After bad weather caused a delay of more than two hours, Paul Goldschmidt drove in four runs to power the St. Louis Cardinals to an 11-4 victory over the visiting New York Yankees on Saturday in the first game of a day-night doubleheader.
Goldschmidt hit a three-run homer and a sacrifice fly for the Cardinals, who won for the seventh time in 11 games. Nolan Gorman hit a two-run homer, Tommy Edman went 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI and Andrew Knizner went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs.
Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty (5-5) blanked the Yankees on four hits and two walks over six innings.
Yankees starting pitcher Luis Severino (1-3) allowed nine runs (seven earned) on nine hits and three walks in four innings.
The Cardinals surged to a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning. Edman and Knizner hit singles to open the frame and Goldschmidt lined his homer over the right field fence with one out.
Gorman walked and Nolan Arenado reached on an error. Both advanced on a foul flyout, then Alec Burleson and Paul DeJong hit RBI singles.
St. Louis expanded its lead to 7-0 in the fourth inning. Lars Nootbaar doubled, and Gorman launched his homer two batters later. Arenado poked a double into the right-center-field gap, but Jordan Walker flied out to strand him.
Burleson led off the fifth inning with a double and DeJong walked, ending Severino’s day. Edman hit an RBI single, then Knizner hit a two-run double off reliever Matt Krook.
Knizner took third on a wild pitch, Nootbaar walked and Goldschmidt hit a sacrifice fly to make it 11-0.
The Yankees finally broke through off reliever James Naile in the seventh inning. A single by Isiah Kiner-Falefa, a one-out single by Anthony Volpe, a passed ball and a one-out RBI single by Oswaldo Cabrera put the Yankees on the board.
After a two-hour, 19-minute rain delay, play resumed in the bottom of the seventh.
The Yankees cut their deficit to 11-4 in the ninth inning on DJ LeMahieu’s run-scoring double-play groundout and Jake Bauers’ two-run homer.
–Field Level Media
