Spoiler alert: There weren\u2019t going to be many highlights to share from tonight\u2019s St. Louis Cardinals game in Pittsburgh as the Pirates bullpen nearly no-hit the birds. However, the St. Louis Cardinals broke the heart of the Bucks thanks in part to a loud homecoming from JJ Wetherholt and a rally for the ages.<\/p>\n
The Pittsburgh Pirates tossed a potpourri of pitchers on the mound for Monday night\u2019s game versus the St. Louis Cardinals and nearly made history. Mason Montgomery<\/a> tossed 1 inning. He was followed by Justin Lawrence<\/a> who also served his team with a perfect inning. Wilber Dotel<\/a> was responsible for the heart of the game and he was also perfect through his 4 innings. It wasn\u2019t until Evan Sisk<\/a> in the top of the 7th inning that a St. Louis Cardinal reached base and that was Alec Burleson<\/a> barely beating out an infield hit tapped to third baseman Nick Gonzales<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Pittsburgh Pirates offense wasn\u2019t exactly on fire either as Dustin May<\/a> held them to 2 runs on just 7 hits through a solid 6 innings. Dustin May\u2019s start was nearly overlooked when Mangum singled in Gonzales in the bottom of the 1st inning and O\u2019Hearn scored Lowe on a single in the bottom of the 2nd inning to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead. It\u2019s too bad that the Cardinals offense didn\u2019t give him support earlier.<\/p>\n The Cardinals offense was such a dud (for the first 8 innings) Monday night that the TV play of the game was a groundout to third base in the 7th inning. Seriously. That changed in the 9th inning, though, when Pedro Pag\u00e9s<\/a> hit a one-out home run into the left field bleachers cutting the Pirates lead in half 2-1.<\/p>\n The Pag\u00e9s bomb was followed up by JJ Wetherholt<\/a> who grew up just 18 miles from PNC Park. With many friends and family in the stands to watch, JJ ripped a home run over the right-center field wall to tie the game 2-2. Welcome home, rookie, indeed.<\/p>\n The cardiac Cardinals were not done. Iv\u00e1n Herrera<\/a> walked and was pinch-run for by Victor Scott II. Alec Burleson then hit a dribbler that hugged the third base line and refused to go fowl for an infield hit. Jordan Walker then walked to load the bases. Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn<\/a> followed that with a blazing double down the left field line to give the Cardinals a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s not forget to acknowledge Ryan Fernandez<\/a> who threw 2 innings without allowing a run to keep the Cardinals within striking distance.<\/p>\n George Soriano<\/a> was brought in to close out the heart of the Pirates lineup in the bottom of the 9th representing a still-exhausted bullpen. Soriano was nearly lights out with Pittsburgh managing a 9th inning single, but future superstar Konnor Griffin<\/a> was the final out.<\/p>\n The St. Louis Cardinals will try for an encore Tuesday night when Kyle Leahy takes the mound. First pitch is scheduled for 5:40pm central time again at PNC Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoiler alert: There weren\u2019t going to be many highlights to share from tonight\u2019s St. Louis Cardinals game in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,79511],"class_list":["post-177807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-st-louis-cardinals-game-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}