Mayers was a third-round pick in 2013.
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Louis Cardinals right-hander Mike Mayers one of the worst major league debuts ever.
Leake was tagged with seven runs, one of them unearned, and allowed 12 hits over six innings.
“Absolutely not. Pile on”, Roberts said with a sly smile. They’re also tied for the best in not ging up home runs, allowing only 86 long balls so far this season. To see that power surge come was a big boost for us.
But, for the St. Louis Cardinals, this is the case.
“Then we basically held on”.
Red-hot Justin Turner made the Cardinals pay for the miscue with a two-run double three batters later.
Aledmys Diaz reached safely for the 26th straight game with a first-inning single.
The Dodgers are hitting the ball well as of late and Kazmir has allowed just four runs in his last three games combined. I didn’t have a grip. “I’m getting myself in good hitters’ counts and looking for something hard out over the plate”. It was tough out there. “I was drenched coming out of the bullpen”. The key blows were Adrian Gonzalez’s grand slam in the first, pitcher Scott Kazmir’s two-run single in the first and Howie Kendrick’s two-run homer in the second.
“I feel like my stuff plays up here”, he said, “but I just didn’t make pitches”.
“I felt like most everything was just a little bit off”, McCarthy said.
St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said he felt for his starting rookie.
They will likely need a sixth starter for the Sunday night game against the Dodgers, thanks to a rain out earlier in the homestand.
“He was amped up for sure”. “I think it’s guys trying to do too much and guys getting out of their approaches”. That’s as close as the game would get. It was the first time the Dodgers have scored six runs to start the game this season.
Cheered on by hundreds of orange-clad fans in the Giants’ old hometown, San Francisco escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the 10th when Casilla (2-3) retired Brian McCann on a shallow flyout and Starlin Castro on a foulout. Gonzalez crushed a fastball 427 feet to center for his fifth career grand slam and first since August 26, 2010.
“He’s huge”, outfielder Joc Pederson said. Brad Brach surrendered a two-out, two-run single to Lonnie Chisenhall in the ninth before Zach Britton got the final out for his 32nd save.
Trevor Brown hit an opposite-field double to right off Anthony Swarzak (1-1) leading off the 12th, and Williamson singled up the middle with one out, just past the glove of diving shortstop Didi Gregorius.
Four batters in, the Dodgers had a 4-0 lead.
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Kenta Maeda throws during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday, July 23, 2016, in St. Louis.
Dodgers left-hander Scott Kazmir turned all that support into his ninth win against three losses, lasting five innings on a night where the heat index at game time was 108 degrees.
The temperature at the start of the game was 96 degrees. But it’s positively fresh compared to the Dodgers (54-44), who used eight pitchers Thursday in a 6-3 win at Washington and nine more on Friday night/Saturday morning.
The Cardinals will add Mayers to their 25-man and 40-man rosters following tonight’s game against the Dodgers. St. Louis remains a game behind the Marlins for wild-card number two.
The temperature at the start of the game was 96 degrees. Carpenter, sidelined since July 6 with a strained right oblique, took swings in the outdoor batting cage and ran the bases Sunday.
Dodgers: On Tuesday, Bud Norris (5-9, 4.56) will square off against Tampa Bay’s Chris Archer (5-13, 4.60).
Our ESPN Chalk team of Major League Baseball handicappers, who try to help you end your betting week on a winning note, returned from our midseason break with Joe Peta and Erin Rynning suffering a rare loss with the Boston Red Sox (-120) as they fell 3-1 to the New York Yankees, but Dave Tuley won with under 7.5.
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Cardinals: Martinez (9-6, 2.83) faces the New York Mets’ Noah Syndergaard (9-4, 2.43).
