Early lead for St. Louis? Check.
Come-from-behind rally to take a 3-2 lead? Check.
Putting the Cardinals away with a crooked number in the late innings? Check.
Almost all of those things happened in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader; all of them did at some point over the weekend. The Cubs nearly matched all of them Sunday and won by the same score, 7-2, taking the series from the Cardinals three games to two.
Matt Carpenter, who was on a home run streak (note the past tense!