The St. Louis Cardinals will close out a road series at Coors Field against the Colorado Rockies. St. Louis has won nine of their last ten games improving to 60-48 on the year, and have taken the lead in the NL Central from the Brewers. The Rockies have lost seven of their last ten games and now trail the Dodgers by 28.5 games at 48-63 this season, leaving them well out of both the divisional and wild card races.
St. Louis has continued their dominance over the NL Central behind a solid offense that scores 4.68 runs per game which ranks seventh in the MLB in scoring offense. Paul Goldschmidt has led the way with a fantastic season batting a league-best .332 with 26 home runs (tied-seventh in MLB) and 84 RBIs (fourth in MLB). Although this team missed on the Juan Soto sweepstakes at the trade deadline, this lineup is plenty good to make a run in the postseason.
The left-handed Jose Quintana will get the start for the Cardinals and hope to continue whats has been a nice bounce-back season. Quintana is 3-5 but has a 3.39 ERA in 109 innings, issuing 96 strikeouts in that time. He's coming off of a great outing against the Cubs, allowing just one solo home run in six innings of work while striking out seven as the Cardinals beat the Cubs 7-2.