JUPITER, Fla. — Dylan Carlson didn’t start Wednesday’s game and Nolan Gorman wasn’t supposed to. But the hopes of the Cardinals’ future, perhaps sooner than we think, combined to account for three runs in the sixth and seventh innings to put their club ahead.
But the Cardinals were caught and passed by the Miami Marlins 8-7 in an exhibition contest.
Carlson, a 21-year-old first-round pick by the Cardinals in 2016, tripled past former Cardinal Magneuris Sierra with one out in the sixth and scored the go-ahead run on 19-year-old Gorman’s second of three hits for the game, a double off the wall against lefthander Adam Conley.