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Paul Goldschmidt homered in the fifth inning after hitting an
RBI single in the third, and he scored on Nolan Arenado's single
in the ninth. Molina added an RBI single in the ninth, and Dylan
Carlson hit an RBI double early in the game as St. Louis (74-69)
won for the fifth time in six games.
Edmundo Sosa and Harrison Bader added run-scoring singles in the
ninth for the Cardinals, who collected 15 hits.
The Cardinals also moved within a half-game of the idle
Cincinnati Reds for the second wild-card spot. St. Louis is tied
with the San Diego Padres, who lost to the San Francisco Giants
later Monday.
Wainwright (16-7) struck out four to move within three of 2,000
for his career. He walked three and exceeded 15 wins for the
first time since winning 20 games in 2014.
Wainwright won his fifth straight start and third in a row since
turning 40 on Aug. 30. He rarely threw a pitch above 90 mph and
threw 37 curveballs at an average velocity of 73.3 mph.
Wainwright worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the first when he
used a 74.8 mph curveball to whiff Jeff McNeil. He used his
sinker to induce a double-play grounder from Hill in the second
and escaped trouble in the fifth when Goldschmidt snagged
Michael Conforto's sharp liner to first.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the matchup between
Wainwright and Hill was the first between two pitchers at least
40 years old since R.A. Dickey pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays
against Bartolo Colon of the Mets on June 18, 2015.
Elias also said it was the first time a Cardinals player over 40
opposed another pitcher at least 40 years old since Dazzy Vance
opposed Cincinnati's Eppa Rixey on June 18, 1933.
The Mets (72-73) fell 3 1/2 games out in the wild-card race.
Hill (6-7), who fell to 0-3 in nine appearances with New York
after being acquired from Tampa Bay on July 23, allowed three
runs on six hits in five innings. He turned 40 in March.
A scary moment occurred in the second when Kevin Pillar reached
on an infield single to shortstop. After making a lunging grab
to field the grounder, Sosa unleashed a wild throw that hit
first base umpire Junior Valentine in the face near his right
ear. Valentine was bleeding but stayed in the game after getting
attention from a New York trainer.
Umpiring crew chief Jerry Meals said in a postgame statement,
"Junior is doing well. He's been checked out and has no broken
bones. He was incredibly alert from the get-go. The blood seemed
to stop fairly quickly, thankfully, and he was adamant that he
was fine."
--Field Level Media
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