RECAP: Padres 5, Cardinals 3
- Updated: July 2, 2015
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The San Diego Padres pushed across the winning two runs in the top of the eleventh inning on Thursday night when Will Venable hit a two-run home run, giving the Friars a 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in the first game of their four-game series.
The fun started for the Cardinals in the first inning, when Yadier Molina hit into an RBI groundout off Padres’ starter Tyson Ross, giving the Redbirds a 1-0 lead that wouldn’t last long.
The Padres scored the next three runs, first on a Yangervis Solarte solo home run in the second inning, and then followed up by an Austin Hedges RBI single in the third, and Ross’ first home run of his career in the fifth inning, all of Cardinals’ starter Tim Cooney.
The three runs gave the Padres a two-run cushion, and allowed Ross some room with which to work, but it wouldn’t be enough. In the bottom of the fifth inning, Matt Carpenter and Jason Heyward had RBIs on a single and double respectively, and the game was tied again at three runs apiece.
The 3-3 game would hold for quite a while, as the bullpens for each club locked down their opponents in the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth innings.
Ross, who was done after six innings, earned a no-decision with the tie, and while he allowed three runs on only four hits, he did walk five batters, throwing just 69 of his 115 pitches for strikes.
In the 11th, off reliever Carlos Villanueva, who was working his second inning, Venable’s two-run shot proved to be the difference in the game.
Craig Kimbrel threw a scoreless bottom of the eleventh, and the Padres — who had been reeling earlier this week before heading to St. Louis — got a much-needed win to improve to 38-43 on the year.
The Padres and Cardinals will continue their series Friday night from St. Louis.
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