St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs

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St. Louis Cardinals

56-54, 27-29 Away

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3 - 6

Chicago Cubs

54-58, 29-25 Home

Bethancourt, Busch homer in 5-run 2nd inning as Cubs spoil Fedde's debut with Cardinals 6-3

Tyson Miller (3-1), the first of four relievers, earned the victory and Héctor Neris picked up his 15th save as Chicago won its third straight game against its NL Central rivals.

The Cubs’ big inning came against Fedde (7-5), who was acquired earlier in the week from the White Sox in a three-team trade.

“I had terrible command,” Fedde said of the second inning. “It brought me to long at-bats where I couldn’t put people away.”

The 31-year-old right-hander gave up the first five runs and six hits and finished with four strikeouts in five innings.

“We had a really good second inning and put pressure on them right away,” said Cubs manager Craig Counsell, whose team needed a three–run ninth to top the Cardinals a night earlier.

Rookie Pete Crow-Armstrong added an RBI single in the second before Bethancourt hit a three-run homer to right-center field.

“I was just trying to hit the ball in the gap,” Bethancourt said. “Thank God I got that one very well and hit it out of the park.”

Busch followed a batter later with a solo shot.

Seiya Suzuki scored from second in the eighth inning after Kyle Leahy’s errant pickoff throw dribbled into center field.

The Cardinals got all three runs by drawing bases-loaded walks. Paul Goldschmidt earned the first off Assad in the third, and Tommy Pham and Brendan Donovan got two-out passes in the eighth from Julian Merryweather and Neris, respectively. Neris struck out pinch-hitter Brandon Crawford to end the threat.

Masyn Winn added two hits for St. Louis, which has dropped five of its last eight games.

Cubs starter Javier Assad allowed four hits, walked three and struck out three in the opening four innings.

St. Louis’ Kyle Gibson (7-4, 3.97 ERA) faces fellow right-hander Jameson Taillon (7-6, 3.35) on Saturday.

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Matchup Prediction

Cubs: 54.7%

Cardinals: 45.3%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Contreras grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Burleson struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Winn lined out to second.
	8th Inning	Hoerner grounded out to shortstop.
	8th Inning	Paredes grounded out to third.
	8th Inning	Suzuki scored.

Statistics

STL		CHC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	9
8	Strikeouts	6
3	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	1
9	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	32
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
17	Runners Left On Base	8
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
14	Fly Balls	17
1	Caught Stealing	1
177	Pitches	149
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
4	Total Bases	17
39	Plate Appearances	33
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
0	Extra Base Hits	4
1.6	Runs Created	4.6
.133	Batting Average	.250
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.133	Slugging Percentage	.531
.267	Secondary Average	.313
.333	On Base Percentage	.273
.467	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.804
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
1.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.9
16.0	Batter Rating	41.5
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	16.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
4.54	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.52
.000	Isolated Power	.281
1.13	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.17
.231	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.030
.133	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.063
6.0	Runs Produced	11.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.8
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
66.5	MLB Rating	87.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0