Cardinals rigthander Jack Flaherty pitched nobly Friday night as the Cardinals sought to turn back the San Diego Padres in the third and decisive game of the National League wild-card series at Petco Park..
He allowed just one run and struck out eight through six innings, but that journey took him to 109 pitches and he was unlikely to come out for the seventh. Flaherty also left trailing 1-0.
With their rotation in a shambles because of injuries to their top two starters, the Padres employed six pitchers through six runless innings.
Flaherty, scoreless through four, surrendered the first run of the game in the fifth on a one-out double by Fernando Tatis past diving third baseman Tommy Edman and Eric Hosmer's two-out double to left center out of the reach of Dylan Carlson.