Leake had his second straight double-digit strikeouts game with no walks, joining Bob Gibson as the only Cardinals to accomplish the feat, and St. Louis beat the San Diego Padres, 10-2, on Monday night (Tuesday, Manila time). Gyorko has homered in five consecutive games against the Padres and is 13-for-21 with six blasts and 10 RBIs in six meetings this season. The game will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday with the first game at 2:15 p.m. and the second game at 8:15 p.m.
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Gyorko has four consecutive three-hit games against San Diego and four career multi-homer games, with both long balls in Game 2 off Paul Clemens (1-1).
Tim Beckham, Rays: Going a ideal 5 for 5 against the Rockies at hitter friendly Coors Field, Beckham connected on four singles (two run-scoring) and a double to boost his slash line to a still poor.213/.280/.407.
The Cardinals go for the series sweep on Thursday evening in a game you can hear on KMA-FM 99.1. The Padres have homered in a franchise-record 16 consecutive games. Lester (10-4) allowed one run – Wilmer Flores’ leadoff homer in the seventh – and four hits in his first win in a month.
Friedrich (4-6) gave up four runs – three earned – and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He had five walks, two more than he’d totaled the previous three starts. The No Runs DMC triad, possibly in its final days with Andrew Miller and Chapman rumored to be on the trade block, covered the final three innings to extend its scoreless streak to 22 innings.
Starter Jaime Garcia (7-6) pitched into the sixth and got the win, receiving relief help from Seth Maness, Tyler Lyons, Jonathan Broxton, Kevin Siegrist and Seung Hwan Oh. The Cardinals are 2-5 in their last 7 during game 4 of a series and 39-17 in Wainwrights last 56 starts.
“I’m far from Superman”, he said. Padres RF Matt Kemp needs one home run to reach 20 for the seventh time in his last eight seasons.2.
San Diego opened with Travis Janikowski’s double and Ryan Schimpf’s two-run homer but had just two more hits off Martinez (9-6), who pitched seven innings.
But it never got the tying run aboard after Schimpf homered for the second straight game.
PITTSBURGH – Jonathan Lucroy had a two-run single in the sixth inning and finished with three RBIs in Milwaukee’s victory over Pittsburgh. “So, hopefully just keep it going and try to stay locked in as long as I can”. Kevin Gausman (1-7) also allowed Brian McCann’s sacrifice fly in the third and fell to 0-1 in three starts against NY this season despite a 1.31 ERA over 20 2/3 innings.
Jose Fernandez tied a career-high with 14 strikeouts, and Martin Prado hit a solo homer off Brett Oberholtzer in the 11th.
NOTES: St. Louis recalled LHP Dean Kiekhefer from Triple-A Memphis Wednesday to serve as the 26th man for the doubleheader.
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Boston won for the eighth time in nine games and moved into first place in the AL East, a half-game ahead of the Baltimore Orioles.
