St. Louis Cardinals’ starter Andre Pallante took the mound yesterday in the series finale in Nationals Park with a 4.81 ERA, a 4.68 FIP, and a rough .302/.359/.453 line against in 48 2⁄3 IP in 10 appearances (nine of them starts) in the last two months, since the right-hander moved into the Cards’ rotation.
Pallante proceeded to throw 8+ scoreless in which he gave up five hits and a walk, leaving the mound after giving up back-to-back hits in the bottom of the ninth inning of what ended up a 5-0 win for the visitors in the nation’s capital.