PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Rookie JJ Wetherholt hit a solo homer, Iv\u00e1n Herrera had the go-ahead sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals edged the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Masyn Winn had a three-RBI night with a two-run single in the first and a sacrifice fly in the eighth.<\/p>\n
In the decisive ninth, Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn led off with a single that deflected off the glove of closer Paul Sewald. Jimmy Crooks followed with a walk, Wetherholt lined a single to center to load the bases with no outs and Herrera lofted a fly ball to left that was deep enough to break the tie.<\/p>\n
All-Star Riley O’Brien got his 25th save despite a eventful bottom of the ninth. The hard-throwing right-hander gave up a leadoff walk to Nolan Arenado before picking off pinch runner Jorge Barrosa. Tim Tawa followed with a two-out double but O’Brien caught Ketel Marte looking at strike three for the final out of the game.<\/p>\n
Cardinals right-hander Michael McGreevy gave up two runs, including one earned, on six hits and a walk over 6 1\/3 innings. The 26-year-old struck out five, walked one and has a 1.46 ERA over his last four starts.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals led 4-2 in the eighth inning, but the D-backs tied it on Corbin Carroll’s two-run homer that barely cleared the fence and hit the foul pole in right. It was the All-Star’s first homer since June 17.<\/p>\n
Wetherholt \u2014 who recently signed a $112.5 million, eight-year deal with the Cardinals through 2034 \u2014 reached base three times and crushed a 402-foot homer to right field in the fifth inning to give St. Louis a 3-2 advantage. It was the second baseman’s 14th long ball of the season.<\/p>\n
D-backs right-hander Merrill Kelly gave up three runs, but only one earned, over five innings.<\/p>\n
The D-backs will start RHP Brandon Pfaadt (3-1, 4.70 ERA) on Saturday while the Cardinals counter with RHP Dustin May (5-6, 4.55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Rookie JJ Wetherholt hit a solo homer, Iv\u00e1n Herrera had the go-ahead sacrifice fly in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,654,34327,1538,38,126,26953,1437,3448,729,1553,660,4392,4,1028,9500,9501,372,9496,9497,83120,15187,82856,4622],"class_list":["post-754989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-cardinals-diamondbacks-score","tag-corbin-carroll","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dustin-may","tag-jimmy-crooks","tag-jorge-barrosa","tag-jose-fermin","tag-ketel-marte","tag-masyn-winn","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-michael-mcgreevy","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-paul-sewald","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-tim-tawa"],"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\/754989","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=754989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}