Chicago Cubs go short shorts for road trip to Miami

“That’s just the result of good at-bats”, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said.

Cardinals vs Cubs Wednesday in Chicago – St. Louis Cardinals righty Michael Wacha will have a tough time ending his long winless drought on Wednesday as he has to take on Jake Arrieta and the Chicago Cubs.

An Aledmys Diaz two-run homer effectively put the game away, giving the Cardinals their aforementioned 7-0 lead.

Despite a pretty big difference in fielding consistently good teams, the Cardinals actually haven’t swept the Cubs in Wrigley Field since May 17-19, 1988.

The recap will also live on the front page as a separate post, and at the time I write the recap I will rename the stream “Cubs vs. (Team) (Day of Week) Game Threads” so you can go back and find every thread related to that particular game. He said after the game he was fine.

The Cubs had three hits and committed several mental and defensive miscues.

The Cubs and Cardinals will play 10 more times this season, but not again until the middle of August, when these two teams could look very different.

“We battled that series and we kept battling here”, Wacha said. But luckily my curve ball was there and we made it work.

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Toronto ended Arizona’s five-game winning streak with a 5-2 victory.

A single and two walks loaded the bases in the fifth with one out when Stephen Picotty hit a grounder to third. But second baseman Ben Zobrist’s relay throw to first was a one-hopper, Rizzo couldn’t dig it out for the double play, and two runs scored.

“That was a big moment there”, Rizzo said. Last two starts: 13 innings, six hits, two earned runs, 14 strikeouts. Rizzo left after the sixth with tightness in his lower back.

“I had decent stuff but my command was off”, Wainwright said.

St. Louis Cardinals’ Matt Carpenter watches his two-run double during the sixth inning of a base … Shoemaker did not allow a hit until there were two outs in the fourth inning and carried a shutout into the sixth before Jose Altuve smacked a solo home run.

The Miami Marlins shut out the Atlanta Braves 3-0, the Houston Astros overcame the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 and the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the Washington Nationals 4-3. Luke Gregerson (2-1) struck out one in a scoreless eighth for the victory.

Jake Arrieta was able to pick up his second consecutive win last week when he defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates at home. Dating back to June 8, the Cards have eight straight road wins. The only bad news for banged-up NY was another injury, this one to Yoenis Cespedes. Holliday hits his thirteenth home run to center field.

Matt Holliday went 1-for-4 with 1 run, 1 HR and 2 RBI.

Wainwright (6-4) was hit for three early runs and then shut down Chicago for his first win in more than three weeks. C Willson Contreras led off with a single and moved to third base on another single by SS Addison Russell.

RANGERS 6, REDS 4 Cole Hamels struck out eight in six solid innings, Prince Fielder had a two-run single and host Texas beat Cincinnati for a split in the two-game series.

BALTIMORE – Mark Trumbo and Ryan Flaherty both homered, and starter Ubaldo Jimenez threw six strong innings as Baltimore defeated San Diego. He starts the bottom of the third inning going through the lineup for a second time.