SAN FRANCISCO — A house of cards only needs a slight breeze to come apart.
For a team in a funk where even the smallest thing that can go wrong has gone wrong and often wrong, sometimes it doesn’t take much to go wrong at all to lose.
A day after salvaging a series in Seattle, the Cardinals and starter Jordan Montgomery dodged San Francisco baserunners Monday at Oracle Park like so many raindrops and took a scoreless game into the seventh inning. Montgomery likely had one batter as he neared his career high for pitches (108) and a right-handed batter was due up second in the inning.