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The Cardinals won their fourth straight series.
After starting the season 10-24, they have gone 11-3.
Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty allowed three runs on
four hits and four walks with five strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
Drew VerHagen (3-0) pitched 2 1/3 scoreless relief innings to
earn the victory.
Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw (6-4) struggled through
his shortest outing of his season. He allowed four runs on five
hits and three walks with six strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings.
Los Angeles third baseman Max Muncy was ejected by third-base
umpire Paul Emmel in the fourth inning for protesting a called
third strike.
The Cardinals took a 3-0 second-inning lead. Doubles by Nolan
Arenado, who extended his hitting streak to 12 games, and Tommy
Edman produced one run.
Brendan Donovan walked and Mercado hit a two-run double.
The Dodgers' Jason Heyward hit a double, took third on Miguel
Rojas' single and scored on David Peralta's sacrifice fly as
they cut the lead to 3-1 in the third inning.
The Cardinals made it 4-1 the next inning. DeJong walked, raced
to third on Donovan's single and scored on Mercado's single.
Heyward and Peralta walked in the fifth inning and Freddie
Freeman poked an RBI single to extend his hitting streak to 11
games. After Will Smith walked to load the bases, VerHagen
relieved Flaherty and balked home a run to trim the lead to 4-3.
The Cardinals pushed made it 7-3 in the bottom of the inning.
Arenado singled, Alec Burleson walked, Edman and DeJong singled
to produce a run -- then Mercado hit a two-run single.
Singles by Arenado and Edman followed by DeJong's three-homer
made it 10-3 in the seventh inning.
The Dodgers trimmed their deficit to 10-5 in the eighth inning
on sacrifice flies by J.D. Martinez and James Outman.
--Field Level Media
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