PHOENIX • Having escaped danger in the Arizona seventh inning, the Cardinals tacked a run onto their lead in the eighth Wednesday night at Chase Field.
Matt Carpenter opened the inning with a double and, when it seemed as if he might be stranded at third, he came home on a two-out double by Jedd Gyorko as the Cardinals moved ahead 4-2.
LYONS RESCUES CARDS IN SEVENTH
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny had hinted before the game about a possible realignment and the first vestige of that came in the seventh inning Wednesday night when he summoned lefthander Tyler Lyons, normally his long reliever, to a first-and-third, one-out satiation left him by starter Adam Wainwright.