Two outs later the same thing happened; this time the runner on third was Dyson and the runner on first was Alcides Escobar.
Don’t expect Rosenthal to get a shot at No. 31 on Friday.
The St. Louis Cardinals play the Kansas City Royals at Busch Stadium tonight.
Eric Hosmer had two hits and is 13 for 25 during a six-game hitting streak….
But Rosenthal made a spirited plea during a pregame conversation with his skipper and was insistent that he felt ready to take the ball, pointing out that he needed just 10 pitches to get through the ninth one night earlier.
Matt Carpenter threw home to get Infante and preserve the 4-3 lead.
The 36-year-old right-hander was a Rangers fan back then, but had no trouble adding the Cardinals to his short list of favourites.
The Cardinals-Royals game was the makeup of a rainout last month. 500 and have the best record in the A.L. They just took 2 of 3 from a surging Pittsburgh Pirates team and will now face the best team in the National League in a make-up game that may be a preview of this year’s World Series. Liriano (6-6) struck out 11 against three walks. His first few pitches probably weren’t what the last few were.
The capacity crowd of 46,003 exhaled as Rosenthal celebrated his 30th save and the Cardinals moved to 61-34 overall and 34-12 at home.
Kershaw (8-6) now has thrown 29 consecutive scoreless innings and notched his 11th career shutout. Young allowed the Grichuk and Carpenter home runs. Bartolo Colon (9-9) allowed a run on five hits with four strikeouts over eight innings for the Mets, who have lost five of their last seven.
Glen Perkins pitched a ideal ninth for his 29th save, which leads the American League.
The Red Sox have lost eight straight.
Miami right-hander Tom Koehler stymied the Padres for seven innings as the Marlins beat San Diego.
Coale has guided Oklahoma to three Final Fours. Dickey allowed 2 runs and 5 hits in 8 1/3 innings in place of ill starter Drew Hutchison.
The Normal CornBelters close out their three-game series with the Joliet Slammers at the Corn Crib. In my opinion, if he truly is, that was quite a “slump” home run for two RBI.
Chase Headley hit a three-run double in the first inning for New York, which maintained its 5-1/2 game lead atop the AL East. Neither rookie has seen action past the sixth inning. It went like this: Lose to Bumgarner, walk off dinger game two, lose to Hudson, lose to Vogelsong, and then get beat by Bumgarner once again. After two failed attempts, Zunino doubled down the left-field line. Fernando Rodney (3-4) was credited with the win for a scoreless inning of relief. Two Peoria relievers completed a no-hitter against Clinton. Carpenter was able to gun the ball home to Yadier Molina, who put the tag on Infante for the second out.
Alexei Ramirez hit a three-run homer in the fourth while Adam Eaton homered to lead off the fifth and Chicago snapped a four-game losing streak. Melky Cabrera homered twice, driving in three runs.
The score remained Cardinals four and Royals two until the top of the ninth inning. They lost to the Giants in seven games, but had one of the best playoff runs in the history of the game. He retired the last eight batters he faced.
Pittsburgh’s Francisco Liriano pitched six-plus dominant innings to steer the Pirates past Washington 7-3.
