ST. LOUIS -- With rain showers settling over Busch Stadium on Tuesday and expected to persist into the night, the Cardinals postponed their game against the Brewers and scheduled a doubleheader for July 7.
Fans holding tickets for Tuesday’s rained-out game can use them for the rescheduled game at 1:15 p.m. CT on July 7. That will be followed by the originally scheduled game that night at 6:45 p.m. CT, the Cardinals said.
Tuesday’s rainout provides the Cardinals’ rotation with some cushion in the midst of a stretch that had been slated to see the team play on 17 consecutive days. After being originally scheduled for Tuesday night, Andre Pallante will start for the Cardinals on Wednesday afternoon. St. Louis will push each starter back a day from what had been previously planned, with Matthew Liberatore now on track for Thursday in San Diego.
Michael McGreevy will start Friday in that road series, with Dustin May and Kyle Leahy expected to follow thereafter as the Cardinals keep their rotation in order, per manager Oliver Marmol.
For the Brewers, rookie Brandon Sproat will start Wednesday’s series finale and the rest of the starters will be pushed back. That means a start on Friday night against the Yankees for Jacob Misiorowski, who remains on schedule after leaving his last start amid a no-hit bid because of right hamstring cramping.
Both teams were well aware going into the series that Mother Nature might play a role, but the schedule in the near- and long-term made it a challenge to choose an agreeable make-up date.
The Brewers’ only other visit to Busch Stadium is a four-game series during the week before the All-Star break, which falls in the middle of Milwaukee’s longest stretch of the season without an off-day -- 17 games in 17 days. For that reason, the Brewers preferred to play a doubleheader on Wednesday, beginning with the regularly scheduled series finale at 12:15 p.m. CT and the makeup game to follow.
In the end, after some back and forth between the teams while players did their afternoon work in the event plans changed, the July doubleheader date won out.
The forecast is much better for baseball for the Brewers’ and Cardinals’ series finale on Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, with a chance for morning rain that clears up by midday.