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St. Louis managed just four hits, including
Masyn Winn's two-run homer in the third. Miles Mikolas (8-9)
suffered the loss for the Cardinals, who dropped three of four
in the series.
After a scoreless first two innings, Lars Nootbaar led off the
top of the third with a single for St. Louis. Winn launched his
ninth homer of the year two batters later, giving the Cardinals
a 2-0 lead.
With Chicago still trailing in the bottom of the fourth, Isaac
Paredes laced a one-out single. Tauchman then doubled, and
Dansby Swanson followed with an RBI groundout.
With two outs and Tauchman on third, Mikolas balked in another
run to tie the score 2-2.
In the bottom of the fifth, Amaya and Nico Hoerner singled to
put runners on the corners for Chicago. Michael Busch then
singled in the go-ahead run. After walking Seiya Suzuki to load
the bases with nobody out, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol
pulled Mikolas for John King.
Cody Bellinger drove in Hoerner with a sacrifice fly, putting a
stamp on Mikolas' stat line. The St. Louis starter allowed four
runs on eight hits in four-plus innings, walking two and
striking out three.
With King still pitching in the bottom of the sixth, Tauchman
led off the inning with his sixth homer of the season. King
retired Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong, and was then replaced
by Ryan Fernandez. Amaya greeted the new reliever with his
fourth homer of the season, giving the Cubs a 6-2 lead.
Tommy Pham lined out to begin the seventh. Alec Burleson reached
on Paredes' fielding error. Steele then walked Brendan Donovan
but struck out Nootbaar.
After 99 pitches, Steele was replaced by Porter Hodge, who
escaped the inning by retiring Pedro Pages on a flyout to left.
Hodge, Tyson Miller and Julian Merryweather combined for 2 1/3
scoreless innings out of the Chicago bullpen.
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