Arenado is not in the lineup Thursday versus the Twins.
This appears to be a routine breather for Arenado as the Cardinals close out their three-game set with Minnesota. Taylor Motter is at third base and batting ninth.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Getting rare day off
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Arenado is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game in Arizona.
Arenado gets a rare day off after he had an eight-game hitting streak snapped Tuesday. Taylor Motter will get the start at third base in place of Arenado.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Extends hitting streak with homer
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Arenado went 1-for-5 with a solo home run in Monday's 10-6 win over the Diamondbacks.
Arenado is 13-for-33 (.394) with two homers and 13 RBI during his active eight-game hitting streak. His blast came in the fifth inning to give the Cardinals a 5-2 lead, which they squandered before rallying back ahead in the ninth. The third baseman is well on his way to another 30-homer campaign -- he's at 22 for the year while adding 77 RBI, 48 runs scored, two stolen bases and a .290/.338/.527 slash line through 97 contests.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Racks up three hits
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Arenado (leg) went 3-for-4 in Sunday's 7-2 loss to the Cubs.
Arenado played the full game at third base after exiting Saturday's contest with left leg stiffness. While he put in a good effort, the Cardinals' Nos. 1, 2 and 4 hitters combined to go 0-for-13 with a walk, eliminating Arenado's chances of getting involved in run production. The third baseman is on a seven-game hitting streak, going 12-for-28 (.429) in that span. He's up to a .291/.340/.523 slash line with 21 home runs, 76 RBI, 47 runs scored, 19 doubles, two triples and two stolen bases through 96 contests overall.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Good to go Sunday
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Arenado (leg) is starting at third base and batting third Sunday against the Cubs, Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat reports.
Arenado was pulled from Saturday's contest with left leg stiffness after he fouled a pitch off himself, but the issue won't keep him out of the lineup for Sunday's series finale. The 32-year-old is in the midst of a six-game hit streak and has a .375/.407/.583 slash line with 12 RBI during that span.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Exited with leg stiffness
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Arenado was removed from Saturday's loss to the Cubs after fouling a ball off his lower left leg, Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat reports.
That explains why the Cardinals brought in Brendan Donovan to hit for Arenado in the top of the ninth inning. The star third baseman downplayed the issue after the game, saying his leg just stiffened up a bit during a seventh-inning rain delay. He could be available for Sunday's series finale at Wrigley Field.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Walks off Marlins
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Arenado went 2-for-4 with a three-run home run and a walk in Tuesday's extra-inning win against Miami.
The 32-year-old walked off the Marlins with a 389-foot shot to left field with two outs in the 10th inning, and he now has seven RBI through the first two games of the series. Arenado scuffled to a .600 OPS during the first month of the season, but his season slash line now sits at .286/.336/.529 with 21 home runs, 71 RBI and 45 runs in 91 games.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Knocks in four runs Monday
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Arenado went 2-for-3 with a double and four RBI in a 6-4 win against Miami on Monday.
Arenado plated the majority of the Cardinals' runs in the contest, notching an RBI single in the third inning, a sacrifice fly in the fifth and a two-run double in the sixth. The veteran third baseman tied a season high with the four RBI, and he's accomplished that feat four different times during the campaign. Arenado is enjoying a very productive July, slashing .340/.393/.745 with four homers, seven doubles, 14 RBI and nine runs over 13 games.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Clobbers 20th homer
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Arenado went 2-for-3 with a solo home run and an additional RBI in Saturday's win over Washington.
Arenado tagged Paolo Espino for a long ball in the eighth inning, his 20th of the season and his fourth in his last six contests. The third baseman has collected a hit in 11 of his last 14 appearances, a stretch in which he's hitting 18-for-52 (.346) with 12 RBI and 10 runs scored.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Goes deep twice
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Arenado went 2-for-5 with two home runs and four RBI in Friday's loss to the White Sox.
Arenado launched a pair of two-run shots for his second multi-homer game of the year. His slow start to 2023 is now well behind him as his season slash line of .282/.329/.521 looks more like his usual production. Since the start of June, Arenado has registered a 1.053 OPS with 21 extra-base hits, including 10 home runs, and 26 RBI through 30 games.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Launches 17th homer
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Arenado went 1-for-3 with a solo home run in Thursday's victory over the Marlins.
Arenado took Eury Perez yard for a solo shot in the sixth inning, moving his season total to 17 with three games left before the All-Star break. His home-run total ranks fourth among third basemen while Arenado is third at the position in batting average (.280). The 32-year-old has been red hot at the plate across his last nine games, going 12-for-30 (.400) with eight RBI and seven runs scored.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Drives in two, doubles three times
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Arenado went 3-for-5 with three doubles, two RBI and two runs scored in Wednesday's 10-9 loss against the Marlins.
Arenado doubled in each of his first two at-bats, with the latter one scoring Lars Nootbaar and Paul Goldschmidt to bring the Cardinals back within striking distance. He again doubled to lead off the seventh before coming around to score on a Willson Contreras single, making it a one-run game. The third baseman is now hitting .368 through five games in July to go along with six doubles, three RBI and four runs scored. He's also hit safely in seven of his last eight games.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Out for second game of doubleheader
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Arenado is not in the lineup for the second game of Saturday's doubleheader against the Yankees.
Arenado went 1-for-3 with a run scored and a walk in the first game of the day. He returned from a brief absence caused by back tightness Thursday, which may have encouraged the team to lessen his workload a bit in the short term. Nolan Gorman will slide over to third base while Alec Burleson enters the lineup as the designated hitter.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Starting in DH role
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Arenado (back) is serving as the Cardinals' designated hitter and batting cleanup Thursday versus the Astros.
Arenado has been bothered by lower-back tightness since Tuesday and made an early exit from Wednesday's game because of it, but he feels well enough to fill the DH role in Thursday's series finale versus Houston. Nolan Gorman will cover third base and Brendan Donovan is playing second base.
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Cardinals' Nolan Arenado: Battling back tightness
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Arenado was pulled from Wednesday's game against the Astros with lower-back tightness, Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat reports.
Arenado is officially listed as day-to-day, so his injury doesn't seem to be too severe. However, it's still possible he sits out for another game to recover. The 32-year-old third baseman was 1-for-3 with a three-run homer before leaving the game.
Arenado went 2-for-5 with a two-run home run and solo home run in Sunday's win over the Mets.
Arenado was 0-for-9 through the first two games of the series versus New York, but he got hot Sunday, smoking his fifth and sixth homers of June. After his first multi-homer game of the season, the slugger now has 15 long balls and 48 RBI while slashing .276/.322/.493. Arenado got off to an unusually slow start in 2023, but he's back to producing like a superstar.
