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Bullpen follows blueprint in second chance
- Updated: August 4, 2016
CINCINNATI — A script left unexecuted on Tuesday was pulled back out for another try on Wednesday, and this time it was followed to near perfection to bring an end to the Cardinals’ three-game losing streak.
The team’s late-inning triumvirate of Zach Duke, Kevin Siegrist and Seung Hwan Oh — each of whom had, to varying degrees, missteps in a loss one night earlier — rebounded with scoreless outings. Their efforts sealed a 5-4 win over the Reds that allowed the Cardinals to leap the Marlins in the Wild Card standings.
With 55 games remaining, the Cardinals own a half-game advantage over the Marlins for the second Wild Card spot.
“We’ve got a good bullpen,” manager Mike Matheny said. “You’re going to have nights like [we had last night]. They erased that one and came out and were very good for us in the back end of the game.”
The Cardinals’ acquisition of Duke on Sunday was done with the hope that he could help stabilize the back end of a bullpen that has been thinned by injury and ineffectiveness. Unable …
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