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Bat’s the ticket: Waino lumbers up for 1st win
- Updated: April 28, 2016
PHOENIX — The potent Cardinals offense collected 14 hits and rolled past the D-backs, 11-4, Wednesday night at Chase Field, marking the fifth straight game St. Louis has scored at least seven runs.
Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright picked up his first win of the season, in part because he led the offense with three RBIs, thanks to a bases-loaded triple off D-backs starter Patrick Corbin that ignited a five-run Cardinals sixth inning. Matt Carpenter, Matt Holliday and Aledmys Diaz each added two RBIs apiece.
The D-backs scored a pair of runs in the second on a Brandon Drury homer and one in the fourth on Paul Goldschmidt’s long ball to take a 3-1 lead before the Cardinals’ offense got going with a run in the fifth, five in the sixth and three in the seventh.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDWainwright delivers at the plate: Cardinals manager Mike Matheny gambled by letting Wainwright bat with the bases full, one out and the team down a run in the sixth. But Wainwright made the move look genius when he sliced a triple down the left-field line to ignite a five-run inning. The triple was the second of Wainwright’s career and the first by a Cardinals pitcher since 2012.
Corbin roughed up: For the second straight start, Corbin was not sharp, walking five while getting tagged for seven runs over 5 2/3 innings. …
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