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Cardinals 12, Tigers 6: Nightmarish sixth inning leads to snapped winning streak

The Tigers dropped the series finale in St. Louis to the Cardinals 12-6. After pulling ahead in the top of the sixth via Jake Rogers’ grand slam, the Cardinals were able to get all those runs back and more in the bottom half of the inning en route to scoring nine unanswered runs. The defense of the Tigers was uncharacteristically off, committing four errors which aided the Cardinals in their massive sixth inning. After a three strikeout game on Saturday night, Paul Goldschmidt hit three home runs on Sunday. The Tigers still managed to take two out of three at St.