Rockies vs Cardinals

The Headline: Jake McCarthy puts on a historic one-man clinic to snap Colorado’s slide, while the Cardinals strand enough baserunners to populate a small Missouri town in an 8-6 defeat.
The Recap:
If you wanted to know what an absolute nightmare for a pitching staff looks like, Matthew Liberatore and the Cardinals bullpen can point directly to Jake McCarthy. The Rockies outfielder decided to treat Busch Stadium like his own personal video game, opening the night by launching the very first pitch of the game out of the park and refusing to stop until he’d gone 4-for-4 with two homers, three RBIs, four runs scored, and a pair of stolen bases. Statistically, it was a line so absurd it had never been put up against St. Louis in franchise history.
The Cardinals tried to claw back—including Jordan Walker finally ending a brutal 94-at-bat drought with his first homer in a month—but St. Louis had a severe allergy to cashing in their chips. The Redbirds went an abysmal 3-for-16 with runners in scoring position and left a staggering 12 men stranded on base, turning every rally into a slow-motion car crash. Jordan Romano slammed the door in the ninth, letting the Rockies escape with a much-needed win and leaving St. Louis wondering how one guy managed to beat them all by himself.