Contreras homers twice to assist Cardinals knock off Padres 6-5 in 10 innings

ST. LOUIS — Willson Contreras placed on a present for his dad and mom.

The St. Louis catcher homered twice, pinch-hitter Tommy Edman singled within the deciding run within the tenth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres 6-5 on Tuesday night time to snap a four-game dropping streak.

Edman slammed the primary pitch from Josh Hader (0-2) to left area with one out to herald Maysn Winn. Richie Palacios arrange the profitable run with a two-strike bunt to maneuver Winn to 3rd.

Contreras was taking part in in entrance his dad and mom for the primary time as a member of the Cardinals. Olga and William Contreras flew in from Venezuela earlier within the day.

“Having my family in the stands, it means a lot to me,” Contreras mentioned. “I’m here because of them. I owe them a lot.”

Contreras reduce it to 4-3 within the sixth together with his first homer, then tied it at 5 with a two-run homer within the eighth off Robert Suarez. After the tying blast, Contreras smiled and pointed his dad and mom within the stands after he touched residence plate.

PHOTOS: Contreras homers twice to assist Cardinals knock off Padres 6-5 in 10 innings

“I was just trying to do something good for them,” Contreras mentioned. “We haven’t played well lately and we needed something to change to mood around here.”

Contreras has 15 homers. He has recorded three multi-homer video games this season and 14 general. He turns into solely the second St. Louis catcher to have three multi-homer video games in the identical season. Tom Pagnozzi did it in 1996.

JoJo Romero (4-1) struck out two batters within the tenth.

Luis Campusano homered for San Diego, which has misplaced 4 of 5 to fall to 7-16 in August. The Padres are 0-11 in extra-inning video games.

Matthew Batten had 4 hits for San Diego. Ha-Seong Kim had two hits and reached base thrice. He drove in a run within the eighth with a sacrifice fly.

Edman was initially given the night time off by supervisor Oliver Marmol. He felt like Edman could be the proper option to pinch hit with the competition on the road.

“He’s a student of the game,” Marmol mentioned. ”He was prepared for it.”

Edman had his fourth profession walkoff hit.

“That was a good way to end the off day,” Edman mentioned. “Just thought I could contribute in some way. We haven’t had too many wins like that recently. It felt pretty good,”

San Diego grew to become the primary group to lose 11 successive further inning contests since Tampa Bay additionally dropped 11 in a row in 2015.

“We had some hits, but we did leave some guys on base,” San Diego supervisor Bob Melvin mentioned. “Those are the things you look back on.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: LHP Matthew Liberatore (decrease again tightness) pitched for Triple-A Memphis and allowed 5 runs and 4 hits in 3 2/3 innings. OF Lars Nootbaar will begin for Memphis on Wednesday and Thursday. He has been out since August 18 due to a decrease stomach contusion. He is prone to rejoin the group Friday.

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