Martinez struck out eight in a crisp performance and Matt Carpenter had four hits, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday.
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The Cardinals built a 3-0 lead after three innings, with the lineup’s top four hitters accounting for 10 of the team’s 12 hits on the day. Jeremy Jeffress pitched the 9th inning, giving up a solo home run before retiring the next 3 Cardinals, in the 3 to 1 victory.
Davies was never better than in the eighth inning, when he struck out the side.
“He used his breaking ball to steal strikes early in the count”.
“He’s seeing the ball well”, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.
It left St. Louis’ sluggers frustrated after entering the day second in the National League with 71 homers and a.460 slugging percentage.
Matt Carpenter, putting together his first four-hit game of the season, had two doubles and two singles and scored three times, once from second on a wild pitch.
“He does a good job of mixing pitches even though he has good velocity”, Presley said.
The top of the order got to Peralta again in the fifth inning when Carpenter, Diaz and Holliday collected consecutive singles with one down, with Holliday knocking in his second run. “But he had a lot of traffic and a lot of stress innings”. Tuesday’s 10-3 hitting clinic gave the Cardinals a Miller Park win-loss record of 77-47.
Milwaukee squandered opportunities for more offense by leaving the bases loaded in the first and third. “A kid doesn’t guarantee you’ll go out and get four hits, but it’s certainly one less thing to think about”. Both of those runs scored in a rough first inning for Garcia. Matt Carpenter went 4-for-5, reaching home three times on Monday.
Red Sox 7, Orioles 2 – At Baltimore: Xander Bogaerts extended his hitting streak to 23 games and drove in two runs, and Jackie Bradley put Boston ahead for good with a sixth-inning homer. Presley said the ball had drifted and fell just behind him and to his right. “He kept us off balance with his fastball coming in and threw that changeup away”. He lost 7-0 in his first start this season against the Cardinals on April 14 at Busch Stadium. The move opens up a roster spot for left-handed reliever Will Smith, who will be reinstated from the disabled list Wednesday more than two months after suffering a knee injury in spring training.
“It’s pretty clear he’s locked-in, ” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.
St. Louis Cardinals’ Jaime Garcia pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the … Right-handed ace Adam Wainwright (5-3) gets the start.
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The southpaw is 10-4 with a 2.45 ERA in 17 regular-season starts against the Brewers. He has a 3.00 ERA in his last three outings there.
