Martinez shakes off nosebleed, Cardinals beat Padres

Jedd Gyorko is taking that to extremes.

“I don’t think he was bad by any stretch, but I think there’s more in him”, manager Andy Green said. The Cardinals acquired Gyorko from the Padres for outfielder Jon Jay, in an off season trade this past winter. He started at third base both games of the doubleheader. Seung Hwan Oh got the save, his second of the day and fourth this year.

San Diego (41-54) did pull within 3-2 with solo homers by Matt Kemp and Ryan Schimpf, extending its franchise record of games with a homer to 18 to tie the National League’s longest streak since the 2010 Cincinnati Reds.

Padres pitchers have surrendered homers to Gyorko five straight games.

“I just thought, you know, maybe I should start pitching excellently and see what happens”, Leake may or may not have said, “So far, the results have been pretty positive”.

Following a single in the first, Gyorko ambushed a first-pitch fastball with two outs in the third, lining it 395 feet into the Padres bullpen for a 1-0 lead.

“That was cool”, Gyorko said. “Hopefully, I can stay locked in”. Matt Holliday, Gyorko and Yadier Molina homered off Colin Rea (5-4).

The Cardinals, who beat the Padres 10-2 Monday and 4-2 in the earlier Wednesday game, will look for the four-game series sweep Thursday at 6:15 p.m. Matheny said with a smile “there’s a good chance” Gyorko will be in there. “To be able to get these two W’s is huge”.

The game between the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals scheduled for Tuesday night was postponed because of anticipated storms.

The 26-year-old gave up four runs and eight hits with three walks in 4 2/3 innings, which caused his road ERA to rise to 5.52.

The game was a makeup of Tuesday night’s rainout.

Martinez said he also dealt with the issue last season and awoke with a nosebleed on Wednesday.

Trainers finally stopped it, stuffing cotton up Martinez’s left nostril, and he cruised from there.

San Diego opened with Jankowski’s double and Schimpf’s two-run homer but had just two more hits off Martinez. After play resumed, he retired 11 of his next 12 batters. He has 11 homers and 27 RBIs on the year with 40 starts spread across the infield. He then drove an 0-2 pitch from Dan Jennings (3-2) over the wall in right for his 13th homer.

In his last two starts he has stuck out twenty-one.

The long day was ultimately very successful for the Cardinals (50-44), which gained a game and a half on Miami for the NL’s second wild-card spot, thanks to the Marlins’ 4-1 loss in Philadelphia.

Padres: C Christian Bethancourt took a foul ball off his right knee guard in the seventh inning of the opener but finished without issues. Derek Norris doubled with one out and Adam Rosales walked with two down. He had not allowed more than one homer in any of his other 23 career outings during the last two seasons.