Tampa Bay Rays vs St. Louis Cardinals Match Player Stats On Aug 27, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Aug 27, 2017

ST. LOUIS -- Logan Morrison belted his second solo homer of the game with one out in the 10th inning Sunday to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.

Morrison rifled a 1-1 pitch from Sam Tuivailala (3-3) 411 feet to right-center for his 31st of the year, enabling Tampa Bay (65-67) to remain three games behind Minnesota for the American League's second wild-card spot.

Sergio Romo (2-0) struck out the side in the ninth for his second win of the series. Alex Colome pitched the 10th to earn his big league-high 39th save in 44 chances.

St. Louis' Matt Carpenter tied the game in the bottom of the eighth with a leadoff homer to right-center off Dan Jennings, his 17th of the year. It was just his second against a left-handed pitcher.

Tampa Bay broke the scoring seal in the top of the fourth inning. Morrison attacked a first-pitch changeup and drilled it into the seats in right-center, marking the first time in his career that he's clouted 30 homers.

Brad Miller made it 2-0 in the seventh with a leadoff homer to center, the ball barely clearing the wall and the glove of the leaping Dexter Fowler. It was Miller's sixth homer of the year after reaching the 30 mark in 2016.

Kolten Wong got St. Louis on the board in the bottom of the seventh with his fourth homer of the year and his second of the series. He ripped a full-count pitch over the Cardinals' bullpen into the right-center field bleachers.

Both starters were no-decisioned in spite of quality outings. Tampa Bay's Chris Archer lasted seven innings, giving up only five hits and a run with a walk and eight strikeouts. It was the first time in four starts that Archer hasn't whiffed 10 hitters.

St. Louis' Lance Lynn also pitched seven innings, permitting six hits and two runs with three walks and eight punchouts. Lynn remained unbeaten since July 4.

The Cardinals (65-65) remained 4 1/2 games behind the first place Chicago Cubs in the National League Central.

NOTES: St. Louis 3B Jedd Gyorko (right hamstring strain) was placed on the 10-day DL Sunday after injuring himself in the eighth inning Saturday night. The club recalled 1B Luke Voit from Triple-A Memphis. ... Saturday night's 6-4 loss marked the sixth consecutive game Tampa Bay has lost when hitting at least three homers. ... Cardinals CF Dexter Fowler (illness) was back in the lineup Sunday, batting fourth. Fowler was sent home Saturday night as a precaution in case he was actually contagious.