Starter and loser Adam Wainwright was efficient enough, lasting seven innings in a game for the first time since last July 22. In throwing just 91 pitches, he walked no one and allowed three runs, two of them on bases-empty homers, one of which right fielder Harrison Bader fervently thought he should have caught.
The Cardinals had one of those early-day-game-after-late-night-game lineups as they played without suspended (one game) catcher Yadier Molina, Dexter Fowler and Paul DeJong from their starting lineup. DeJong and Fowler both took pinch hit at-bats. Both struck out, with Fowler stranding two runners with his game-ending strikeout.