ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—The Cardinals have scored 10 or more runs in three of Miles Mikolas’ 12 starts this season. Unfortunately, they also have had five in which they have scored none while he was in the game and one in which they scored once.
That last game came on Thursday afternoon, in the blink of an eye as it was completed in 1 hour 54 minutes, the fastest game of the season and the briskest for the Cardinals in 12 seasons.
The Cardinals scored an unearned run off Tampa Bay ace Shane McClanahan in the seventh but, before that, Ji-Man Choi had slugged a two-run homer off Mikolas in the fourth.