18 Cardinals hits, Quintana holding tough, a couple of visiting home runs... yeah, there wasn’t much to like about Wednesday evening’s game as the Cardinals took a quick lead and never relinquished it. They took a meekly-resisted victory over the Rockies 9-5 at Coors.
Rough start
Kyle Freeland looked a bit wild to open the game as he walked Dylan Carlson before getting a fielder’s choice ground out from Tommy Edman. What followed was a cavalcade of Cardinals hits - five in a row to be exact, which quickly put the Rockies down 4-0. The lead would become 5-0 after a Lars Nootbaar sacrifice fly before the near half-four inning mercifully ended.