ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Lars Nootbaar hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth inning and Jordan Walker also homered as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-5 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Nootbaar hit a 2-1 pitch from Sam Moll (1-4) 433 feet into the right-center field bleachers to put St. Louis ahead.<\/p>\n
Nootbaar, who made his season debut Friday night after opening the season on the 60-day injured list while recovering from surgery on both heels, entered the game as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n
George Soriano (3-0) pitched a scoreless eighth inning, and Riley O\u2019Brien allowed two hits and a walk in the ninth inning but got Sal Stewart to ground out to second with the bases loaded to earn his 16th save in 20 chances this season.<\/p>\n
Matthew Liberatore allowed five runs, three earned, on four hits and three walks in 4 1\/3 innings for the Cardinals, who have won three straight.<\/p>\n
Walker hit a homer to right-center field in the fifth inning that just barely cleared the wall to cut the Cardinals deficit to 5-4. His 16th home run of the season matched his career-high set in his rookie season in 2023.<\/p>\n
Matt McLain lined his sixth homer of the season to left field in the top of the fourth inning to give the Reds a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n
Noelvi Marte and McLain walked to lead off the third inning and scored on Alec Burleson’s fielding error. Spencer Steer hit a sacrifice fly to left field that scored Dane Myers to tie the game 3-all.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals took a 3-0 second-inning lead when Victor Scott II hit an RBI single, and Masyn Winn added a two-run single.<\/p>\n
Nick Lodolo allowed four runs on nine hits in five innings for Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Reds RHP Rhett Lowder (3-3, 5.40 ERA) will face Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (3-5, 2.98) in Sunday\u2019s rubber match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Lars Nootbaar hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth inning and Jordan Walker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1894,5,160,1951,30968,4679,1179,1553,1401,1453,4392,4,1331,542,9500,9501,9496,9497,82856,83365,89946,6967,21752,6513,9611,6288,673,67,4311,4310,5942],"class_list":["post-719200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-alec-burleson","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-dane-myers","tag-george-soriano","tag-jordan-walker","tag-lars-nootbaar","tag-masyn-winn","tag-matt-mclain","tag-matthew-liberatore","tag-michael-mcgreevy","tag-mlb","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-noelvi-marte","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40806-ap-ohio-sports-only","tag-reds-cardinals-score","tag-rhett-lowder","tag-riley-obrien","tag-sal-stewart","tag-sam-moll","tag-spencer-steer","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-victor-scott-ii"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}