ATLANTA — What Tommy Edman did in his brief work as Kolten Wong's replacement in the lineup was not only good enough to keep him in the lineup for the postseason, it kept his spot in the lineup, too.
Against Braves lefty Dallas Keuchel, the Cardinals have leaned hard right with the starting lineup for Thursday's Game 1 of the National League Division Series at 4:02 p.m. (St. Louis time). Switch-hitters Dexter Fowler and Edman are atop the lineup, and lefthanded hitter Matt Carpenter will begin the best-of-five playoff series as a member of the "Bench Mafia."
The lineup steers into the splits for Keuchel, the former Cy Young Award winner the Braves signed shortly after the June draft.