Saturday night’s start was at Busch Stadium, however, where he was 5-2 and 2.26 with the seventh best home ERA in the league. Both numbers got even better as Wainwright, taking full advantage of perhaps the Cardinals’ best defensive game of the season, also struck out eight and held the Pittsburgh Pirates to just one run over six innings.
Tommy Edman made a backyard homer out of a double in the sixth inning to break 1-1 tie. The Cardinals added another run in the inning and the Cardinals’ bullpen, which locked down the Pirates for five innings on Friday, stifled them for three more hitless innings Saturday as the Cardinals won 3-1 although they didn’t have a run batted in on a ball hit out of the infield.