Gyorko made him pay, lashing a 1-0 fastball 420 feet into the left-center field bleachers as the crowd of 41,012 roared its approval.
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The Cardinals go for the series sweep on Thursday evening in a game you can hear on KMA-FM 99.1.
Martinez said he also dealt with the issue last season and awoke with a nosebleed on Wednesday. Kluber was suffering from a right calf cramp with the temperature at 90 degrees and the heat index 99 at the start of the game.
The 25-year-old right-hander, who last pitched on July 6, allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings. The Cardinals have homered in a season-best 10 straight games, totaling 20 in that time.
Each team had seven hits.
In his last two starts he has stuck out twenty-one. San Diego may have a couple of guys on the shelf in this one though as they won’t want to run the risk of any of their trade chips getting injured and while majority are pitchers there are some quiet milling that they could part with the resurgent Wil Myers.
Padres pitchers have surrendered homers to Gyorko five straight games. It was his fifth homer in as many games against his former club.
After grounding out in the seventh, Gyorko is now hitting. 619 (13 for 21) with six homers and 10 RBIs against San Diego. Kiekhefer was 0-0 with a 5.73 ERA in 11 appearances earlier this season…. OF Matt Carpenter (oblique) and 1B/OF Brandon Moss (ankle) played light catch together.
The Padres knocked Jaime Garcia from the game in the sixth. Derek Norris doubled with one out and Adam Rosales walked with two down.
Seth Maness relieved Garcia and got a groundout to end the inning.
Ryan Schimpf homered in both games for San Diego with his sixth and seventh of the season.
The threat ended with a Tommy Pham groundout. Seung Hwan Oh got the save, his second of the day and fourth this year.
Christian Friedrich (4-6) gave up four runs – three earned – and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. In that span, he’s hitting.
Gyorko is 10 for 17 against his old team and has homered in each of the last four games.
“Honestly, I can’t explain it, ” Gyorko said after his two-run shot put the Redbirds on top to stay Wednesday afternoon. St. Louis started the four players who didn’t start in Game 1 – SS Greg Garcia, CF Tommy Pham, LF Jeremy Hazelbaker and C Alberto Rosario – in the nightcap.
They replace Aledmys Diaz, Randal Grichuk, Matt Holliday and Yadier Molina.
San Diego opened with Jankowski’s double and Schimpf’s two-run homer but had just two more hits off Martinez.
Gyorko has four consecutive three-hit games against San Diego and four career multi-homer games.
Rea had been 2-0 with a 3.68 ERA in his previous four starts.
YANKEES 2, ORIOLES 1 Alex Rodriguez hit his 696th career homer – his first since June 18 – Ivan Nova (7-5) grinded through six innings and Aroldis Chapman hit 105 miles per hour while locking down his 19th save.
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Clemens has never faced the Cardinals.
