Not a whole lot to say about this game. It was a very well-pitched game on both sides, but it was the Cardinals who blinked first. All it took for the Rockies to win the game was a sacrifice fly by Ezequiel Tovar.
The Cardinals stranded 15 runners today, as the big hit simply eluded them. They stranded the bases loaded twice against a normally woeful Rockies pitching staff. The worst moment of the game had to have been when Paul Goldschmidt failed to capitalize in the eighth with the bases loaded.
Let’s break this one down and get into a few takeaways.