ST. LOUIS — Jack Flaherty gained a fourth straight begin for the primary time in two years, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Washington 8-4 on Sunday to open the second half by taking two of three from the Nationals.
Paul Goldschmidt hit a two-run homer and Nolan Gorman had three hits and two RBIs for St. Louis.
Flaherty (7-5) allowed three runs, three hits and three walks in six innings with seven strikeouts. He had not gained 4 begins in a row since an 8-0 stretch from April 7 to May 19, 2021.
His scorching streak this yr adopted a stoop through which he went 0-1 over 4 begins.
Chris Stratton pitched an ideal seventh and Kyle Leahy relieved after a 38-minute rain delay. Leahy received one out and JoJo Romero the ultimate 5.
Nationals All-Star Josiah Gray (6-8) gave up 4 runs and 10 hits in 5 innings.
Keibert Ruiz homered within the second, ending Flaherty’s 13 2/3 innings scoreless streak.
Run-scoring singles by Andrew Knizner, Brendan Donovan and Lars Nootbaar within the fourth constructed a 3-1 lead for St. Louis, which had gone 0 for 8 with runners in scoring place.
Gorman homered within the fifth.
Dominic Smith had a two-run double to shallow heart within the sixth that simply eluded Nootbar’s try for a diving, backhand catch, reducing the Nationals’ deficit to 4-3.
Goldschmidt hit a 443-foot drive to heart within the sixth off Jordan Weems, Alec Burleson had an RBI groundout and Gorman added a run-scoring single for an 8-3 lead.
Abrams doubled and scored on Ruiz’s groundout within the eighth.
ROSTER MOVES
St. Louis activated Knizner (proper groin) from the 10-day injured checklist, optioned 1B Luken Baker to Memphis and returned RHP James Naile to the Triple-A farm workforce. Naile was the workforce’s twenty seventh participant in Saturday’s doubleheader.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Nationals: 3B Jeimer Candelario was a late scratch and missed his second straight sport after bruising a bone in his proper thumb Friday night time. … RHP Hunter Harvey was unavailable on account of proper forearm soreness. He received a save in Saturday’s opener.
Cardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright (proper shoulder pressure) is anticipated to throw a bullpen session on Monday.
UP NEXT
Nationals: LHP MacKenzie Gore (4-7, 4.42 ERA) is to start out Monday’s opener of a three-game sequence on the Chicago Cubs, who counter with LHP Drew Smiley (7-6, 4.31 ERA). It will probably be Gore’s first begin at Wrigley Field.
Cardinals: RHP Miles Mikolas (5-5, 4.12) begins Monday’s opener of a three-game sequence in opposition to visiting Miami, which ship LHP Jesús Luzardo (8-5, 3.29 ERA) to the mound.
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