KANSAS CITY • The Cardinals took advantage of starter Yordano Ventura's wildness in the first inning to score two runs but may have run themselves out of a bigger inning.
Kolten Wong and Matt Carpenter both walked before Jhonny Peralta singled home Wong, sending Carpenter to third. Matt Adams doubled over the head of center fielder Lorenzo Cain as Carpenter scored. Third-base coach Jose Oquendo properly held the slow-running Peralta at third base with no one out.
But Peralta strayed too far from the bag as Royals catcher Salvador Perez made a nifty pickup on what would have a wild pitch and Perez snapped a throw to third.