{"id":567212,"date":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567212\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","slug":"detroit-tigers-defeated-by-st-louis-cardinals-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567212\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers defeated by St. Louis Cardinals 5-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/sports\/tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> were beaten 5-3 by the St. Louis Cardinals at Comerica Park on Sunday night. Iv\u00e1n Herrera&#8217;s two-run single capped a four-run fifth inning for the Cards in the finale of a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Iv\u00e1n Herrera&#8217;s two-run single capped a four-run fifth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals salvaged the finale of a three-game series with a 5-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Gorman, Victor Scott II and Pedro Pag\u00e9s each scored a run and knocked in another for the Cardinals. <\/p>\n<p>St. Louis starter Kyle Leahy (1-1) gave up two runs and five hits in five innings. Riley O&#8217;Brien pitched the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Carpenter led the Detroit offense with his second homer in two days. Tigers starter Keider Montero (0-1) gave up three runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 and three hits in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Montero was recalled from Triple-A Toledo on Saturday after Justin Verlander was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/tigers-justin-verlander-il-hip-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">placed on the 15-day injured list<\/a> due to left hip inflammation. Verlander had been scheduled Sunday to make his first start at Detroit&#8217;s ballpark in a Tigers uniform since the 2017 season. <\/p>\n<p>Colt Keith led off the Detroit third with a single. Leahy retired the next two batters before Carpenter launched a 425-foot drive to straightaway center field to give the Tigers a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals scored their first two runs in the fifth on Pages&#8217; RBI single and Scott&#8217;s squeeze bunt. Herrera smacked his two-out, two-run single off Enmanuel De Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Javier B\u00e1ez&#8217;s sacrifice fly in the sixth cut the Cardinals&#8217; lead to 4-3. Gorman&#8217;s sacrifice fly in the eighth made it 5-3.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals: RHP Andre Pallante (1-0, 0.00 ERA) is scheduled to start the opener of a three-game series Monday night at Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers: RHP Casey Mize (0-1, 1.50) pitches the opener of a four-game series Monday night at Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers were beaten 5-3 by the St. Louis Cardinals at Comerica Park on Sunday night. Iv\u00e1n&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[372,29502,13090,363,99,1231],"class_list":{"0":"post-567212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-justin-verlander","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}