St. Louis Cardinals at Colorado Rockies

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St. Louis Cardinals

81-77, 37-40 Away

Final
5 - 2

Colorado Rockies

60-98, 36-41 Home

Erick Fedde fans 10 as Cardinals beat Rockies 5-2 for 4th straight win

Pedro Pagés had two RBI singles and Thomas Saggese added a pair of hits for the Cardinals, who have won four straight and will try to complete a series sweep in Thursday’s finale.

Brenton Doyle homered leading off the bottom of the ninth against Matthew Liberatore, who was relieved by Ryan Helsley after issuing a one-out walk to Michael Toglia. Sam Hilliard then grounded into a game-ending double play on the first pitch he saw from Helsley, who earned his 48th save in 52 chances.

Helsley tied the club record for saves in a season by Trevor Rosenthal, who also had 48 saves in 2015.

“One pitch. Awesome job. It’s a good way to do it. But he came in and made it look awful easy,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “He’s worked so hard for this. He’s taken the ball a lot and he’s been extremely effective.”

Aaron Schunk had an RBI single for the Rockies (60-98) who need to win three of their final four games to avoid their second straight 100-loss season. Colorado lost a franchise record 103 games last season. The Rockies close out the season with a weekend series against the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers.

Fedde (9-9) went seven innings and allowed one run on six hits, snapping a string of four consecutive losing decisions. His 10 strikeouts were one shy of the career high he set against Minnesota on April 23 while with the Chicago White Sox. The Cardinals acquired him on July 29 as part of a three-team trade with the Dodgers and White Sox.

“It’s a dream ending in a sense,” Fedde said. “It just reminds me of what I’m capable of. This just will give me a great taste in my mouth heading into the offseason and stuff to grow off of.”

Austin Gomber, a former Cardinal, went five innings and allowed four runs on seven hits. Colorado acquired Gomber (5-12) along with four other players by sending Nolan Arenado to St. Louis in a February 2021 trade. Gomber has become a fixture in the Rockies rotation.

“He hung in there,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “He made 30 starts this season, pitched 160-some innings. He pretty much answered the bell the whole season. Tonight he competed, let it all hang out. They nicked him for four runs in five innings. Some good pitches they just got hits off of. He just got out-pitched today by Fedde.”

Saggese’s two-out double in the top of the second scored Herrera from second. In the third, Winn tripled and scored on Brendan Donovan’s sacrifice fly to put the Cardinals up 2-0.

The Rockies got on board with Schunk’s RBI single in the bottom of the third but the Cardinals answered with runs in the fourth and fifth on Pagés' RBI single and Paul Goldschmidt’s sacrifice fly, which scored Winn after he doubled and moved to third on a groundout.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: LHP JoJo Romero, one of the team’s top pitchers in the bullpen, was placed on the 15-day injured list ahead of Wednesday’s game with left forearm inflammation. The move was retroactive to Sunday. RHP Chris Roycroft was recalled from Memphis (AAA) to fill Romero’s roster spot.

Rockies: RHP Ryan Feltner, who allowed two runs on six hits in six innings Tuesday night against St. Louis before being lifted due to forearm tightness, threw on the side Wednesday with no issues and is expected to start the Rockies’ final game of the season Sunday against the Dodgers. “He feels fine today,” Black said. “In the daily pitchers’ throwing program, he felt fine. It was just one of those games last night, after the sixth, he felt a little bit of tightness in the forearm.”

RHP Kyle Gibson (8-8, 4.13 ERA) is slated to start Thursday’s series finale for the Cardinals. He’ll be opposed by Colorado LHP Kyle Freeland (5-8, 4.95 ERA).

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Matchup Prediction

Rockies: 42.0%

Cardinals: 58.0%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Hilliard grounded into double play, pitcher to shortstop to first, Toglia out at second.
	9th Inning	Helsley relieved Liberatore
	9th Inning	Toglia walked.
	9th Inning	McMahon grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Doyle homered to left center (400 feet).
	9th Inning	Liberatore relieved Kittredge

Statistics

STL		COL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
16	Ground Balls	11
7	Strikeouts	11
5	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	3
2	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	11
1	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	2
13	Fly Balls	9
0	Caught Stealing	1
138	Pitches	114
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
14	Total Bases	14
38	Plate Appearances	33
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	3
4.5	Runs Created	3.2
.265	Batting Average	.290
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.412	Slugging Percentage	.452
.176	Secondary Average	.194
.289	On Base Percentage	.333
.701	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.785
1.2	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.2
4.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.3
37.5	Batter Rating	24.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.63	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.45
.147	Isolated Power	.161
0.14	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.18
.026	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.061
-.088	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.097
10.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
85.0	MLB Rating	78.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0