Before the Nationals and Cardinals could play the second of two on Saturday night in Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, the clubs had to finish six (-plus in the end) innings from their series opener, after it was postponed by rain in the third inning on Friday night.
The Cards led 1-0 in the third when play resumed, but the visiting Nats tied it up in the top of the fourth, with Joey Meneses driving in CJ Abrams with an RBI single after Abrams led things off with a hit, 1-1.
Both teams scored three runs in their respective halves of the fifth, then they each added a run in the eighth, and it went into extras tied at 5-5, before the Nationals pushed two more across with Lane Thomas connecting for an opposite field RBI single to right and run No.