Leather being flashed all over the field? A hit-and-run play and suicide squeeze both successful in the same inning? A hitter batting .125 with men in scoring position driving in two runs with a triple? The Cardinals’ first save by a Korean?
The Redbirds had all this and more Saturday afternoon at Busch Stadium.
Adam Wainwright, battling erratic location and “very mediocre” stuff, allowed seven hits in seven innings. But all were singles, and three were erased in double plays — one started by Wainwright himself.
For the second game in a row, the Cardinals had only one outfield putout — meaning all the rest were in the infield or off the glove of catcher Yadier Molina, who handled Wainwright’s five strikeouts and two by Seung Hwan Oh.