ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Yadier Molina and Marcell Ozuna homered, Jack Flaherty tossed
six effective innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers
7-2 on Wednesday night.
The Cardinals have won four in a row and will try to sweep the four-game series
Thursday. They have outscored their opponents 19-6 during the winning streak.
Max Muncy and Joc Pederson homered for the Dodgers, who have lost three
straight after a five-game winning streak.
Paul DeJong had three hits and drove in a run with a triple in the sixth.
DeJong extended his career-best hitting streak to 11 games. He is tied with San
Francisco’s Brandon Crawford for the longest current streak in the National
League.
Flaherty (1-0) gave up three hits and one run in his 99-pitch effort. He struck
out eight and did not walk a batter. He has permitted one run over 11 innings in
his last two starts.
Molina, who drove in three runs, homered off Kenta Maeda (2-1) in the sixth to
push the lead to a 5-1. Ozuna, who had three hits, added a two-run drive in the
eighth.
Maeda gave up five runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Pederson’s one-out shot in the sixth brought the Dodgers to 2-1. Los Angeles
has gone deep in 11 of 13 games this season.
EVEN UP
The Cardinals and Dodgers have played each other 2,074 times since 1892. The
series is even at 1,029-1,029 with 16 ties.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: Ozuna was in the starting lineup after he tumbled off the outfield
fence while trying to catch a long drive Tuesday. Ozuna scaled the left field
wall, but the ball came up short and he hit the warning track face first.
UP NEXT
Los Angeles RHP Walker Buehler (1-0, 6.75 ERA) will face RHP Michael Wacha
(0-0, 1.54) in the series finale Thursday afternoon. Buehler has not allowed a
run in two career starts against St. Louis, yielding five hits over 15 innings
with 18 strikeouts. Wacha walked a career-high eight in a 6-4 loss to San Diego
on Saturday.
Game time is 12:15 with the pre-game at 11:20 on KTLO-AM.
WebReadyTM Powered by WireReady® NSI