Cardinals freeze out Cubs, 5-3
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[April 18, 2018]
Matt Carpenter knocked in three
runs Tuesday night, and Paul DeJong homered as the St. Louis
Cardinals stretched their winning streak to five games with a 5-3
verdict over the host Chicago Cubs at frigid Wrigley Field.
Adam Wainwright (1-2) picked up the win by tightroping through five
innings. He yielded four hits and an unearned run, walking four and
striking out five while plunking two hitters. Wainwright stranded
nine men during his stint.
Tyler Chatwood (0-3) absorbed the loss despite giving up just one
hit and fanning seven over 4 2/3 innings. He issued seven walks, two
of which came around to score in the third inning, and permitted two
runs.
St. Louis improved to 10-7 on the year and 8-3 on the road. The Cubs
fell to 7-8 for the year and dropped to 2-4 on their season-opening
homestand.
The main storyline was the weather. Game-time temperature was 35
degrees with the wind chill at 29, conditions not very far off from
Monday night's postponement caused by cold weather and occasional
snow flurries.
Both starters had trouble controlling their pitches, and it caught
up to Chatwood in the third. After walking Dexter Fowler and Tommy
Pham, he gave up his only hit, an RBI double to Carpenter for the
game's first run. Marcell Ozuna's groundout plated Pham for a 2-0
edge.

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Chicago got a run back in the fourth when Jason Heyward stroked an
RBI single to right, scoring Addison Russell. The run was unearned
thanks to a Wainwright throwing error.
The score held at 2-1 until a wild eighth inning. DeJong drilled a
two-out solo homer to left-center, his fifth. After the Cardinals
filled the bases on a pinch-hit infield single by Harrison Bader, a
walk to Fowler and Pham's infield hit, Carpenter lined a two-run
single to center.

Javier Baez scorched a two-run homer deep to left-center in the
Cubs' half of the eighth off Greg Holland. Chicago got the tying run
to the plate in the ninth, but Bud Norris polished off his fourth
save by slipping a called third strike past Kyle Schwarber.
--Field Level Media
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