Cardinals cool off D-backs, ending four-game win streak
Apr 7, 2018, 2:50 PM | Updated: 5:24 pm
Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Zack Greinke, left, walks back to the mound as St. Louis Cardinals' Jose Martinez rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 7, 2018, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The temperature at first pitch for the Diamondbacks game against St. Louis at Busch Stadium tied for the coldest game in D-backs history.
Unfortunately, the cold spell in St. Louis put a little damper on the D-backs hot streak to start the season as the D-backs lost 5-3 to the Cardinals.
The D-backs were only able to squeeze out one run in the first inning despite getting four of the first five batters of the inning on base. They stranded the bases loaded when Jarrod Dyson grounded out to first to end the inning.
Zack Greinke responded well getting the first two batters of the game out. Then a Matt Carpenter single led to a Jose Martinez RBI single to center, which Carpenter scored on to tie the game.
Greinke then ran into some trouble in the third inning and it was again Jose Martinez with a three-run homer to open a 5-2 lead for the Cardinals in the third.
The D-backs’ never-say-die attitude was on display in the eighth inning. With the 3-4-5 hitters up in Paul Goldschmidt, A.J. Pollock and Daniel Descalso, the D-backs cut the lead to 5-3 after walks by Goldschmidt and Pollock and an RBI groundout by Chris Owings.
For Owings, it was his second RBI of the game, giving him six on the season.
Unfortunately, that was all that the D-backs could muster in the outing.
In the bottom of the ninth after a Ketel Marte double, Bud Norris struck out Goldschmidt to end the game and kill the D-backs four-game win streak.
Up next
The D-backs face the Cardinals again on Sunday before heading off to San Francisco for a divisional series against the Giants. Taijuan Walker (0-0) will face Luke Weaver (1-0) as the D-backs try to start a new win streak. First pitch will be at 11:15 a.m. on 98.7 FM Arizona’s Sports Station.
