ST LOUIS – Scott Kingery, with the weight of a looming loss and a rough month weighing on him, steadied himself in the batter’s box with two outs in the eighth inning of Saturday afternoon’s 7-6 win over the Cardinals.
It had been nearly three weeks since Kingery’s last extra-base hit. He was batting just .177 in his previous 64 trips to the plate and was hitless Saturday in his first three at-bats. It was Kingery’s throwing error an inning earlier that led to St. Louis taking a one-run lead as he made a key defensive lapse for the second-straight day.