Nolan Aranado broke a tie with the eighth-inning home run and Lars Nutbar also defeated host Baltimor Oriols 7-4 on Tuesday night and worked as St. Louis Cardinals.
Massin Vinen scored two runs and Jordan Walker to three times the eighth innings of three runs, as the cardinals raked 14 hits, including three by Nutbar. St. Louis has won four of their last five matches.
Oriols had a season-win-game winning streak despite Ryan O’Harn’s three-run domestic run. Ryan Mountcastal watched three hits, including a couple of couples, and Ramon Urias had two hits, but Baltimore went to 1 -for -14 with runners in scoring position.
Steven Matz (3–1) was the winning pitcher, with a scorer relief innings with 1/3 innings. Ryan Halesley worked ninth for her 11th Save.
Aranado, Vinn, Alec Bernson and Walkers all made two hits for St. Louis, who managed only four hits in Monday’s series opener.
Cardinals took a 3–0 lead through two innings on the explosion of RBI Single and Nutbar’s two-run explosion of Wilson Contrass, and in the fourth, Haston climbed on the board on the RBI groundout of Haston Kejerstad.
Hot-Hitting O’Harn sent Baltimore to a 4-3 lead in the fifth with his ninth Homer of the Year, and suddenly it seemed that Oriols could regain some magic that are missing for most of the season.
But Cardinals also attracted Vinen’s run-scoring single in the seventh. Aut-out, Solo Blast, Aranado, put St. Louis ahead against Reliever Brian Baker (3–1). This year, Aranado has six domestic runs.
Cardinals then scored two more runs, as Nolan Gorman and Walker single-to-back triples and Vinen single-handed home walker. Three runs were given while recording only two outs on Baker.
St. Louis starter Andre Pallantte worked in 5 2/3 innings, allowing three runs (three acquired), while three went out and out of seven.
Oriols received a solid outing from Starter Tomoyuki Sugano, who gave three runs logging in 5 1/3 innings. Baltimore used six pitches.
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