St. Louis Cardinals at Los Angeles Dodgers

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St. Louis Cardinals

69-70, 35-32 Away

Final
13 - 8

Los Angeles Dodgers

82-56, 40-27 Home

Thomas Saggese leads 5-homer outburst in Cardinals' 13-8 win over Dodgers

Ramón Urías and Joshua Báez also went deep for the Cardinals, who had lost seven of nine while getting outscored 63-38 during that span. But the bats broke loose in this one as St. Louis scored its most runs in a game at Dodger Stadium.

Los Angeles starter Eric Lauer (8-7) was tagged for seven early runs, five in the third inning.

Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy went a combined 1 for 7 with three strikeouts for the Dodgers. Mookie Betts had four RBI.

Los Angeles dropped to 28-2 when scoring at least eight runs this season.

Cardinals starter Michael McGreevy (6-9) allowed four runs and five hits with four strikeouts in five innings.

The Cardinals loaded the bases twice in the third while extending their lead to 7-0. Iván Herrera had an RBI single, Leo Bernal delivered a two-run single in his major league debut and Saggese added a sacrifice fly. Nathan Church reached on an infield single to second, scoring Bernal.

The Cardinals led 2-0 on consecutive homers by Urías and Saggese with two outs in the second.

Walker's two-run drive off reliever Seth Halvorsen made it 9-3 in the fourth. Walker had just five homers in his previous 41 games since the All-Star break.

Saggese homered again with two outs in the fifth. Báez added a solo homer in the seventh for an 11-4 lead.

Dodges utilityman Kiké Hernández struck out as a pinch hitter in the seventh and then gave up a leadoff hit in pitching the ninth, the 148th position player to pitch in the majors this season.

Lauer gave up seven runs and eight hits in three innings.

Up next The Cardinals will go with a bullpen game Wednesday against Dodgers RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (12-8, 2.56 ERA).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	T. Hernández struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Edman to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Edman singled to right, Smith scored.
	9th Inning	Smith to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Tucker hit sacrifice fly to left, Betts scored.
	9th Inning	Smith grounded into fielder's choice to second, E. Hernández scored, Feduccia out at second, Betts to third.

Statistics

STL		LAD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
9	Ground Balls	10
10	Strikeouts	7
12	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
13	Hits	9
1	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
13	Runs	8
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
2	Sacrifice Flies	1
38	At Bats	36
5	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	23
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	3
21	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	0
159	Pitches	174
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	3
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
29	Total Bases	12
44	Plate Appearances	44
810.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
6	Extra Base Hits	3
11.0	Runs Created	5.3
.342	Batting Average	.250
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.763	Slugging Percentage	.333
.526	Secondary Average	.250
.386	On Base Percentage	.364
1.150	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.697
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
11.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.1
81.0	Batter Rating	47.0
7.6	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.61	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.95
.421	Isolated Power	.083
0.30	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.86
.068	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.136
.184	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
25.0	Runs Produced	16.0
0.9	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.8	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
119.0	MLB Rating	89.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0