ST. LOUIS \u2014 Andre Pallante matched his season high with eight strikeouts in seven strong innings, and the St. Louis Cardinals scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth in a 7-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Pallante (11-6) allowed two hits and a walk, and Gordon Graceffo pitched two innings in relief for St. Louis, which snapped a two-game skid. The Cardinals had lost six of their previous seven games.<\/p>\n
Six straight Cardinals reached base with one out in the sixth inning before Nathan Church laid down a safety squeeze bunt that scored Bryan Torres and gave the Cardinals a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Iv\u00e1n Herrera hit a two-run double to left field to snap an 0-for-12 skid, Torres lined an RBI single to left field, and Blaze Jordan dribbled a two-run single to right field to end Hunter Greene\u2019s (2-2) night.<\/p>\n
Greene allowed seven runs, six earned, on eight hits and two walks over 5 1\/3 innings in his fourth start of the season since being activated from the injured list on July 4.<\/p>\n
JJ Wetherholt reached base on Elly De La Cruz\u2019s fielding error to lead off the bottom of the first and scored on a single by Burleson to give St. Louis a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati had won three games in a row and five of seven since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Reds LHP Andrew Abbott (5-6, 3.89 ERA) looks to earn his first win since June 20 against Cardinals RHP Kyle Leahy (7-4, 3.59) in Sunday\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS \u2014 Andre Pallante matched his season high with eight strikeouts in seven strong innings, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,10027,591,44,12293,91812,58194,85,39],"class_list":["post-825584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cincinnati","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cincinnati-reds","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825584","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=825584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}