Cards drop series in Chicago as the trade deadline looms

Jul 24 2017 by Viva El Birdos

 

Wacha runs out of gas, Cards run themselves out the game, Cubs run the division.

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Events

1st Inning

Matt Carpenter led the game of with a weak, routine ground ball to 2B that defensive wizard Javier Baez booted, allowing the Cardinal lead-off man to reach. Pham and Fowler followed by tagging a pair of line drives to deep RF, but Jason Heyward made a couple of wonderful plays to turn them into outs, as he does. Jedd Gyorko then laced a double into the gap in LCF, but Carpenter...

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