Jesse Winker hit a home run to break up Wainwright’s shutout, and Derek Dietrich followed an inning later with a solo homer that snapped a tie and sent Cincinnati toward a 5-2 victory at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey. A problematic eighth inning that featured two near-miss diving catches in the outfield for the Cardinals allowed the Reds to scored three runs and pull away in what had been a tight game. The Cardinals got the tying run to the plate twice in the ninth inning with the middle-order Pauls.
The big hops and bigger blasts that the Cardinals expected at the ballpark happened – just not in bunches.