By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The St. Louis Cardinals bounced back from a tough luck series against the Detroit Tigers in a big way, sweeping the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 4-3 win on Sunday afternoon at Busch Stadium.
The sweep didn’t come easy as for the first time in the series it was the Cardinals that had to come from behind, as Arizona took the lead in the first inning, Eugenio Suárez singling and driving in Ketel Marte and Josh Naylor.
St. Louis cut the lead to one in the bottom half of the inning, Iván Herrera singling home Brendan Donovan. Masyn Winn tied up the game in the bottom of the third inning, a solo home run to left field, his sixth home run of the season that sailed 397 feet.
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The Diamondbacks took the lead back in the top of the sixth inning, Pavin Smith singling to drive in Suárez, but the Cardinals tied up the game again the bottom half of the inning after Winn, who walked to open the inning and raced to third on a single by Donovan, scored on a sacrifice fly by Herrera.
In the seventh inning, it was Victor Scott II who delivered the clutch go ahead hit for St. Louis. The D-backs adjusted just the way the numbers called for them to bringing in left-handed pitcher Jalen Beeks out of the bullpen against the left hander Scott. Despite hitting just .191 this season against lefties entering Sunday — .121 points less than his batting average against right-handed pitchers — Scott drilled a hard-hit single that Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte couldn’t handle to plate Jordan Walker and put the Cardinals ahead 4-3.
JoJo Romero pitched a scoreless eighth, just walking one batter, before Phil Maton came on in the ninth, striking out two and giving up one hit on way to his second save of the season. John King, who pitched the seventh, earned his first win of the season. At the plate, Donovan led the way going 3-4 with one run scored. Walker was 2-3 with a run scored as well.
St. Louis hits the road tomorrow and travels to Baltimore. Erick Fedde (3-3, 3.77 ERA) takes the mound for the Cardinals against Charlie Morton (0-7, 7.68 ERA) for the Orioles. First pitch is at 2:05 with pregame being joined at 1:55 on KY 102 (102.5 FM).
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