by St. Louis (AP)-Brendan Donovan Homde in a third inning of three run, Lars Nootbaar hit a solo gay in the sixth, and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Washington Nationals on Tuesday evening in a match that started after a 2 hour, 19-minute rain removal.
Sonny Gray (9-3) allowed two points on six hits and a walk and threw six in five innings.
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Steven Matz, Phil Maton and Jojo Romero each threw a scoreless inning of relief, and Ryan Helsley threw a scoreless ninth for his 18th salvation in 23 chances.
Jake Irvin (7-4) gave four runs to six hits and gave a season with high four free run in six innings when Washington lost its fourth consecutive game in the debut of Miguel Cairo as an interim manager.
Nootably, his 12th Homer of the season hit a ball in the seventh inning that barely sailed over the vast glove of the right field player Lile to put St. Louis on 4-2.
Alec Burleson hit a double along the right field line to score Masyn Win and to give the Cardinals a 3-2 third inning lead.
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James Wood hit an RBI single to the right field and Luis García Jr. Reed in a run on the choice of a field player to help Washington get 2-0 ahead in the third.
Important moment
Donovan hit his eighth home run of the season on the first throw he saw to bind the game on 2-all after Victor Scott II hit a basis double to the right field to distract the inning.
Key Stat
Lile hit a single to the right to extend his stroke to 14 games. He is three games from binding Ryan Zimmerman’s Rookie-Franchise-Beste 17-game Streak from 24 June to 18 July 2006.
Next
National All-Star LHP Mackenzie Gore (3-8, 3.11 ERA) will be confronted with Cardinals RHP Andre Pallante (5-4, 4.10) on Wednesday evening.
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