San Diego 9, St. Louis 5
When: 7:15 PM ET, Saturday, August 16, 2014
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature:
80°
Umpires:
Home -
Bill Welke, 1B -
James Hoye, 2B -
Bob Davidson, 3B -
John Tumpane
Attendance:
44079
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Padres 9, Cardinals 5: Jedd Gyorko hit a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning and finished with five RBIs to help visiting San Diego rally from a pair of deficits to top St. Louis.
Jake Goebbert had a three-run triple for the Padres, who drew 10 walks while improving to 10-4 in August. Seth Smith finished with three hits and an RBI and Alex Torres (2-1) retired the only man he faced to end a rally in the sixth as San Diego pulled within six games of San Francisco for the second wild-card spot in the National League.
Matt Carpenter delivered a two-run double and Matt Adams tripled in a run as the Cardinals saw their three-game winning streak snapped. Oscar Taveras and Jhonny Peralta also had RBIs for St. Louis, which fell three games behind first-place Milwaukee in the NL Central.
Abraham Almonte and Smith each singled with one out in the seventh and Yasmani Grandal walked before Gyorko turned on a Kevin Siegrist (1-3) offering for his second grand slam of the year to make it 8-5. Smith's added an RBI base hit in the eighth to provide a four-run bulge.
Peralta recorded an RBI double to ignite a four-run rally in the second, but San Diego answered right back in the third, when Gyorko singled in a run before Goebbert cleared the bases with a triple to right to tie it. Adams followed a two-out walk to Matt Holliday in the fifth with a three-base hit to put the Cardinals up 5-4.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Padres RHP Jesse Hahn allowed five runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings while his counterpart, RHP Shelby Miller, gave up four runs while walking a career-high six in six frames. ... The game was delayed by rain in the top of the seventh inning for 1 hour, 47 minutes. ... Gyorko has 17 RBIs in his last 17 games.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Diego |
|
St. Louis |
|
Jesse Hahn |
Player |
Shelby Miller
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
5.2 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
7 |
Hits |
4 |
|
7.94 |
ERA |
6.00 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Diego
|
9 |
1 |
15 |
.265 |
14 |
7 |
9 |
10 |
1 |
0 |
| St. Louis
|
8 |
0 |
14 |
.229 |
14 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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