By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The St. Louis Cardinals have been trending in the right direction as of late, but saw a minor setback against the top team from the American League Central, falling to the Detroit Tigers 5-1 in the series finale Wednesday afternoon at Busch Stadium, losing the series 2-1.
Detroit opened the scoring in the second after back to back singles by Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson, Colt Keith grounding into a sacrifice double play that allowed Greene to race home for a run. In the fourth inning, Torkelson doubled home Greene for another run, and Greene scored again in the sixth inning on a Dillon Dingler pushing the Tigers to a 3-0 lead.
St. Louis scored their lone run in the bottom half of the sixth, Willson Contreras singling home Victor Scott who singled to start the inning. In the eighth, Detroit added the final two runs, a Trey Sweeney sacrifice fly first scoring Torkelson before Javier Báez singled to drive in Keith.
Cardinals starter Andre Pallante took the loss, falling to 4-3 on the season, pitching 5 2/3 innings giving up three runs on four hits, striking out three and walking four. Alec Burleson led the Cardinals, who had just five hits, at the plate going 2-4.
St. Louis has an off day on Thursday and will welcome Arizona to town on Friday. Miles Mikolas (3-2, 3.77 ERA) is set to start for the Cardinals while the Diamondbacks starter is listed as TBD. First pitch is at 7:15pm, pregame coverage being joined at 7:05 on KY 102 (102.5 FM).
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