Lester, coming off a 120-pitch effort last Sunday, had his day complicated by his own inability to hold runners on. The Cardinals ran freely against him and turned two steals into two runs to erase an early deficit. A solo home run by Jedd Gyorko and 5-for-9 day from the bottom third of the order helped the Cardinals even the series with their seventh win in eight games.
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
A Happ-ening day: Kept from his first Major League hit by an official scorer's decision in the fifth, Happ tallied one that no one could dispute two innings later when he crushed a first-pitch changeup over the right-field wall to end Martinez's day and pull Chicago to within two.