PHOENIX • Adam Wainwright took his pitching show of guile, grit and periodic gusto onto the road Wednesday night.
The Cardinals righthander had been a hit at home this year with a 5-1 record and 2.64 earned run average. Away from home? Road kill at 2-4 and 9.48.
But Wainwright almost always has had something for the Arizona Diamondbacks and this occasion was no different. Beating the D-backs for the eighth time in 12 career decisions, Wainwright channeled his 93-34 mph fastball from glory years as he held the hard-hitting, surprising National League Western Division contenders to two runs over 6 1/3 innings, fanning eight, as he and the Cardinals barely held on for a 4-3 victory, saved by a revamped bullpen, which still had ninth-inning issues.