Miles Mikolas pitched eight scoreless innings as host st louis cardinals marginal kansas city royals 2-1 Tuesday
Mikolas (3-1) allowed just three hits and a walk, while recording a career-high 10 strikeouts. Giovanny Gallegos survived Kansas City’s ninth-inning rally for his seventh save.
Nolan Arenado and Nolan Gorman drive to race cardinalwho have played 19 games in 19 days to tie the two-game series
royals Starting pitcher Zack Greinke will cardinal Five innings while allowing just two hits and a walk.he strikes six
Substitute Carlos Hernandez (0-2) sees loss as royals 8th down in 11 games
Mikolas opened by hitting Nick Pratto and allowing Vinnie Pasquantino to single. Pratto got third, but Mikolas retired the next two hitters.
this royals Threatened in the fourth inning after MJ Melendez reached fielder’s choice and got second on the field pitch.But he was knocked out trying to score on Michael Massey’s single to right field
Alec Burleson hit a single in the fifth inning for St. Louis and a wild pitch for the third. But Greinke retired the next three hitters.
After failing to score in the first 14 innings of the series, cardinal Hernandez finally broke through the sixth hurdle. Paul Goldschmidt scores on an infield single and doubles off Arenado, giving St. Louis a 1-0 lead
this cardinal They doubled their lead in the eighth inning after Tommy Edman walked and stole second base.Edman gets third on Brendan Donovan’s solo midfielder and scores on Gorman’s sacrifice fly
this royals Recovered a run in the ninth inning.Pasquitino led with a double, then third on a single from Salvador Perez and scored on an outside grounder from Bobby Waite Jr.
Witt stole second base with two outs, but Gallegos struck out Massey to end the game.
–Field-level media