“That’s just the result of good at-bats”, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said.
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The Chicago Cubs are just coming off a 3-3 home stand that ended with them being swept by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Michael Wacha pitched effectively into the seventh inning, and the Cardinals waited out Jake Arrieta before roughing up Chicago’s bullpen in a 7-2 victory Wednesday. This one came in the third inning, with the Cardinals up 2-1, and Aledmys Diaz dancing off first base.
“As soon as I saw Yadi reach over and I saw it go through, I made an aggressive move and cost us the game today”, Almora said. Their three-game skid matches the longest of the season.
Cubs manager Joe Maddon said that Miguel Montero (knee) checked out fine in his post-game examination.
“I really wasn’t pitching like myself in the first couple innings”, he said.
Carpenter and Holliday connected against Hammel (7-3) in a three-run third inning that made it 4-1.
And, by the time Wednesday evening rolled around, the mood in the antique, cramped visiting clubhouse at Wrigley Field was about as buoyant as it has been all season.
White Sox (36-36) at Red Sox (39-32), 1:35 p.m. ET – James Shields (2-9, 6.28 ERA) takes his 22.84 ERA since being acquired by Chicago into the battle of the Sox looking to stop the bleeding on the mound.
Gonzalez plated George Springer with a 435-foot blast that put Houston ahead 2-1.
Bottom Play (WPA): It seems that I’ve spent half my life writing about Matt Holliday home runs against the Chicago Cubs.
It is also worth noting that the up-and-coming catcher in Contreras blasted a two-run home run, his second as a big league player, during his lone at bat in favor of his veteran counterpart. Just win baseball games.
George Springer singled with one out before Gonzalez hit a towering fly ball just to the right of straightaway center field off Matt Shoemaker (3-8).
Wacha had a very rough start the first time he faced the Cubs this year.
Kyle Ryan got the win after he came on with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth and struck out pinch-hitter Franklin Gutierrez and got Robinson Cano to ground out to end the inning.
Kyle Seager hit a two-run homer off Justin Verlander in the sixth to give the Mariners a 2-0 lead, but Detroit scored a run in the sixth and another in the seventh to tie it. First baseman Anthony Rizzo has done well against Wacha over the years, going 11-for-27 in their matchups with two home runs and four RBI.
Noah Syndergaard had an injury scare as the New York Mets edged the Kansas City Royals 4-3.
METS 4, ROYALS 3 Matt Reynolds (Arkansas Razorbacks) snapped a sixth-inning tie with his first major league home run, leading Noah Syndergaard and NY past visiting Kansas City for a two-game sweep in their World Series rematch. He now has a 4.73 ERA on the season with a 1.31 WHIP.
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Milwaukee’s Junior Guerra struck out eight in seven innings for his first victory in more than a month, guiding the Brewers past Oakland 4-2. J.A. Happ (9-3) won his third consecutive start and maintained his streak of never having given up more than two earned runs in his fifth start against the Diamondbacks, who left nine runners on base. Cardinals now lead 4-1 top of the third with no outs.
