FanGraphs liked the odds of you ending your double-baseball-watching experience happily, as it posted a 79.7% Win Expectancy for the Cards, and 20.3% for the Tigers.
Boy did Win Expectancy come into play late.
The Bird’s-Eye View
Things looked perfectly fine for 6 innings. The 7th was a hellscape of a 3-1 lead becoming a 6-3 loss.
The Cards got base runners on in every inning except the 7th, notching single tallies in the 2nd, 4th. 5th, in a variety of ways. And they didn’t even need their popular bases-loaded strategy to do so.