Cardinals’ starting pitching is stuck on mediocre

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ST. LOUIS – One of the last things the St. Louis Cardinals can afford is for Jaime Garcia to fall into a rut.

Already, the Cardinals have seen all their other starting pitchers endure multi-start slumps, while Garcia has provided the closest thing to consistency. That run came to a crashing halt Sunday in the Cardinals’ 7-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Garcia (3-4) couldn’t get out of the third inning for the first time in nearly four years, as the Diamondbacks turned his pitches into hit after hit for 10 in all. Garcia’s reliability has been important because veterans Adam Wainwright and Mike Leake are only just emerging from sluggish starts, and Carlos Martinez and Michael Wacha have had a …

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