Cardinals pull away from D-backs, 8-4
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[July 05, 2018]
St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina
had two hits, including a three-run homer to cap a five-run seventh
inning, and Tommy Pham added three hits and three RBIs as the
Cardinals took the rubber game of a three-game series with an 8-4
victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday in Phoenix.
Yairo Munoz homered to open the seventh inning to tie the game at 2
off Yoshihisa Hirano (2-1), breaking Hirano's 26-game scoreless
streak. Pham added an RBI single after an infield error before
Molina homered off Fernando Salas.
Matt Carpenter had three hits and Miles Mikolas (9-3) gave up two
runs in six innings for the Cardinals (44-41). St. Louis was in
danger of dropping to within one game of .500 for the first time
since April 14.
Jon Jay had three hits, David Peralta had two hits and Jake Lamb had
an RBI single for Arizona, which has lost five of six after winning
seven of eight.
Mikolas gave up seven hits and four walks while striking out three.
Both he and Arizona starter Patrick Corbin entered the game in the
National League's top 10 in ERA, WHIP, WAR and innings pitched among
qualifiers.
Corbin allowed six hits and one run in six innings, with two walks
and six strikeouts. He has given up two earned runs and struck out
23 in his past three starts, covering 19 innings, but all were
no-decisions.
Arizona scored twice in the fourth inning off Mikolas to break a
scoreless tie. Jarrod Dyson walked and took second on Corbin's
one-out sacrifice bunt before Jay singled to left.
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Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina (4) hits a three run home run
against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the seventh inning at Chase
Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
Dyson slipped as he rounded third base and went back to the bag, but
he scored when third baseman Carpenter overthrew second base
attempting to catch Jay advancing. Lamb singled to drive in Jay for
a 2-1 lead.
Dyson was forced to leave in the seventh inning with an apparent
groin injury.
Carpenter hit the second of his two doubles with one out in the
fifth inning and scored on Pham's single to cut the deficit to 2-1.
The Diamondbacks used a walk, a single and Carpenter's second
throwing error to score two runs in the bottom of the seventh to
close within 6-4 before Carpenter and Pham had RBI hits in the
eighth.
In giving up Munoz's homer, Hirano finished one scoreless appearance
short of former Boston Red Sox right-hander Koji Uehara's major
league record for a Japanese-born player, 27, set in 2013.
--Field Level Media
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