St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Alex Reyes (61) pitches against the Oakland Athletics during the second inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016, in St. Louis.
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But the night belonged to another rookie. Reyes gave up just two hits over 4 2/3 innings, but four walks helped drive up his pitch count and manager Mike Matheny dipped into his bullpen early. Leake is 0-1 with a 3.75 ERA and five strikeouts in his career against the Athletics.
“Once you get through those first couple of innings with that heat, you’re maxed out in sweat so there’s not much more you can do”, Triggs said. “Once (Moss) dove, I thought it would be a good time to go”.
Weaver lowered his ERA from 5.00 to 3.60. “But just believing that I can be aggressive in the zone and trusting the stuff and I think it paid off tonight”.
“Whatever works”, said Vogt, who went to the pregame meeting in his catcher’s gear. “It minimized some stress on me and saved the game run-wise”.
ASTROS 5, RAYS 4 Carlos Correa and Evan Gattis hit back-to-back home runs in the ninth inning to lift host Houston to a victory over Tampa Bay.
Jedd 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.
“I got a pitch that I was kind of looking for, a change-up, and put a good swing on that”, Gyorko said.
His last outing was Monday night against Cleveland, which he blanked for six innings on just three hits and a walk, fanning six. Manager Bob Melvin said Doolittle could return to the mound in a few days. “I think his breaking balls were a little better and he was getting ahead more so”.
The Cardinals capped the scoring in the sixth thanks to alert base running.
Eibner followed with a flyball to center field to score Healy.
Athletics: RHP Andrew Triggs (0-1, 4.38 ERA) will be making his fifth career major league start.
“It’s nice to be at home when we’re away from the field, but it’s another game once you’re here”, Detwiler said.
A native of New Jersey, Reyes was exclusively a starter for Memphis before being recalled by the Cardinals.
The St. Louis Cardinals will welcome the Oakland Athletics to Busch Stadium beginning Friday, August 26.
The Cardinals were hurt by reliever Zach Duke’s error in the eighth. He has walked two in 39 1/3 innings and his.046 walks per nine inning average is the lowest in the majors among pitchers with at least 25 innings. Thus far into his Cardinals tenure, Leake is 9-9 with a 4.56 earned run average and 108:24 K/BB ratio across 152 frames, the third-highest number of innings on the team.
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Regarded by many as the top pitching prospect in the minors before his promotion, Reyes has justified the hype in his first five big league appearances.
