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ST. LOUIS — Every time seems similar old-timers time astatine Busch Stadium.
Forty-year-old Adam Wainwright retired 22 of 23 batters astatine 1 constituent and 39-year-old Yadier Molina had a two-run location tally and a treble successful a 5-4 triumph implicit the Dodgers connected Wednesday night, giving Cardinals fans thing other to cheer astir erstwhile not establishing their reverence for 41-year-old Albert Pujols.
The Dodgers’ nonaccomplishment comes connected the aforesaid time the first-place San Francisco Giants (90-50) rallied to bushed the Colorado Rockies successful Denver. It was the Giants’ MLB-high eighth triumph this play erstwhile they trailed successful the ninth inning oregon aboriginal and dropped the Dodgers (88-52) 2 games backmost successful the NL West race.
Things started retired much promising than that for the Dodgers.
After Trea Turner struck retired to commencement the game, 3 consecutive Dodgers had hits disconnected of Wainwright – singles by Max Muncy and Mookie Betts and a treble by Corey Seager.
Muncy scored connected Seager’s treble but Betts was thrown retired astatine the plate.
Their adjacent deed disconnected Wainwright didn’t travel until the sixth inning, erstwhile Muncy ended a agelong of 15 consecutive Dodgers retired with a solo location tally implicit the Cardinals’ bullpen successful close field. Wainwright retired the adjacent 7 Dodgers successful bid aft that hiccup.
By the clip Muncy went deep, the Cardinals had built a pb for Wainwright with Molina doing the astir harm against Dodgers starter Mitch White.
He had a two-run location tally successful a three-run archetypal inning past doubled and scored connected an RBI azygous by Edmundo Sosa successful the fourth.
The Dodgers bushed the shot into the crushed against Wainwright and his curveball. He struck retired lone 4 but induced 12 crushed outs during his tally retiring 22 of 23. Only 3 balls near the infield from the 2nd done sixth innings (one of them Muncy’s 414-foot location run).
The offense’s drift backmost into slumber mode aft the committedness of the archetypal inning linked up with the extremity of Monday’s game, erstwhile the past 19 Dodgers batters were retired and erased the affirmative signs of Tuesday’s 7-2 triumph during which they deed 4 location runs and scored runs successful 5 abstracted innings.
The bats did aftermath up again successful the ninth inning, depriving Wainwright of an MLB-best 4th implicit crippled and getting the Dodgers wrong a tally connected singles by Trea Turner (extending his hitting streak to 15 games), Betts and Seager and a sacrifice alert by Will Smith. But Chris Taylor struck retired against Geovanny Gallegos to extremity the crippled – with Pujols lurking connected deck.
Over their past 19 games (during which they person gone 13-6), the Dodgers person deed .206 arsenic a squad and averaged conscionable 3.89 runs per game.
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