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- Updated: August 9, 2016
ST. LOUIS — What was, for eight innings, one of the lesser inspired performances by the Cardinals this season finished as perhaps their most defining victory to date. Down to their final out, they scored five runs for a 5-4 walk-off win over the Reds on Monday night at Busch Stadium to pull to within a half-game of a National League Wild Card spot.
The Cardinals entered the ninth inning with five hits, no runs and hitless in 11 chances with a runner in scoring position. That changed when Matt Carpenter, up with the bases full, lined a two-run single to extend the game. An RBI single by Stephen Piscotty pulled the Cards within one, and a bases-loaded walk by Brandon Moss evened the score at 4.
When Ross Ohlendorf, who inherited a mess created by Reds closer Tony Cingrani, hit Yadier Molina two pitches later, the Cardinals had their third win of the season in a game they trailed after eight innings.
The ninth-inning unraveling erased what was looking to be the first Major League win for Reds starter Cody Reed, who outdueled Michael Wacha by turning in the best start of his young career with six shutout frames.
Reed, 0-6 with a 7.30 ERA coming into the game, was tagged for five runs over five innings five days earlier against St. Louis.
The Reds gave him an early four-run lead and forced Wacha to throw 65 pitches over the first three innings. After working out of a bases-loaded jam in the first, Wacha found himself back in a bind after yielding a pair of leadoff singles in the second. Zack Cozart’s two-out double opened the scoring, and Joey Votto …
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