St. Louis 8, San Diego 7
When: 2:15 PM ET, Sunday, September 19, 2021
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature:
82°
Umpires:
Home -
Cory Blaser, 1B -
Tom Hallion, 2B -
Mark Ripperger, 3B -
Phil Cuzzi
Attendance:
35326
By Field Level Media
Edmundo Sosa, Harrison Bader and Dylan Carlson each drove in two runs and the St. Louis Cardinals edged the visiting San Diego Padres 8-7 to complete their three-game sweep.
Tyler O'Neill scored three runs and drove in another for the Cardinals (79-69), who extended their winning streak to eight games.
Tommy Pham drove in three runs for Padres (76-73), who have lost eight of their last 10 to fall 3 1/2 games behind the Cardinals for the second National League wild card spot.
Cardinals starter J.A. Happ allowed three runs on four hits in four innings. Alex Reyes (9-8) earned the victory in relief and Giovanny Gallegos earned his 10th save.
Padres starter Jake Arrieta (5-14) retired just one of the six batters he faced before departing with a groin muscle strain. He allowed five runs (four earned) on three hits and a walk.
The Cardinals took a 5-0 lead in the first inning. Tommy Edman led off with a double, Paul Goldschmidt hit a single, and O'Neill walked to load the bases.
Nolan Arenado lifted a fly ball to shallow center field that Fernando Tatis Jr. dropped for a run-scoring error. Carlson hit a sacrifice fly and Sosa added an RBI double before Arrieta departed.
Bader greeted reliever Craig Stammen with a two-run double to make it 5-0.
The Padres got one run back in the third inning on Tatis' RBI single.
They cut the lead to 5-3 in the fourth inning on Manny Machado's single, Austin Nola's double, Eric Hosmer's RBI groundout, and Wil Myers' RBI single off Happ's foot.
The Cardinals pushed their lead to 7-3 in the fifth inning. Goldschmidt lined a double, O'Neill hit an RBI single, Arenado reached on an infield single, and Sosa dropped an RBI double into right field.
Pham's solo homer in the sixth cut the lead to 7-4, but the Cardinals made it 8-4 in the seventh with Carlson's RBI single.
Jake Cronenworth and Machado hit singles to open the eighth inning and Pham hit a two-run double. Hosmer's run-scoring grounder pulled San Diego to within 8-7.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| San Diego |
|
St. Louis |
|
Jake Arrieta |
Player |
J.A. Happ
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
0.1 |
IP |
4.0 |
|
0 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
3 |
Hits |
4 |
|
108.00 |
ERA |
6.75 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Diego
|
10 |
1 |
16 |
.286 |
8 |
6 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
| St. Louis
|
11 |
0 |
16 |
.333 |
15 |
6 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
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