Dbacks beat Cards
ST. LOUIS – Madison Bumgarner pitched five strong innings, Daulton Varsho had two hits and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 on Friday night.
Bumgarner (1-1) outdueled Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright in a game featuring two starters who have combined for 314 career wins.
Bumgarner threw a season-high 89 pitches in five innings, giving up one run on three hits. Luis Frias, Noé Ramirez, Joe Mantiply and Ian Kennedy combined for four innings of relief, allowing just one run.
The Diamondbacks won for the third time in their last four games, while St. Louis has lost four of six.
Wainwright (2-3) struggled with his control, issuing a season-high five walks. He induced double
plays to get out of jams in the first and second innings, but the free passes cost him in the third and sixth innings.
Varsho’s double scored Geraldo Perdomo, who led off the third inning with a walk, and Pavin Smith followed with a groundout that scored José Herrera to give the Diamondbacks a 2-1 lead.
Wainwright walked Smith to start the sixth, leading to a Cooper Hummel RBI single to extend Arizona’s lead to 3-1. The Diamondbacks tacked on
two more in the seventh on a Jordan Luplow pinch-hit RBI single and a David Peralta sacrifice fly.
Paul Goldschmidt’s solo home run in the first
snapped an eight-game homerless drought for the Cardinals. The 407-foot blast to left-centerfield came in the 12th pitch of the at bat.
RULE CHECK
The Cardinals’ second run came on a balk by Frias in the seventh. Originally, the umpires awarded