Michael Wacha will take the mound as the starting pitcher for the Cardinals with a 10-3 record. Yadier Molina’s sac fly, and Kolten Wong’s RBI single gave the Cardinals a 2-0 lead.
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The Cubs swept the Cardinals in a doubleheader for the first time in 23 years. A 6-foot-11 forward, he ranked second in the conference in scoring at 17.5 points per game and averaged 8.9 rebounds. It also ended Lester’s streak of 18 consecutive batters retired.
He has had trouble with Starlin Castro and Rizzo, yielding a combined 12 hits and two home runs in 28 at-bats, but Wacha has stifled the remainder of Chicago’s lineup, allowing seven or fewer hits in all five career starts against the Cubs.
One day after being named to the NL All-Star team, Scherzer (9-7) gave up five runs in 4 2-3 innings, his shortest outing in more than a year. In his recent start he gave up four runs in four innings while St. Louis still got the win. Keuchel (11-3), who leads the league in victories and is second with a 2.14 ERA, is a strong candidate to start next Tuesday’s game in Cincinnati. What’s more, despite his lack of wins, Kershaw has been dominating of late. The left-hander, who made his big league debut last week, started in place of the injured Williams Perez.
Russell delivered a key single in the Cubs’ seventh-inning rally in Game 2 of Tuesday’s doubleheader.
Carpenter, who advanced to third on the hit, tied the game when right fielder Jason Heyward grounded into a fielder’s choice off left-handed reliever James Russell.
In the past 10 games, the majority went UNDER.
Brett Lawrie hit a leadoff homer in the 10th inning against All-Star reliever Dellin Betances, sending Oakland to a victory over New York.
Before the rains came, Lackey pitched one final inning and received one final gift from his defense: another inning-ending double play, this time a 3-6 tag play that was perfectly executed and a delight to behold.
Arrieta performance produced his ninth win, but wins are useless in assessing a pitcher.
Beeler tried to help his cause with a third-inning lead-off double to the center-field wall on Cooney’s first pitch. It is awesome that Wong is not on the All Star Team.
General manager Doug Armstrong announced the move Tuesday, locking up the 23-year-old Tarasenko after a season in which he made his first career All-Star game and was 10th in the National Hockey League with 73 points, including 37 goals, to go along with a plus-27 rating.
Kyle Gibson (7-6) allowed a two-run homer to J.J. He surrendered a solo home run to Drew Stubbs in the third and an RBI single to Troy Tulowitzki in the sixth that extended his hitting streak to 19 games.
McCutchen, Polanco and Rodriguez came from the Pirates’ dugout and helped pull the tarp off him.
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CLEVELAND – Dallas Keuchel pitched six innings on the same day he was selected for the AL All-Star team, leading Houston to the road win. Safe everywhere. Standing ovation and wild applause for Lester!
