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May 8, 2026 · NL West

St. Louis Cardinals vs San Diego Padres

May 8, 2026Petco ParkPartly Cloudy 68°F · 8 mph, L To R
AWAY
St. Louis Cardinals
22-15
6
vs
HOME
San Diego Padres
22-15
0

Starting pitchers

AWAY · STL
Michael McGreevy
Michael McGreevy
IP 6
HOME · SD
Griffin Canning
Griffin Canning
IP 4.1

Lineups

AWAY · STL
  1. 1 JJ Wetherholt 2B
  2. 2 Iván Herrera C
  3. 3 Alec Burleson 1B
  4. 4 Jordan Walker RF
  5. 5 Nolan Gorman DH
  6. 6 Masyn Winn SS
  7. 7 Nathan Church LF
  8. 8 César Prieto 3B
  9. 9 Victor Scott II CF
HOME · SD
  1. 1 Jackson Merrill CF
  2. 2 Xander Bogaerts SS
  3. 3 Manny Machado 3B
  4. 4 Gavin Sheets 1B
  5. 5 Fernando Tatis Jr. RF
  6. 6 Miguel Andujar DH
  7. 7 Ramón Laureano LF
  8. 8 Freddy Fermin C
  9. 9 Sung-Mun Song 2B

Box score

  1234567 R
STL 0000600 6
SD 0000000 0

Manager comparison

Both managers grade B- / B entering this matchup.

AWAY · STL
Oliver Marmol
B- Lineup 1.2 R Bunts 0.7 R IBBs 0.3 R
HOME · SD
Craig Stammen
B Lineup 0.8 R Bunts 0.4 R IBBs 0.2 R

Recent form

AWAY · STL
7-2 W1 +13 run diff
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HOME · SD
4-6 L1 -6 run diff
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Season series: 1-0 with STL listed first across 1 prior meeting.

Live analysis

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How RunsLeft analyzes games

Standard content on this page comes from the MLB Stats API. Tactical analysis comes from a per-game Monte Carlo: 10,000 simulated games against the opposing starter's ERA, both for the actual lineup the manager wrote and for the optimal arrangement of those nine players. The three numbers — manager cost, player execution, game variance — separate which part of the result was the lineup, the players, or the dice.

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