Both determined, confident and on a mission to get the win. They both gave up three earned runs and saw that tie go into the bottom of the ninth.
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Hunter Pence’s double delivered a 1-0 win for the San Francisco Giants over the San Diego Padres and a four-run eighth-inning helped the Oakland Athletics defeat the Seattle Mariners 5-0. But, with Anthony Rizzo’s ground out, Zobrist was left stranded. Lackey avoided further damage by whiffing Matt Holliday for the third out, stranding men at first and second.
But the Cardinals (24-21) are known for pouncing on mistakes here, even as a third-place team that hasn’t been playing up to the franchise’s usual standards.
This will be the third game of the series this week. Actually he had the bases loaded with only one strike out on the board. That was enough offense for Cody Anderson (1-3), who struck out a career-best nine over seven innings as the Indians snapped a three-game skid.
Miami Marlins’ Ichiro Suzuki, of Japan, hits a single during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Monday, May 23, 2016, in Miami.
The loss was the Cubs fourth in six games to start a nine-game road trip.
Here’s video of Rizzo’s RBI single.
Cardinals reliever Seung Hwan Oh follows Wainwright in the seventh and as Oh does so well, no emotion, confident, the “Stone Buddha” takes out the side. The Cubs have a 2-10 record when opponents outhit them. He got two, needing seven pitches to fan Brandon Moss but inducing a groundout by Yadier Molina. It was Adams’ sixth career pinch-homer, two off the club record held by George Crowe.
The Cubs let Trevor Rosenthal off the hook in the ninth.
Lackey gave up three runs in seven economical innings. Soler is getting a bit better at working counts to get his pitch, though he still gets turned inside out when an opposing hurler pitches him backward.
Lackey replaced Wainwright as the ace of the Cardinals’ staff previous year when the latter was sidelined for four months with an Achilles tendon tear.
Randal Grichuk wields a cannon for the walk-off win. For the fifth pitch of the at-bat, Warren went back to the slider…
The Cubs are 8-0 in Arrieta’s last eight game threes of a series, and 5-0 in Arrieta’s last five Wednesday starts. Especially since the Cubs would have had Rosenthal out of the game, and had Pedro Strop and Hector Rondon ready for extras, a real pitching advantage. But, the Cardinals take the glory and baptize Grichuk with a cooler of ice water for his victory.
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TIGERS 5, PHILLIES 4: At Detroit, Miguel Cabrera hit two of Detroit’s four solo homers, then scored a tiebreaking run on Victor Martinez’s seventh-inning single to lead Detroit past Philadelphia. Hammel has been very strong to begin this season, and will no less for this second match-up. John Lackey gets the nod for the first game. That trio has won 17 of their 20 decisions on the season. No matter the outcome in the next two games, one certain fact – they will be hard fought by both teams in this Major League Baseball grand rivalry.
