The Cardinals hopes for claiming a series win over the Padres was put on hold Saturday night as San Diego limited St. Louis to just three hits in its 3-1 victory.<\/p>\n
Matthew Liberatore returned to the mound for the first time in two weeks and took the loss. He wasn\u2019t \u201cbad\u201d Saturday night, but he wasn\u2019t exactly inspiring a lot of confidence in his outing either. Liberatore only pitched 4.1 innings, allowing two runs (one earned), five hits, walked two, and struck out three.<\/p>\n
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Pitching opposite of Liberatore for San Diego was Randy Vasquez, and he gave the Cardinals fits despite a short outing. In just 4.2 innings of work, Vasquez allowed St. Louis its lone run, and gave up one hit, walked another, while striking out a pair.<\/p>\n
Ironically, on a night where St. Louis made some highlight worthy plays in the field, it was the two that they didn\u2019t that proved to be the difference.<\/p>\n
San Diego\u2019s first run of the night came in the second inning, and it was aided by a Victor Scott error. With a runner on first and two out, Bryce Johnson singled up the middle, but Scott bobbled the ball. The miscue and some hustle by Jake Cronenworth allowed San Diego to grab a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
All would be forgiven in the home half of the inning, however, as a Jordan Walker double to center scored Nolan Arenado to even the score. Unfortunately, that would be the only run the Cards would score.<\/p>\n
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Cronenworth continued to be a pest for St. Louis, and led off the fourth inning with a double to right field. San Diego small balled its way to a 2-1 lead after back-to-back productive ground ball outs.<\/p>\n
For the second straight night, tempers flared after a hit batter. It all started when Vasquez plunked Willson Contreras, and warnings were issued to both benches. Manny Machado would get hit by a Liberatore pitch in the fifth inning, but took his base with no issue; however, Machado would get hit for a second time in the ninth inning, this time by Andre Granillo, which led to the benches clearing and Jon Jay getting ejected.<\/p>\n
The HBP, clearly, wasn\u2019t intentional. It\u2019s the ninth inning, St. Louis is down two runs, with a runner already on first base, and Machado was down on an 0-2 count before he got hit. These two teams are going to be seeing a lot of each other over the next week or so, and with the Cardinals and Padres battling for a wild card, tensions are going to be high.<\/p>\n
St. Louis will try to claim this four-game series tomorrow afternoon as Michael McGreevy is set to take the mound opposite of Stephen Kolek. Here\u2019s hoping there\u2019s not an all-out brawl tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n
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