Los Angeles Dodgers vs St. Louis Cardinals Match Player Stats On May 30, 2017

The Sports Xchange
May 30, 2017

ST. LOUIS -- Three big innings lifted the Los Angeles Dodgers to a sixth consecutive win Tuesday night.

Scoring four runs in the third inning, three more in the fifth and two more in the ninth, Los Angeles wiped out an early three-run deficit and beat the slumping St. Louis Cardinals 9-4 at Busch Stadium.

In winning their sixth straight game, the Dodgers (33-20) got 11 hits, including three from Chase Utley. Enrique Hernandez drove in a pair of runs, while Logan Forsythe reached base five times, collecting two hits and knocking in a run.

Reliever Brandon Morrow (1-0) pitched a 1-2-3 fifth inning for the win as starter Kenta Maeda failed to pitch the required five innings to qualify for the decision. Maeda allowed four hits and three runs in four innings and 82 pitches, walking three and whiffing two.

Michael Wacha (2-3) lasted only three innings and 77 pitches, permitting five hits and four runs, three earned. He walked two and fanned four.

Yadier Molina drove in three runs for St. Louis (24-25), homering to start the eighth. The blast cut the deficit to 7-4 and ended the Los Angeles bullpen's scoreless streak at 24 2/3 innings.

The Dodgers added on in the ninth, getting a sacrifice fly from Hernandez and an RBI double from pinch hitter Austin Barnes to cut off any hope of a Cardinals rally.

It was the 10th loss in 13 games for St. Louis, which fell under .500 for the first time since May 4.

St. Louis touched Maeda for three runs in the first inning for the second straight outing. Two throwing errors after Matt Carpenter's single allowed Dexter Fowler to score, and Molina poked a two-run single up the middle to plate Tommy Pham and Carpenter.

But Wacha, as was the case in a 7-3 loss to the Dodgers on Thursday night, failed to hold the early lead.

In the third, Adrian Gonzalez knocked in a run with a sacrifice fly, Utley drove in the second run with a ground-rule double to left, and Hernandez's RBI infield hit -- plus a throwing error on second baseman Paul DeJong -- chased the other runs home.

The Dodgers added three runs in the fifth on just one hit. Bases-loaded walks to Yasiel Puig and pinch hitter Franklin Gutierrez scored the first two runs, and a fielder's choice bouncer by Forsythe upped the advantage to 7-3.

NOTES: St. Louis 3B Jedd Gyorko was scratched from the lineup less than three hours before game time after receiving word that his wife was about to give birth to the couple's third child. ... Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday that LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (2-5, 4.28 ERA) would fill injured LHP Alex Wood's spot in the rotation Wednesday night against the Cardinals RHP Carlos Martinez (3-4, 3.32 ERA). ... St. Louis RF Stephen Piscotty will return to the club Wednesday after a five-day hiatus to deal with a personal matter.