PREVIEW Starts 6:40 PM ET · Great American Ball Park
August 18, 2026 · NL Cent

St. Louis Cardinals at Cincinnati Reds

August 18, 20266:40 PM ETGreat American Ball Park
AWAY
St. Louis Cardinals
22-15
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HOME
Cincinnati Reds
20-19

Lineups

Lineups are usually announced ~90 minutes before first pitch. Check back soon.

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 · CIN
Terry Francona
B- Lineup 0.9 R Bunts 0.8 R IBBs 0.8 R

Bullpen availability

AWAY · STL
  • Available 8
  • Limited 0
  • Rest required 0
  • Inactive 0
HOME · CIN
  • Available 6
  • Limited 1
  • Rest required 1
  • Inactive 0

Recent form

AWAY · STL
7-2 W1 +13 run diff
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HOME · CIN
1-9 L8 -46 run diff
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Tactical preview

Oliver Marmol (B-) faces Terry Francona (B-). Lineup decisions are the largest single category of cost in the RunsLeft model.

AWAY · STL
B-
Lineup cost 1.2 R · Bunt cost 0.7 R · IBB cost 0.3 R
HOME · CIN
B-
Lineup cost 0.9 R · Bunt cost 0.8 R · IBB cost 0.8 R

Lineups not yet announced. They typically post ~90 minutes before first pitch.

Bullpen availability for both teams is in the section above. Full tactical analysis (manager cost, player execution, counterfactual outcome) will appear here after the game ends.

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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.

Read the full methodology.