The Cubs slide continued on Saturday night with a blown lead at Busch Stadium against the rival Cardinals. Chicago missed numerous opportunities to expand on their advantage and surrendered four runs in the bottom of the 8th inning to take a painful loss despite a rally in the 9th that got them within one.
St. Louis drew first blood with two runs off of Jameson Taillon in the bottom of the 3rd inning on a groundout by Paul Goldschmidt and an RBI single by Nolan Arenado. Nico Hoerner came through in the 4th with a two-run double against Miles Mikolas to tie the score and Michael Busch followed with a single to give the Cubs a 3-2 edge.