A nasty backdoor curve got Dexter Fowler looking, and after he threw a wicked changeup by Paul Goldschmidt for strike two, Washington Nationals’ right-hander Stephen Strasburg painted the outside corner with a fastball that got the St. Louis Cardinals’ hard-hitting first baseman swinging for the first out of the opening frame of today’s game, but a couple of balls hit toward Andrew Stevenson in right weren’t caught and they led to the first run of the game for the Cards crossing the plate.
Stevenson got turned around a fly to the track off Drew Robinson’s bat in the first AB of the game, then tracked a fly to the line in right off Tyler O’Neill and had the two-out drive fall in for an RBI double, 1-0.