Reds get first taste of 2025 Cardinals on the road in St. Louis

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The NL Central rivalry is revived!

The 2025 St. Louis Cardinals were supposed to be bad.

They finished an abysmal (for them) 20 games under .500 back in 2023, and barely scraped by the .500 mark with an 83 win season in 2024 that still left them on the outside of the playoffs looking in.

They waved goodbye to longtime stalwart 1B Paul Goldschmidt, who signed with the New York Yankees over the winter as a free agent. They fielded...