St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs

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St. Louis Cardinals

57-54, 28-29 Away

Final
5 - 4

Chicago Cubs

54-59, 29-26 Home

Cubs' eighth-inning fielding mix-up allows Cardinals to rally for 5-4 win

St. Louis trailed 4-1 in the eighth before newly acquired third baseman Isaac Paredes threw wildly past first on Brendan Donovan’s grounder off Porter Hodge, allowing Alec Burleson to score from second on the error.

Arenado hit a fly to short center that second baseman Nico Hoerner called for and was readying to catch when rookie center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong called him off. Crow-Armstrong couldn’t get to the ball, which dropped 213 feet from the plate as two runs scored.

“I called it when I shouldn’t have. Simple as that,” Crow-Armstrong said. “I know better. I just did a poor job checking.”

Pham led off the ninth with a drive against Héctor Neris (8-4) that hit off the glove of leaping Ian Happ and the ivy on the left-field wall as Pham slid into third.

“It looked like he caught it,” Pham said of Happ’s try. “But that’s a brick wall behind — I’ve been on the other end of those kinds of plays here.”

Pham scored on Lars Nootbaar’s flyout.

Pham also doubled and is hitting .471 (8 for 17) since returning to the Cardinals, who acquired him from the Chicago White Sox.

“He’s been phenomenal,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “He likes playing meaningful games.”

JoJo Romero (5-1) pitched a perfect eighth and Ryan Helsley a 1-2-3 ninth for his major league-leading 34th save in 37 chances, stopping Chicago’s three-game winning streak.

Burleson hit his 18th home run for St. Louis, a drive to right in the first inning originally ruled in play. A video review determined the ball hit the bricks above the right-field wall.

Michael Busch hit a two-run homer in the bottom half, going deep for the second straight day.

Crow-Armstrong had a run-scoring triple in the second and scored on Miguel Amaya’s sacrifice bunt back to the mound for a 4-1 lead.

Cubs starter Jameson Taillon allowed one run and six hits in six innings, while Kyle Gibson combined with two relievers on a five-hitter, giving up four runs and five hits in seven innings.

“Giving the team a chance to win looks a lot different every single time and, thankfully, the offense made this outing stand up and gave the team a chance to win," Gibson said. "They did a great job scratching out runs.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: CF Michael Siani left in the middle of the eighth inning because of right oblique tightness and will be evaluated before Sunday’s game.

Cardinals RHP Miles Mikolas (8-8, 4.99 ERA) faces Cubs LHP Justin Steele (2-5, 3.38) in Sunday night’s series finale.

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Matchup Prediction

Cubs: 56.1%

Cardinals: 43.9%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Hoerner lined out to center.
	9th Inning	Paredes lined out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Bellinger popped out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Helsley relieved Romero
	9th Inning	Burleson grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Winn grounded out to first.

Statistics

STL		CHC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	7
6	Strikeouts	8
4	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
9	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	1
1	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	4
1	Triples	1
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
16	Fly Balls	17
0	Caught Stealing	0
140	Pitches	115
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
15	Total Bases	10
38	Plate Appearances	33
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
4.6	Runs Created	1.9
.257	Batting Average	.161
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.429	Slugging Percentage	.323
.200	Secondary Average	.226
.289	On Base Percentage	.188
.718	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.510
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
4.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.9
34.5	Batter Rating	27.5
35.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.68	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.48
.171	Isolated Power	.161
0.17	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.13
.026	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.030
-.057	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.065
9.0	Runs Produced	8.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
84.8	MLB Rating	74.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0