“Overall, I thought his stuff was good”. Your job today: poll ten baseball fans you know and ask them if they know what team Ryon Healy and Joey Wendle play for. He allowed one unearned run and struck out three.St. Louis trailed 3-2 after four innings but forged a 3-3 tie in the sixth when Yadier Molina reached on right fielder Adam Frazier’s error and scored on Randal Grichuk’s single.That’s the way it stayed until the eighth, Kang – in his second start since coming off of the disabled list after a shoulder injury – led off for Pittsburgh with a homer into the visiting bullpen in center for a 4-3 lead.Cardinals Mike Leake, who was activated from the DL after a bout with shingles, started for the first time since August 21. Coming off a four-hit shutout of the Reds on August 31, Nolasco retired the first 16 A’s in order, and he took a shutout into the eighth inning.
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Orioles 11, Rays 2: Manny Machado capped a six-run fourth inning with a grand slam, and Chris Davis and Adam Jones also homered for Baltimore. However, as the Cardinals stunned him with three home runs to take the win in Game Two, he did not allow the Cardinals the same result in the final game.
The Cardinals are percentage points ahead of the New York Mets for the second NL wild card, and the Pirates pulled within 4 ½ games of St. Louis.
“He’s a tough out against everybody”, manager Mike Matheny said.
Chicago won just three of its last nine, but Detroit fell to 12-6 against the White Sox this season.
Fast-forward to tonight’s affair, two outs again and Carpenter stepping in, Watson was able to induce a pop-up to right field, sealing a Pirates victory. “I’m at a loss”.
The Cardinals were down to their last strike when Carpenter sent a long drive to right-center to tie it 6-6. Not that we needed one, but it’s a reminder that winning is nice, even if the Pirates have consigned themselves to the fringes of the playoff race. Opponents have outscored them 47-22 during the slide, including a 12-6 setback on Monday night in which the Cardinals simply overpowered Pittsburgh’s struggling pitching staff.
Playing at home at the PNC Park in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Kang’s first solo jack came at the bottom of the fourth inning when he belted an 82-mile-per-hour changeup by Pirates starter Luke Weaver.
St. Louis rookie outfielder Jose Martinez made his long-awaited major league debut when he entered as a pinch-hitter in the seventh. His 3.22 ERA is the highest since his first full year in the majors in 2012. Sal Perez had to leave the game in the sixth after being hit by a pitch in the wrist. Postgame X-rays were negative and Piscotty doubled as a pinch-hitter in the eighth.
Pirates: Pittsburgh held C Francisco Cervelli out of the lineup a day after he experienced discomfort in his left hand trying to block a pitch. In turn, Pittsburgh wasn’t hesitant to put the Korean-born slugger on the disabled list following an injury against the Miami Marlins.
Mike Leake went 4 1/3 innings in his first start for the Cardinals since August 21 after being sidelined by the shingles virus.
The #Pirates end their losing streak with a 4-3 win over the #Cardinals.
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Cardinals: LHP Jaime Garcia (10-11, 4.41 ERA), who has lost his last three starts, faces Milwaukee RHP Junior Guerra (7-3, 2.85) on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game home series.
