Cristopher Sánchez didn’t have strikeout stuff, but he had groundball-inducing stuff in the Phillies’ 4-1 win over the Cardinals in St. Louis.
Sánchez got the Cardinals to ground into four double plays on Saturday. Three were inning-enders. Two got the left-hander out of one-out jams.
St. Louis designated hitter Luken Baker grounded into a double play with the bases loaded to end the bottom of the third inning. Cardinals nine-hole hitter Thomas Saggese put a ball on the ground with one out and runners on first and second in the bottom of the fifth; it resulted in a 4-6-3 double play.