The Cardinals tied the game with two runs in the eighth off Fernando Rodney.
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“That ball has got to be caught”, he said.
Aledmys Diaz remained in Florida on Sunday evening to visit with a hand specialist Monday morning and determine the severity of damage caused by a 95 miles per hour fastball.
St. Louis pitcher Carlos Martinez, who escaped with a no-decision after allowing four runs in seven innings, seemingly retaliated with two outs and one on in the bottom of the first by hitting Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton in the back. But the Cardinals are preparing as if Diaz will miss at least a few days this week. Cards starter Jaime Garcia was charged with six runs on seven hits over 3.1 frames with Tyler Lyons giving up two before Jerome Williams allowed three unearned runs. “Thank God it’s nothing too serious”. “We don’t know anything yet”.
In Toronto, Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Troy Tulowitzki hit solo home runs in the first inning and Marco Estrada snapped a four-start winless streak. Piscotty was able to come all the way home with the tying run after Hechavarria airmailed the relay into the stands in a futile attempt to throw out Tommy Pham at the plate. Johnson was charged with an error on the play.
“It was his throwing hand”, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said. Neither did. Hazelbaker pulled up, and Pham went into an awkward slide to avoid diving into his teammate.
The Marlins are missing Justin Bour at first base. Tom Koehler will be shooting for win number three in a row when he opposes the Cardinals Sunday.
“It still feels the same today as it did last night so I’m just kind of waiting right now”, Rea said.
The Marlins gained a split on the weekend with back-to-back wins to take the season series 4-3 from the Cardinals for only the fifth time in their history.
St. Louis has won four of five and leads the Marlins by one game in the NL wild-card standings. According to Baseball-Reference, he has been worth 3.1 wins to the Cardinals this season.
A day after the team suggested that Peralta would not go on a rehab assignment, the veteran infielder started a brief one with the Class A Palm Beach team. He hit a fly to left in the eighth and remained two hits away from 3,000 in the major leagues. “That’s the position he knows best”. Only one of those runs were earned in an outing that saw Cashner strike out two.
RAYS 6, YANKEES 3 Drew Smyly (Little Rock Central, Arkansas Razorbacks) struck out Alex Rodriguez three times en route to stopping an 11-start winless streak, and host Tampa Bay sent NY to its third consecutive loss. In that game, Cashner nailed Matt Holliday in the nose with a 95 miles per hour, high-and-tight fastball.
“It just boils down to making pitches for me – just stay down in the zone and let the defense work”. Cashner was back in the same location Sunday. “I don’t know if I could have thrown another pitch, but we’ll see”.
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“It’s never a spot where I want to hit a guy”, he said. “It’s unsafe to pitch up and in on anybody, really”.
