Dakota Hudson got rattled around a bit in the third inning, but outside of that danced around trouble and kept the Cardinals in it long enough to come back and win the second game of this three-game set. Dylan Carlson hit a double for the fourth straight game, Junior Fernandez looks like a different pitcher, and Nolan Arenado dug a ball basically out of the dirt for a base knock at one point.
They had me concerned for a little bit there, but that big fifth inning turned out to be a knockout blow. Here’s how tonight’s 5-3 win happened, inning by inning:
1st Inning
Dakota Hudson worked a three-up, three-down top of the first, mostly by way of lazy fly balls.