“That might be my best bolt”, Adams said.
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ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball returns to the National League, as the St. Louis Cardinals host the Los Angeles Dodgers in the rubber game of a three-game weekend series.
Adams homered for the second consecutive game. They beat the Padres on Thursday after scoring a run in the ninth inning.
Matt Holliday doubled home a run in the first.
“I feel like we’re playing good baseball”, St. Louis starter Michael Wacha, who worked six innings on Friday night, said.
Cardinals: To make room on the team’s 25-man roster for Mayers, St. Louis optioned RHP Miguel Socolovich to Memphis following Saturday’s game.
Kenley Jansen got his 29th save in 34 opportunities with a spotless ninth.
It not only was Jansen’s second blown save of the trip, it was his fifth of the season.
Adams’ homer capped another dramatic come-from-behind win in the late innings. “I just wasn’t placing the ball exactly where I wanted it”.
“I’m not sure how he had that much left in the tank”, Gyorko said. “I know I wouldn’t have been able to hit one that far”.
St. Louis seems to have seen enough to add him to an already strong pitching rotation. “But the likelihood of us needing some arms down there is pretty high”, Matheny said. “It was well done”.
Justin Turner and Howie Kendrick homered for the Dodgers. Los Angeles has lost four of six. The red-hot Turner has seven homers and 17 RBI this month.
Tommy Pham: Two-run home run. He was hitless in three at-bats and had a sacrifice fly.
San Diego left runners in scoring position in each of the last two innings.
“We can’t break through”, Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said.
Kendrick’s solo shot in the sixth tied the game 2-2. He has hit in 14 successive games trying Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon for the longest current streak in the majors. He became the first pitcher to allow nine or more runs with fewer than two innings pitched in his big league debut since at least 1913. McCarthy struck out four and walked three. “I felt like that was the probably the hardest part, just slow the game down”.
St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Mike Mayers, right, talks with catcher Yadier Molina after allowing a grand slam to Los Angeles Dodgers’ Adrian Gonzalez during the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, July 24, 2016, in St. Louis.
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. Now the Dodgers will try to bounce back on Saturday with their wild-card lead down to one game over St. Louis and Miami.
His 2016 season has been split between Springfield (AA) and Memphis (AAA)- with nine starts at each level, posting a combined record of 10-6 with a 2.62 ERA in 106.2 innings pitched.
“It’s a scary one”, Matheny said.
Dodgers reliever Adam Liberatore recorded his 28th successive scoreless outing by retiring two of four batters in the seventh. He averages 11.4 strikeouts per nine innings against righties but also has allowed 12 home runs. The same starting five have taken the mound all season long.
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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. Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig (right hamstring) didn’t start for the second straight game.
