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– Joe Panik laced a two-run double and San Francisco rallied from an early 5-1 deficit to beat the Pirates 7-6 in Pittsburgh. Holliday hits his thirteenth home run to center field. “They know how to win, and you can never count them out”. Their three-game skid matches the longest of the season.
PITCHING FOR THE CARDINALS: Michael Wacha (2-7, 4.56 ERA). (Many starters would have found it at least decent, but not Jake.) That was in the middle of a six-start stretch in which his ERA “ballooned” to 2.92.
Conley (4-4) threw 114 pitches – two short of his season high. He held Atlanta to four hits, one hit-by-pitch, one wild pitch and one walk, striking out four. The Cardinals aided the rise with a five-game losing streak in the past week at home, and made their first visit to Wrigley at a tipping point.
Then came Monday. The Cards were entering the friendly confines of Wrigley Field for a three-game series with their rivals from the Northside.
He has won his only start against the Cardinals this season, but he allowed four runs on seven hits in five innings. Roberto Osuna pitched a ideal ninth to earn his 14th save of the season.
– Jason Kipnis belted a three-run homer and Trevor Bauer fired a three-hitter while striking out 10 in Cleveland’s sixth straight win, 6-1 against Tampa Bay.
– Russell Martin crushed a three-run homer and J.A. Happ improved to 9-3 with Toronto’s 5-2 triumph over Arizona.
The Cardinals’ confidence wasn’t as low as it might have seemed after the winless homestand because they had an opportunity to beat Texas, but made a key mistake or two in all three games to lose heartbreakers.
The Indians, who also got a two-run home run from Jason Kipnis, have won six games in a row overall and 11 in a row at home.
ORIOLES 7, PADRES 2 Ubaldo Jimenez interrupted his exile to the bullpen with a sharp performance in a starting role, and Baltimore defeated visiting San Diego.
Trumbo had not homered since June 7 but hit a solo shot in the second inning, his 21st this season. In his previous six starts against the Cardinals, it was 3.19.
Matt Wieters led the way with two RBIs while Hyun Soo Kim, Chris Davis, Jonathan Schoop, Trumbo and Flaherty each drove in a run.
Justin Grimm replaced Arrieta and was charged with four runs while getting one out in a nightmare sixth for Chicago before Contreras hit his second big-league home run. The Cubs starter loaded the bases in the fifth with one out. That’s what the Cardinals did, forcing him through long, draining innings that got his manager fretting about his pitch count. One out later, Lawrie connected off Uehara (2-3). Wainwright gave way to the bullpen in the seventh with the tying run on base, and the relievers nudged the game through its final seven outs. Bogaerts finished 3-for-5. The Cardinals only scored two runs off Arrieta and neither of them would have scored if not for a throwing error. He struck out eight and walked two and yielded five hits.
The 2016 Game Thread procedure will be the same as the one used at the end of 2015.
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The runners were stranded when Zobrist grounded to second to close the inning.
