Louis Cardinals overcame a grand slam with help from a crucial error in the top of the ninth inning, holding on for a 10-9 win over the host Cincinnati Reds on Thursday afternoon. The St.
Louis, which won the rubber match of the five-game series and has won five of its last seven games. With St. The Cardinals, trying to stay competitive in the National League wild-card chase, added four more runs off Reds reliever Brock Burke, who had trouble with command after the Myers gaffe. Burke was charged with six unearned runs on two hits in two-thirds of an inning. Peter Strzelecki got the win in relief for St. The Reds rallied for four runs in the bottom of the ninth to cut the Cardinals’ lead to one, but left the bases loaded when reliever Riley O’Brien got Matt McLain to line out to right field to end the game. After Jordan Walker opened the scoring with an RBI groundout in the first inning, he hit a three-run home run in the third for St.
Louis down to its final out trailing 5-4 in the ninth, JJ Wetherholt’s routine fly ball to left-center field hit off the glove of Reds center fielder Dane Myers, allowing the tying and go-ahead runs to score. Louis, his 26th of the season to make it a 4-0 game.
