Saturday would have been a red-letter day for Cardinals fans who go apoplectic about manager Mike Matheny’s many lineups. For the first time this season, Matheny was going to use the same eight-man batting order that he had used in the preceding game.
The game was postponed 2½ hours before the scheduled first pitch. But fear not. Matheny said that, pending any change about the Cincinnati pitching — and none is planned — Friday’s lineup will be Sunday’s lineup.
That means, in order, Dexter Fowler, Aledmys Diaz, Matt Carpenter, Jedd Gyorko, Stephen Piscotty, Yadier Molina, Randal Grichuk, Kolten Wong.