It was an 11-pitch fifth for him, getting groundouts from Butler, Allen, and Ruiz. Hudson continued to pound the bottom of the zone and get ground balls in the fifth. Regardless, the Cardinals led this game 5-0 after four innings. If it’s caught, he’d be prepared to tag up. Not that it had much bearing on the outcome of this game, but it was a head scratcher why Knizner wasn’t waiting on third base to tag up with one out and the ball quickly tailing towards the foul line - if it dropped fair, he likely would’ve scored even if he was waiting on third base. Hudson struck out Gelof and Rooker, each with sliders in the dirt, to end the inning and strand both runners. With Gelof at bat, Ruiz stole second base - his league-leading 47th - to get into scoring position as well. Allen tagged and went to third base, with Ruiz staying at first. That put two runners on with no outs for the new dad Tony Kemp, who flew out to deep right field. Hudson walked the A’s number eight hitter in Nick Allen and then hit the number nine hitter, Ruiz, with a 1-0 sinker that was up near his elbow. Goldschmidt struck out on a foul tip to end the second inning. Butler’s throw beat Noot to second, but Nick Allen was unable to hold onto the ball when he turned to drop the tag, allowing him to reach with his 18th double of the season. Watkins struck out Edman for out number two, but Nootbaar put Watkins on his heels once again with a hustle double into the right-center field gap. Taylor Motter led off in the bottom of the second and poked a foul ball just a few feet to the right of the foul pole in right field, missing a homer by a few feet. He struck out Diaz, and then got weak groundouts from Soderstrom and Butler. It was a 1-2-3 inning for Hudson on seven pitches. With two outs, Andrew Knizner worked an eight-pitch at bat and hit a 385-foot fly ball to center field, but Butler made the catch on the warning track to end the first inning. Paul Goldschmidt got ahead 2-0, fouled off a few pitches, and then hammered a 2-2 cutter into right-center field that rolled all the way to the warning track, allowing Nootbaar to score and put the Cardinals up 1-0 just a few minutes into the game. Nootbaar, leading off in Oli Marmol’s lineup against righties, led off the game with a base hit to left field. Louis quickly pushed that closer to 6.00. He entered the game with a career ERA of 5.85, and St. All-Star DH Brent Rooker singled to right field with two outs, but Seth Brown swung at a first-pitch fastball from Hudson and grounded out to Goldschmidt for the third out.ģ0-year old right-hander Spenser Watkins made his first big league start since September of 2022 tonight, and the Cardinals were not kind to him in his return.
Louis beat up a little bit on a team they absolutely should beat up.ĭakota Hudson got the first two outs on five pitches - a four-pitch flyout from Kemp and a first-pitch groundout by Gelof.
Oakland’s owner and management are actively trying to lose games, so the Cardinals don’t get too much credit for these wins, but it is nice to see St. Matthew Liberatore will have a chance to back up his gem against the Rays (the fourth-best offense in baseball) against a team on the opposite end of the spectrum (the worst offense in baseball). I know it’s the A’s, but the Cardinals bats have shown up in back-to-back games, potentially setting them up for a sweep tomorrow night. Here are the starting lineups for the A’s and Cardinals in game two of this fun little interleague series: But as we’ve seen, it sometimes takes more than a few runs to win on Dakota Hudson bumpday.
The Cardinals ~walked~ to a 7-5 win Monday night against the A’s, and jumped out to an early lead once again Tuesday night thanks to Lars Nootbaar, Paul Goldschmidt, and Nolan Arenado at the top of the order.
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