And there was a little magic at work, too, in the nightcap when the Cardinals somehow won the game 1-0 in 11 innings despite striking out 17 times in the regulation nine innings with rookie Hunter Greene accounting for 11 of them as he threw a record (breaking his own) 46 pitches at 100 miles an hour or better.
“We obviously didn’t muster anything against him,” said Nolan Arenado, one of two Cardinals not to strike out against Greene (Corey Dickerson was the other).
“As good as we’ve seen this year,” said Paul Goldschmidt, who whiffed four times, three against Greene.