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Tyler Kinley, Brent Suter, Justin Lawrence
combined to get the last nine outs for the Rockies, who took two
of three games in the series. Lawrence earned his ninth save.
The Cardinals left 15 runners on base and went 0-for-9 hitting
with runners in scoring position. They lost for the seventh time
in their last 10 games.
Reliever Zack Thompson (2-4) was the Cardinals' opener in a
bullpen start while Miles Mikolas completed his suspension.
Thompson struck out eight batters in four innings and allowed
one run on two hits and a walk.
Drew VerHagen, John King and Andre Pallante each threw a
scoreless inning and JoJo Romero shut the Rockies out for the
last two frames.
Colorado scored the game's only run in the third inning. Brenton
Doyle hit a leadoff double, moved up on a sacrifice bunt and
scored on Ezequiel Tovar's sacrifice fly.
The Rockies escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fifth inning. Lars
Nootbaar hit a one-out single and went to third on Paul
Goldschmidt's two-out double. After Gomber walked Nolan Arenado
intentionally, Tyler O'Neill hit an inning-ending groundout.
The Cardinals stranded two more runners in the sixth inning.
Nolan Gorman hit a leadoff single and moved up on Andrew
Knizner's two-out single, but Nootbaar was retired on a chopper
in front of the plate.
In the Colorado seventh, Alan Trejo reached on a one-out infield
single and Doyle followed with a single -- but Austin Wynns
grounded into a double play.
After Goldschmidt walked with one out and Arenado hit a single
in the bottom of the inning, O'Neill struck out and Gorman
popped out.
The Cardinals squandered another bases-loaded opportunity in the
eighth inning. With two outs, Willson Contreras had a pinch-hit
single. Nootbaar walked and Tommy Edman was hit by a pitch
before Goldschmidt was retired on a flyout.
--Field Level Media
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