CINCINNATI • After starting twice at right field and twiee at third base on the Cardinals’ six-game trip, Tommy Edman turned up at second base Sunday, replacing the Cardinals’ hottest hitter lately, Kolten Wong. Nary a beat was skipped.
Edman singled in his first two at-bats and then homered in his third, keying a two-run fifth inning that propelled the Cardinals to a 5-1 lead over the Cincinnati Reds.
The homer by Edman off lefthander Alex Wood was Edman’s fifth since he was brought up a couple of months ago from Memphis. Later in the inning, Paul Goldschmidt, who had hit a two-run homer in the third, doubled and scored on Marcell Ozuna’s double that went over the head of center fielder Nick Senzel.