St. Louis CardinalsvsLos Angeles Angels
STL 2/LAA 3
Things to say
The Angels beat the Cardinals 3-2 at home for a one-run win.
01
opener
Angels squeaked by the Cards 3-2. Total pitchers' duel, one-run game the whole way. Came down to the last at-bat basically.
02
key player
Whoever the Angels ran out there got into his stuff early, kept the Cardinals' heart of the order quiet all night. That's a two-run game he stole for them.
03
hot take
Cardinals are 51-48 and still can't close out a one-run game on the road. That's not a talent problem, that's a bullpen problem.
04
deep cut
The Angels are 40-61 and they're the ones grinding out low-scoring wins. Nobody's watching a last-place team play tight baseball, but that's the Halos right now.
05
exit
Anyway, one-run games are a coin flip. Curious who they throw tomorrow before the Cards leave town.
The recap
The Angels grabbed a 3-2 win over the Cardinals in a tight one at Angel Stadium, the kind of low-scoring grind where every run mattered. St.
Louis, sitting pretty above .500, couldn't push across that one extra run against a last-place Halos club that had nothing to lose. The bullpen locked it down late and the Angels squeezed out the difference at the plate.
Cardinals waste a decent night on the mound and head out having dropped one they probably should've had.