St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 5
When: 8:15 PM ET, Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature:
69°
Umpires:
Home -
Cory Blaser, 1B -
Jeff Nelson, 2B -
Lazaro Diaz, 3B -
Chris Guccione
Attendance:
40143
By The Sports Xchange
ST. LOUIS -- A shakeup in the St. Louis Cardinals' batting order led to their best offensive game of the year.
Every starter either drove in a run or scored one, all in the first three innings, Tuesday night as St. Louis outscored the Philadelphia Phillies 11-5 at Busch Stadium.
First baseman Matt Adams led the 15-hit onslaught, going 3-for-4 with two RBI. Left fielder Matt Holliday also banged out three hits and drove in a run. Center fielder Jon Jay, who moved from the seventh spot to the leadoff position, collected a pair of run-scoring singles.
Third baseman Matt Carpenter, the leadoff hitter in his last 174 games, dating back to the start of 2014, tripled and doubled as the No. 2 batter. Right fielder Jason Heyward dropped from second to sixth and reached base all four times up, drawing three walks and scoring two runs.
Even pitcher Michael Wacha joined in on the fun, knocking in two runs and drawing a walk that helped extend the Cardinals' two-run rally in the fifth.
Wacha (4-0) went 5 2/3 innings for the win, giving up six hits and four runs with two walks and four strikeouts.
St. Louis (13-6) cuffed Philadelphia starter Severino Gonzalez (0-1) for 10 hits and seven runs over 2 2/3 innings.
Center fielder Odubel Herrera and second baseman Chase Utley each knocked in two runs for the Phillies (8-13), while shortstop Freddy Galvis went 3-for-4 with two runs.
Philadelphia starter Severino Gonzalez teamed with veteran catcher Carlos Ruiz to form the first all-Panamanian battery in major league history. But the 22-year-old Gonzalez had a big-league debut he would just as soon forget.
St. Louis picked up two runs in the first inning on an RBI double by Holliday and a run-scoring single by Adams.
The Cardinals scored two more in the second when starter Michael Wacha's infield out plated catcher Yadier Molina, followed by a two-out RBI single from Jay.
The Phillies collected two runs in the third when Herrera rifled an RBI double to right-center and then scored on a single by second baseman Chase Utley.
But the Cardinals knocked out Gonzalez with three more runs in their half of the third.
Shortstop Jhonny Peralta and Molina lofted sacrifice flies, and Wacha stroked an RBI single to end Gonzalez's night.
Philadelphia drew within 7-4 in the fifth on RBI groundouts by Herrera and Utley after it filled the bases with no outs. But St. Louis reciprocated in its half of the fifth with Jay's two-out infield hit, which scored a run, followed by Carpenter's run-producing ground-rule double.
NOTES: St. Louis announced Tuesday that it will call up LHP Tim Cooney from Triple-A Memphis to make his major league debut in Thursday's series finale. Cooney will have to be added to the 40-man roster prior to the start. ... Philadelphia optioned OF Domonic Brown to Triple-A Lehigh Valley following the completion of a 20-day rehab assignment. Brown is 5-for-36 in nine games with the IronPigs after going 5-for-17 with Class A Clearwater. ... The Phillies optioned RHP Hector Neris to Lehigh Valley to make room for their starter Tuesday night, RHP Severino Gonzalez.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Philadelphia |
|
St. Louis |
|
Severino Gonzalez |
Player |
Michael Wacha
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
2.2 |
IP |
5.2 |
|
0 |
Strikeouts |
4 |
|
10 |
Hits |
6 |
|
23.62 |
ERA |
6.35 |
Hitting
| Philadelphia |
|
St. Louis |
|
Freddy Galvis
| Player |
Matt Adams |
|
3 |
Hits |
3 |
|
0 |
RBI |
2 |
|
0 |
HR |
0 |
|
3 |
TB |
4 |
|
.750 |
Avg |
.750 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Philadelphia
|
9 |
0 |
11 |
.265 |
18 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| St. Louis
|
15 |
0 |
20 |
.429 |
16 |
4 |
11 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
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