ST. LOUIS — Andre Pallante allowed two hits in six shutout innings and the St. Louis Cardinals used a five-run eighth inning to beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-1 on Friday night time.
Pallante (5-3) allowed a stroll and a second-inning single to Matt McLain earlier than leaving with a 1-0 lead after a broken-bat single by Elly De La Cruz to start the seventh. Phil Maton obtained three outs to finish it.
St. Louis scored 5 runs off relievers Scott Barlow, Taylor Rogers and Tony Santillan — who retired one batter every. Masyn Winn drove within the first run with a single off Rogers and Lars Nootbaar’s single off Santillan capped the rally after a two-out throwing error by Gavin Lux led to 2 runs.
Brendan Donovan reached on a fielder’s selection, took third on a Winn double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Alec Burleson to provide St. Louis a 1-0 lead within the third in opposition to Reds starter Brady Singer (7-5).
Singer allowed one run on 4 hits and a stroll in six innings, hanging out seven and retiring his closing 9 batters.
Santiago Espinal singled main off the eighth in opposition to John King and scored on a throwing error by Jordan Walker on Jose Trevino’s double to proper area for the Reds’ run.
Thomas Saggese, was referred to as up from Triple-A Memphis earlier than the sport, hit the grounder that Lux threw away. He changed catcher Iván Herrera, who was positioned on the 10-day injured checklist with a left hamstring pressure.
Cincinnati is 59-101 since 2006 at Busch Stadium.
Key second
Within the seventh, Maton obtained Tyler Stephenson to hit right into a double play on his first pitch earlier than hanging out Spencer Steer swinging.
Key stat
Pallante entered with a 5-2 document and a pair of.18 ERA in six begins and 16 appearances in opposition to Cincinnati — tied with Harry Brecheen for the fourth-lowest ERA by a Cardinals pitcher in opposition to the Reds.
Up subsequent
Reds LHP Wade Miley (1-0, 6.75) was set to begin Saturday in opposition to RHP Sonny Grey (7-2, 3.84).
