The Cardinals and Reds will wrap up a three-game series today at 12:35PM ET and with Michael Wacha on the mound, St. Louis has been successful in this matchup.
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The Cardinals (68-39) did not threaten towards Reds starter David Holmberg till the sixth, when the primary two batters reached by way of a stroll and successful batsman.
Bumgarner (12-6), last year’s World Series MVP and a three-time All-Star, allowed seven hits, one run and struck out nine in 7 1-3 innings.
Matt Carpenter hit a tying homer in the eighth off Hoover, and Randal Grichuk connected in the 13th inning, rallying the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday night.
Grichuk ended a long night for both teams when he launched a 1-0 pitch from Dylan Axelrod into the left field seats for his 13th homer this season.
Seth Maness (4-1) pitched two scoreless innings to earn the victory.
“I see him every day”, Reds manager Bryan Price said. We were able to string things together, but we couldn’t come up with that knockout blow.
After Texas scored three unearned runs in the first inning off Scott Kazmir (6-6), the Rangers’ second started with Gimenez homering to straightaway center for a 4-0 lead. “We simply could not put it away”. Brayan Pena’s double made it 2-0.
Matt Carpenter, who you might have noticed is on a hot streak of late, would go on to homer in the top of the eighth, tying the game at three apiece. It was Carpenter’s fifth homer in his last six games. “That’s not what I wanted to do”.
Carlos Martinez got burned by an error and walks as the Reds picked away at him for a 3-0 lead.
Reds third baseman Todd Frazier drove in a run with a bases-loaded grounder within the fourth, making the rating Three-Zero.
The Cardinals have played 15 extra-inning games, going 7-8. The Reds are 5-2 in their last 7 games as an underdog and 1-5 in Lorenzens last 6 starts.
Lorenzen pitched 5.2 innings in his last outing, surrendering five runs, striking out six and walking three in a 5-4 defeat to the Pirates.
Heyward extended his hitting streak to seven games (10 for 22). 353 with four homers and eight RBIs in 11 games this season against the Cardinals.
The Rangers have won four in a row and seven of eight, moving within five games of the division lead, the closest they have been since June 30. Jay Bruce, Marlon Byrd and Eugenio Suarez each had run-scoring hits in the 30-pitch inning.
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Alejandro De Aza hit an RBI double in the second inning and Ortiz homered off Luis Severino in the fourth. Phillips checked to see if the catcher was all right as he shook off the hit. Reds LHP Sean Marshall threw a 22-pitch bullpen session composed mostly of fastballs. The rookie has never faced the Cardinals, but has not fared well at home, posting a 1-3 record and 4.80 ERA in nine appearances (eight starts).WALK-OFFS1.
