Tonight at 8:10 p.m. ET, the Milwaukee Brewers (17-13) and St. Louis Cardinals (33-17) take the field at Busch Stadium for the opening contest of a three-game series live from St. Louis.
Milwaukee opens up a nine-game road trip after halting a seven-match losing streak last time out while St. Louis has won six of its last seven contests as it resumes a nine-game homestand.
The Brewers dropped two of three games against the Arizona Diamondbacks over the weekend while the Cardinals took two of three from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Mike Fiers (1-5, 4.53 ERA) mans the mound for Milwaukee while St. Louis counters with Jaime Garcia and he is 1-1 with a 3.46 ERA thus far this season.
Fiers comes in on an extra day of rest and is entering on the heels of an outing where he allowed two runs in five innings of work. Garcia, meanwhile, makes his third start of the season against a team he is 6-3 against lifetime in 12 starts.
The Brewers hope for a big lift when catcher Jonathan Lucroy, who finished fourth in the National League in MVP voting last year, returns for the first time since fracturing his big toe on April 20.
"To me, we're getting one of the best players in the game back playing again," Brewers manager Craig Counsell told MLB.com. "[He's] one of the best catchers in the game. That's something worth putting a smile on your face."
Lucroy joins a Brewers lineup that is led by outfielder Ryan Braun, who is hitting .264 with 12 homers and ranks third in the NL with 38 RBI.
Cardinals third baseman Matt Carpenter is first in the NL with 17 doubles and tied for third with 34 runs while outfielder Matt Holliday is fourth in on-base percentage (.434) and walks (29) and outfielder Peter Bourjos is tied for second in the league in triples (3).
St. Louis enters play with the league's best record and has a six-game lead on the Chicago Cubs atop the NL Central while Milwaukee is in last place, 16.5 games behind the Redbirds.
Two NL Central rivals open up a three-game set when the Brewers and Cardinals go head-to-head live tonight from Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
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