Pirates starter Chad Kuhl (3-3) was in trouble from the very beginning. Pittsburgh Pirates’ Gregory Polanco sits in the dugout during the ninth inning of the Pirates’ baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals in Pittsburgh, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
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The Orioles have won four of their last five and moved within one game of first-place Toronto, which lost 7-6 to the New York Yankees on Tuesday, in the American League East.
“I know I’ve had bullpens like that”. The Cardinals loaded the bases against Ryan Vogelsong thanks in part to a moment of hesitation by first baseman John Jaso in which Jaso tried to throw out Kolten Wong at third rather than tag first for an easy out. One of Kang’s solo jacks of the day came against his fellow Korean, Oh Seung-hwan, the closing pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Molina turned Vogelsong’s next pitch into his first grand slam since 2012, the 25th straight game the Cardinals have homered, a club record. Pittsburgh has been outscored 47-22 during its longest skid in two years. Carpenter said Mabry made his living off pinch hitting and has given a good solid approach to the young players on the team who end up pinch hitting often and even the veterans who have been here a while. “Just go out tomorrow and hopefully get the job done”. He’ll try to keep NY close in the AL wild-card chase when he starts at home vs.
Even if it’s felt a little too much like Groundhog Day of late. He was pulled after throwing just 30 of his 58 pitches for strikes in the shortest outing of his brief career. “Thought I could get it”. “He didn’t have a lot”.
“Winning beats the heck out of losing”, Hurdle said.
He played 126 games in 2015.
BREWERS 12, CUBS 5 Jonathan Villar homered to start a five-run first inning against Jason Hammel, and Milwaukee cooled off visiting Chicago with a victory. He hardly needed to be sharp as the Cardinals battered Pittsburgh’s beleaguered pitching staff.
The Cardinals finished with five home runs in all, including Matt Adams’ 436-foot drive over the seats in right field that plopped into the Allegheny River on the bounce.
“We hugged and shed a few tears together”, Williams said. “I’m sure being off a couple of weeks played a factor”.
Wainwright’s double to the wall in center field put the Cardinals in front and Stephen Piscotty’s two-run double later in the inning gave Wainwright an early cushion, one he flirted with giving away.
Reyes entered in the bottom of the fifth to help Leake and the Cardinals avoid slipping behind further than a run with a Pirate in scoring position.
Jeff Locke came on relief of Kuhl in the third and the Cardinals quickly went to work.
“I’m speechless”, manager Mike Matheny said.
More than two weeks removed from his seven shutout innings against the team on the other side of Pennsylvania, Mike Leake returns to the Cardinals’ rotation, looking for a footing and aiming for a sweep.
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– Catcher Francisco Cervelli left the game after striking out in the bottom of the fourth inning with discomfort in his left thumb. C Elias Diaz, who was expected to be recalled Tuesday from Triple-A Indianapolis, has instead been shut down for the season after undergoing surgery for a bacterial infection in his left leg.
