Cardinals lose 8-2 to Cubs, magic number down to 2

Even the Cardinals (90-70) missing their 3rd successive game after winning 6 in a row. If 11-7 were missing by second-place Milwaukee in Colorado their magical number for clinching their very first division title had been pitched into two.

I was pitching five innings of all one-run ball nine struck. Since Chicago wasn’t able to place any such thing collectively, However, the right-hander left having a no-decision.

Even the Cubs moved to stick using seven longer. Robel Garcia along with also a Happ homered. The weekend was trapped. Miller (5 6 ), Helsley and also Giovanny Gallegos permitted all Chicago’s runs soon right immediately following Dakota Hudson struck out 10 in 5 scoreless innings.

St. Louis jumped before Matt Carpenter’s 14 th homer in the fourth. However, Happ tied it when he led off the first time with his ninth homer away Gallegos. St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Andrew Miller falls ahead of the dugout after getting relieved by the mound throughout the seventh inning of the baseball match from the Chicago Cubs, at St. Louis.

Following means of a pitch struck Victor Caratini, Helsley substituted Miller. Nico Hoerner hit an RBI single, Garcia attached to get a shot until Genesis Cabrera obtained the final out of this inning, and Ben Zobrist singled in Tony Kemp.