Overview
- Chicago’s White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals will play a June 19 straight doubleheader after their June 18 contest was postponed due to rain, featuring Sonny Gray and Erick Fedde for St. Louis and Sean Burke and Mike Vasil for Chicago.
- The Cubs-Brewers game at Wrigley Field was halted June 18 and rescheduled as a split doubleheader on August 18, freeing Chicago to start Jameson Taillon against Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski in Thursday’s series finale.
- Jameson Taillon seeks his sixth consecutive quality start as Chicago extends its home win streak to three games and pushes its NL Central advantage to a season-best 6.5 games.
- Spencer Steer’s two-run homer and Nick Lodolo’s five solid innings fueled a rain-shortened 4-2 win over Minnesota, marking the Cincinnati Reds’ fourth straight victory and moving them within one game of the third NL wild-card spot.
- Detroit’s makeup day features a split doubleheader against Pittsburgh with ace Tarik Skubal slated for Game 1 and Pirates’ Paul Skenes set to start Game 2.