After a 46-minute rain delay, Dexter Fowler answered back with a three-run homer in the bottom half of the inning to put the Cardinals back ahead by two. But San Francisco scratched across one in the eighth on a Denard Span RBI single, and Nunez put them back in front with a two-run double off Cardinals closer Seung Hwan Oh in the ninth.
"First thing, letting the leadoff hitter go on the base and second of all was a missed pitch against Nunez," Oh, speaking through a translator, said in citing his two mistakes.