“The play was to see the ball through the middle, stay if it was on the corners”, Davis said.
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Reyes is carrying an ERA of 0.00 into his start in just over nine innings of work out of St. Louis’ bullpen, so it will be interesting to see if he can carry over that dominance into his first major league start.
Gyorko’s 423-foot shot in the first extended the Cardinals’ home run streak to 15 games, the longest active streak in the majors, and made it 2-0 after just two batters. Seung Hwan Oh relieved Bowman and induced a grounder from Max Muncy.
When Reyes is forced to expand his offering beyond his four-seam fastball, which he’s thrown 89 times in his first 150 big-league pitches according to FanGraphs, the results could be different. That put the go-ahead run at third base with one out, and Brett Eibner delivered a sacrifice fly that gave the A’s a 3-2 lead.
Easily throwing in the high-90s, Reyes finished with a line of 4.2 innings pitched, with two hits, one run (earned), four walks, and four strikeouts.
Cardinals rookie pitcher Luke Weaver picked up his first Major League win in the Cardinals 3-1 triumph over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night at Busch Stadium.
Athletics: Rookie LHP Sean Manaea (5-8, 4.53) starts the opener of a three-game series at Houston seeking his first road win. “Probably guilty of over-throwing a little bit-especially early, but he had an impressive run of being able to make some really tough count pitches and using his secondary stuff to get him out of trouble”. “I don’t think we get fazed by much, and I know I take a lot of pride in moving on from one start to the next”. Ryan Madson pitched the ninth for his 27th save in 33 chances.
Davis drew a bases-loaded walk off reliever Zach Duke in the fifth, forcing Bruce Maxwell home to cut the Cardinals’ lead to 2-1.
Prior to the game, the Cardinals inducted former players Joe Torre, Chris Carpenter and Terry Moore, as well as former club president Sam Breadon, into the team’s Hall of Fame. He underwent surgery on the knee on July 5 to remove a cruciate ligament cyst and was supposed to go out on a Minor League rehab assignment on Saturday.
Cardinals: Manager Mike Matheny said Leake first displayed symptoms of shingles on Monday and has been healing slowly.
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Leake will be missing his first start of the season after going 9-9 with a 4.56 ERA in 25 turns. What’s more, Oakland (56-73) has lost 16 of the last 20 games when opponents start a left-hander and its 13-21 record against lefty starters is the worst in the AL.
