The Pirates served as the visiting team in the
makeup game and batted in the top-half of innings even though it
was played at PNC Park.
Paul DeJong added an RBI single for St. Louis (24-24), which was
playing its third doubleheader in five days.
Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer for the Pirates (15-36), who
have lost nine of their past 10.
Cardinals starter Daniel Ponce de Leon, pitching on short rest,
struck out nine in five innings. He allowed two runs and three
hits, and walked two.
Andrew Miller (1-1) pitched the sixth, striking out the side in
order.
Pittsburgh starter Chad Kuhl (1-3) pitched five-plus innings. He
gave up four runs, with just one earned, struck out six and
walked two.
Kuhl held St. Louis to one single through three innings. In the
fourth, Tommy Edman led off with a single. He went to second on
Paul Goldschmidt's base hit. After Brad Miller struck out,
DeJong dropped a single into shallow left field. Edman scored
for a 1-0 Cardinals lead.
The Pirates took the lead in the fifth. Jacob Stallings drew a
one-out walk and two batters later Reynolds hit his fifth homer,
a 436-foot bomb to right that cleared the stands and bounced
into the Allegheny River.
In the Cardinals' half of the sixth, Edman walked, Goldschmidt
reached on Stallings' catcher's interference and Brad Miller
walked to load the bases. Chris Stratton replaced Kuhl.
DeJong's sacrifice fly brought in Edman to tie it. Tyler O'Neill
hit a grounder to third, and third baseman Ke'Bryan Hayes threw
wide of home, his error allowing Goldschmidt to score for a 3-2
St. Louis lead. Matt Carpenter's fielder's choice and first
baseman Josh Bell's throwing error allowed Harrison Bader,
pinch-running for Miller, to score.
Then came the only hit of the inning, Carlson's three-run homer
to right-center, his second, to make it 7-2.
Stallings was ejected in the seventh for arguing balls and
strikes.
--Field Level Media
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