Brent Suter handled the Cardinals with ease in the top of the 1st. Benefiting from Gary Cederstrom’s generous zone away to righties, he got Carpenter to ground out to 2B, Martinez to strike out on an elevated fastball, and Pham to fly out just short of the track in LCF. He threw 13 pitches.
Luke Weaver did his counterpart one better. Getting a similarly generous zone, he got Cain to ground out on a first-pitch, hot shot to Gyorko at 2B, and then struck out Yelich & Aguilar. He, too, threw 13 pitches.