JUPITER, Fla. • The Cardinals finally found that hit they were searching for, but they still trail Houston, 2-1, at the top of the seventh inning.
Aledmys Diaz doubled on a ground ball to left, scoring Eric Fryer, who led off and reached on a botched ground ball by Astros' second baseman Tony Kemp.
Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal handled the top of the sixth. Luis Valbuena promptly smashed the first pitch he saw for a ground-rule double that bounced over the fence in left-center.
Rosenthal recovered to strike out the next two batters. He got a groundout from the third.