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Donovan's leadoff blast gave Chris Roycroft
(1-0) his first major league win. Roycroft got the last out of
the sixth and the first of the seventh. The Cardinals' Matthew
Liberatore logged two-thirds of an inning, Ryan Fernandez worked
around a walk to strike out three in the eighth and Andrew
Kittredge notched his first save of the year with a scoreless
ninth.
Masyn Winn and Jose Fermin each had two hits and one run for St.
Louis.
Oneil Cruz finished with two RBIs as Pittsburgh lost for the
third time in four games. Pirates starter Mitch Keller (8-4)
lasted six innings, giving up four runs and eight hits. He
didn't issue a walk and struck out four.
Goldschmidt hit a two-run homer in the third and Pedro Pages
added an RBI single in the fourth to give the Cardinals a 3-0
lead, which evaporated in the fifth.
St. Louis starter Lance Lynn allowed the first three batters of
the fifth to reach, with Jack Suwinski and Michael A. Taylor
sandwiching walks around a Yasmani Grandal single to load the
bases with no outs.
Lynn responded by striking out Ke'Bryan Hayes, but Bryan
Reynolds drove in Suwinski with a single.
That marked the end of the day for Lynn, who was pulled in favor
of John King. Cruz greeted King with a two-run single to tie
things at 3-all. Lynn yielded the three runs on four hits in his
4 1/3 innings, walking three with five strikeouts.
Pittsburgh failed to do more damage in the frame, as Edward
Olivares grounded into an inning-ending double play.
Pirates right-hander Hunter Stratton departed in the eighth
inning with a shoulder injury, manager Derek Shelton confirmed
to reporters after the game.
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