DeJong stroked a two-run homer to left to break a 1-1 tie and give the Cardinals a 3-1 win in the finale of a series abbreviated to two games by the previous night’s rain.
“Goldy gave me a tip before I went up there,” DeJong said. “He said (Lorenzen) has been using his changeup more to righties and I saw against Munoz he threw two or three. So it wasn’t in the back of my mind that I was looking for a changeup, it was more protecting myself against the low-and-in changeup that he’d try to get me to chase.