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- Updated: September 29, 2016
ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals may be scoreboard-watching, hoping for one of the two clubs ahead of them in the National League Wild Card standings to stumble, but no one else’s results matter if they don’t start tabulating victories of their own. And on Wednesday night, they couldn’t, falling to the Reds, 2-1, in a loss that dropped St Louis further back in a race that has entered its final days.
The loss leaves the Cardinals, who have four regular-season games remaining, 2 1/2 games back of the Mets in the Wild Card standings. The Giants sit 1 1/2 games ahead of St. Louis, pending the outcome of San Francisco’s late game against the Rockies.
Adam Duvall’s two-run bloop single in the third supplied …
