: the Cardinals' moneyline price cratered pregame, drifting hard against them as bettors piled onto the Phillies to win outright.

Andrew Painter

(2-8)·6.43 ERA

Aug 5 vs Nationals

ND

4.0IP

1ER

4K

1BB

63P

08/10 Lineup

Hunter Dobbins

(3-3)·3.67 ERA

Aug 4 @ Yankees

L

6.1IP

2ER

4K

3BB

92P

08/10 Lineup

Both clubs arrived hot off wins, which made the 91-degree, partly sunny evening at Busch feel less like a formality than the records suggested. It played out that way — this one had a five-run swing, a two-error night from the home defense, and a finish that came down to the final outs.

Philadelphia built the cushion methodically: 2 in the second, 1 in the fifth, 1 in the seventh, then 2 more in the eighth to push it to 6-1. St. Louis had been dormant at the plate for six innings before erupting for 2 in the sixth and 3 in the eighth, an 8-hit, comeback bid that got the tying run to the plate before it ran out of runway. The Cardinals' 2 defensive errors didn't help matters in a game decided by 1 run.

Philadelphia Phillies

(63-56)

Aug 9Wvs Blue Jays7-6

Aug 8Lvs Blue Jays5-7

Aug 7Lvs Blue Jays4-5

Aug 6Wvs Nationals7-3

Aug 5Lvs Nationals4-10

St. Louis Cardinals

(59-59)

Aug 9Wvs Rockies7-4

Aug 8Lvs Rockies6-8

Aug 8Wvs Rockies3-2

Aug 5W@ Yankees3-1

Aug 4L@ Yankees0-2

Philadelphia enters the stretch run as a trade-deadline buyer after adding Luis Arraez, while St. Louis has been selling off pieces as it leans into a rebuild — a split-timeline dynamic that showed up in how each team played this one, with the Phillies pushing the lead and the Cardinals scrapping just to make it interesting.

Philadelphia Phillies

(6)

• 10-Day-ILRafael Marchan (C) — The Phillies placed Marchan (knee) on the 10-day injured list Friday, retroactive to July 23.07/24
• 15-Day-ILCaleb Kilian (RP) — Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly said that Kilian suffered a right side injury during his relief appearance in Sunday's 7-6 victory over the Blue Jays in 12 innings, Matt Gelb of The Athletic reports. Kilian allowed an unearned run on one hit over an inning of relief en route to earning his fourth win of the season.08/10
• 60-Day-ILBrad Keller (RP) — Keller underwent right elbow UCL reconstruction surgery with internal brace and flexor tendon repair Tuesday, Lochlahn March of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.07/29
• 60-Day-ILTanner Banks (RP) — The Phillies placed Banks on the 15-day injured list Thursday with a left forearm strain.07/25
• 60-Day-ILJohan Rojas (CF) — Rojas (suspension) underwent surgery Friday to repair the UCL in his right elbow and will face an expected recovery timeline of 6-to-8 months, Scott Lauber of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.06/25
• 60-Day-ILAdolis Garcia (RF) — The Phillies announced that Garcia underwent successful surgery Wednesday to repair a torn right lat, Lochlahn March of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.06/24

St. Louis Cardinals

(2)

• 60-Day-ILRamon Urias (3B) — Urias (elbows) has been sent to Triple-A Memphis to resume a rehab assignment, John Denton of Roundtable.io reports.08/04
• 60-Day-ILMax Rajcic (RP) — Rajcic revealed on his Instagram account Thursday that he recently underwent a right elbow UCL reconstruction.07/23

It wasn't clean for either side. Philadelphia needed its bullpen to hold a 5-run lead down the stretch with Kilian already out, and St. Louis needed 8 hits and a furious 8th-inning rally just to make the final margin respectable. Neither storyline changes the standings much, but it was a lot more competitive than a buyer-seller mismatch had any business being.