But there was a highlight for the sellout paid crowd of 46,518. Paul Goldschmidt tied the Cardinals’ club record held by Mark McGwire (1997-98) and Matt Carpenter (2018) by homering in his sixth successive game, hitting a Cole slider 421 feet out to left center in the fourth. It is the longest home run streak in the majors this season.
In Ponce de Leon’s last three starts, he hasn’t made it to the end of the fourth in any of them and has pitched fewer innings on each occasion. Over his past nine innings in those three games, he has walked 10 and allowed 10 runs.