He did not hurry his stride as he sailed through seven innings, only gave up four hits, issued one walk and fanned seven holding the Rockies scoreless. And he couldn’t be happier.
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“I was on time for the most part tonight”, he said. And he would like to remain in Denver. If you like emotional pitchers (I do) the Cardinals have two of the best in Martinez and Wednesday’s starter John Lackey.
“That one I got all of”, Piscotty said. St. Louis, which improved to 24-10 in its last 34 meetings with Colorado, upped its mark to 38-15 at Busch Stadium this season while the Rockies fell for the 17th time in its last 22 road contests. Reliever Jonathan Broxton was acquired yesterday in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Colorado has lost three straight.
Grichuk who was playing with discomfort to his groin area missed two rather routine plays to center.
Cardinals’ starter Martinez (11-4) pitched five innings, allowed ten hits, five earned runs, and struck out six Colorado batters. Following his previous start, a 3-2 loss to Atlanta on Sunday, Wacha made a few minor adjustments.
“He’s a very good pitcher, every emotional”, Dickerson said. “The ball just gets on you”.
Both Randy Choate and Seth Maness pitched in relief of Wacha and held onto the shutout.
Carpenter, who hit two homers and drove in four runs in a 9-8 win over Colorado on Thursday, also had a double and reached three times. By the second inning, the Cards had jumped to a 4 to at least one lead with the assistance of the primary of two of Carpenter’s residence runs.
It was Carpenter’s seventh career leadoff homer and third this season.
This was his first profession two-home run recreation. “The velocity was down”. With his fastball velocity reduced to 83 miles per hour, the Cardinals teed off on him for two runs in the first. Along with the strong offense we have seen in the first two games, another repeat performance would definitely help in that venture.
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Kendrick is scheduled to undergo an MRI on Monday in Denver. However, the Cardinals continued their run fest with a RBI single by Kolten Wong. In the bottom of the fifth once again the Red Birds’ tied the score at five on Carpenter’s second homer of the night and took the lead six to five on a Jason Heyward triple which scored Jhonny Peralta. He needed 100 pitches to finish his stint and was actually in line for a win before the Cardinal bullpen quickly coughed up the lead in the sixth. Peralta hit his 15th homer off Christian Friedrich. I think it’s safe to say he will be holding that spot in the lineup for a while now. “I’ve had the breath knocked out of me before, but it was to another level”.
