The Cards host the Miami Marlins Sunday afternoon and are expected to start Carlos Martinez. Lackey surrendered nine hits, including a sixth-inning Justin Bour home run, but it was yet another solid start for the veteran right-hander, who now boasts a 2.87 ERA through 159 2/3 innings this season for St. Louis.
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“A special night for Ichiro to tie Ty Cobb”, Marlins manager Dan Jennings told reporters. “There’s really nothing I can do”.
Suzuki’s fifth-inning single moved him one step closer to a legitimate Major League Baseball milestone: 3,000 hits. The Miami Marlins have lost six of their last seven road games. He was hitting. 243 with four homers and 20 RBIs in 144 at-bats, and the club is hoping that he might be able to take a rehab assignment before their full-season affiliates end their season on September 7.
It was Mathis’ grounder that set the game-changing inning into motion.
“I’ve got my first hit, my first RBI, and now this”, he said. A two-out walk to Brandon Moss and a single to center by Carpenter but runners on first and third and brought Piscotty to the plate.
The right-hander, who also has baseball’s fifth-best ERA in day games at 1.47, has won five consecutive decisions as a starter since losing to Minnesota on June 17. Hechavarria was first called out, but the play was overturned after a 2 minute, 50 second replay review.
“I tried to get out of it in a good way, but sometimes bad things happen”, Martinez said through an interpreter.
Home runs have become a bigger part of Piscotty’s game. “Sometimes it’s good, and sometimes it’s bad”.
St. Louis’ John Lackey, left, pitched into the ninth inning against the Marlins and had two hits Saturday.
After cracking a game-tying homer in the first, Heyward then belted a two-run shot in the third, his 11th of the year and his first multi-homer game since August 17, 2013, when he played for Atlanta.
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Phelps threw one more pitch, an 88 miles per hour fastball to Randal Grichuk, before walking behind the mound and immediately receiving a visit from a Miami trainer.
