CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Cardinals rookie JJ Wetherholt homered twice, second baseman Juan Brito allowed Masyn Winn\u2019s potential game-ending grounder to bounce into right field and St. Louis stopped a three-game losing streak when it rallied to beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-5 in 10 innings on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Riley O\u2019Brien (2-0) pitched a perfect 10th, stranding automatic runner Chase DeLauter at third when Brito grounded out
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Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez hit a first-inning homer off Michael McGreevy
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Cleveland opened a 5-2 lead in the eighth on George Valera’s tiebreaking double and Mart\u00ednez’s two-run double<\/p>\n
Wetherholt had his first multi-homer game, going deep for the first time since homering in his debut on opening day. His solo homer off Joey Cantillo tied the score 2-2 in the third and his two-run drive against Erik Sabrowski cut the Cardinals’ deficit to 5-4 in the eighth.<\/p>\n
With two outs in the ninth, Winn reached when his two-hopper hit off Brito’s left wrist for just the sixth error by Cleveland this season. Winn advanced on Cade Smith\u2019s wild pitch and scored on Yohel Pozo\u2019s opposite-field double that bounced to the right-center field wall.<\/p>\n
Riley O\u2019Brien (2-0) pitched a perfect 10th, stranding automatic runner Chase DeLauter at third when Brito grounded out.<\/p>\n
Automatic runner Thomas Saggese advanced to third in the bottom half on a wild pitch by Tim Herrin (0-1) and scored with a headfirst slide, just beating the throw from right fielder Angel Mart\u00ednez on Nathan Church\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Iv\u00e1n Herrera hit his first home run this season for St. Louis, which improved to 4-0 in extra innings with its seventh comeback win.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez hit a first-inning homer off Michael McGreevy and with 288 moved past Bernie Williams and Bobby Bonilla into sole possession of 11th place among switch-hitters.<\/p>\n
Cleveland opened a 5-2 lead in the eighth on George Valera’s tiebreaking double and Mart\u00ednez’s two-run double.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Cleveland RHP Slade Cecconi (0-2, 5.74 ERA) goes against St. Louis RHP Dustin May (1-2, 9.45) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Cardinals rookie JJ Wetherholt homered twice, second baseman Juan Brito allowed Masyn Winn\u2019s potential game-ending grounder to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,6115,591,44,12293,129815,58194,85,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-608255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ohio","17":"tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","18":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}