Anthony Rizzo, who is an up-and-coming
star for this Chicago Cubs squad, as certainly been what everyone around the
Saint Louis as the brand new official Cardinals’ killer—and today, he proved
matters even more when he sent a sellout crowd at Wrigley Field satisfied,
happy, and with a series’ victory over the defending-champion Saint Louis
Cardinals.
In a game that consisted of seventeen
total hits (ten from the Cubs; seven from the Cardinals), Rizzo sent a blast
off his bat to deep left field in a tie game in the bottom of the tenth inning,
scoring himself—along with Starlin Castro, to give the Cubbies’ a 4-to-2 win in
the rubber match of this three game series between the two arch-rival enemies.
Adam Wainwright continued to impress
with his performance on the mound—despite receiving a no-decision in the game.
Wainwright gave up two runs on six hits in six solid innings of work—while striking
out five batters and improving his earned-run average to 4.24 on the season.
Paul Maholm answered the feat though,
as he pitched six and two-third innings in the contest—but also received a no
decision. In his time out on the mound, Maholm gave up just one run on four
hits and also struck out five batters himself.
In a game that was pretty quiet up
until the bottom of the tenth inning, the Cubs scored runs in both of the first
two innings to build a two-run lead—getting RBI’s from Starlin Castro in the
bottom of the first—and a fielder’s choice RBI from Mahom that drove in Darwin
Barney in the bottom half of the second.
Saint Louis managed to score runs in
back-to-back innings, as they came in the seventh and eighth innings. Tyler
Greene brought in David Freese on a sacrifice fly in the seventh; while Carlos
Beltran hit his twenty-third home-run to deep left in the top of the eighth—which
at the time, tied the game up at two a piece.
The Cardinals, following the
heartbreaking walkoff loss, fell to 54-46 on the season; and are now a total of
seven and a half games behind the Reds for the Central division lead. As for
the Cubbies, the win improved them to 42-58 overall—and now has them on a
current two game winning streak.
The defending champions will be taking
the day off on Monday as they will be traveling to Arizona where they will
begin a three game series against the Diamondbacks starting on Tuesday night at
7:40 pm Central Time. Today’s game was the last game before the MLB trading
deadline approaches us—which will end at 2 pm Central Time on Tuesday
afternoon.
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