Cardinals’ Jack Flaherty wins fourth straight start with victory over Nationals

Jack Flaherty received a fourth straight begin for the primary time in two years, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Washington 8-4 on Sunday to open the second half by taking two of three from the Nationals.

Paul Goldschmidt hit a two-run homer and Nolan Gorman had three hits and two RBIs for St. Louis.

Flaherty (7-5) allowed three runs, three hits and three walks in six innings with seven strikeouts. He had not received 4 begins in a row since an 8-0 stretch from April 7 to Could 19, 2021.

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“Good issues occur while you get forward,” Flaherty stated. “A number of issues that I’ve been making an attempt to work on and get higher all year long, from getting forward and fastball command, I did loads higher job of that at present.”

His sizzling streak this 12 months adopted a hunch during which he went 0-1 over 5 begins.

“Jack, he was on the assault from the primary inning,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol stated. “His stuff seemed actually good. Commanded the fastball extraordinarily effectively, bought lots of swing and miss on the curveball, miss on the slider and changeup.”

Chris Stratton pitched an ideal seventh and Kyle Leahy relieved after a 38-minute rain delay. Leahy bought one out and JoJo Romero the ultimate 5 for the Cardinals, who’re final within the NL Central at 40-53.

“We simply bought to play effectively daily and put a bunch of wins collectively,” Goldschmidt stated. “So, if we do this, we bought an opportunity.”

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St. Louis Cardinals Paul Goldschmidt (46) is congratulated by teammate Brendan Donovan (33) after hitting a two-run residence run through the sixth inning of a baseball recreation towards the Washington Nationals Sunday, July 16, 2023, in St. Louis. (AP Picture/Jeff Roberson)

Nationals All-Star Josiah Grey (6-8) gave up 4 runs and 10 hits in 5 innings.

“He had visitors from the primary inning on,” Nationals supervisor Dave Martinez stated. “He couldn’t actually set up his fastball at present, he threw much more sliders, much more cutters. He bought out of some jams you recognize and gave us all he had for 5 innings. You recognize, I assumed that was sufficient. He had 95 pitches.”

Keibert Ruiz homered within the second, ending Flaherty’s 13 2/3 innings scoreless streak.

Run-scoring singles by Andrew Knizner, Brendan Donovan and Lars Nootbaar within the fourth constructed a 3-1 lead for St. Louis, which had gone 0 for 8 with runners in scoring place.

JOHNNY BENCH APOLOGIZES FOR ‘INSENSITIVE’ COMMENT AT REDS CEREMONY

St. Louis Cardinals Nolan Gorman (16) tosses his bat after hitting a solo residence run through the fifth inning of a baseball recreation towards the Washington Nationals Sunday, July 16, 2023, in St. Louis. (AP Picture/Jeff Roberson)

Gorman homered within the fifth.

“He’s taking significantly better at-bats,” Marmol stated of Gorman. “As we speak was one other good day for him. He’s staying on the ball effectively. Even on the flyouts, you possibly can inform he’s staying by way of the zone loads higher.”

Dominic Smith had a two-run double to shallow heart within the sixth that simply eluded Nootbar’s try for a diving, backhand catch, slicing the Nationals’ deficit to 4-3.

Goldschmidt hit a 443-foot drive to heart within the sixth off Jordan Weems, Alec Burleson had an RBI groundout and Gorman added a run-scoring single for an 8-3 lead.

Abrams doubled and scored on Ruiz’s groundout within the eighth.

REDS’ JOHNNY BENCH APPEARS TO MAKE ANTISEMITIC REMARK AT TEAM CEREMONY

St. Louis Cardinals Lars Nootbaar, left, is congratulated by teammate Jack Flaherty (22) after hitting a solo residence run through the first inning of a baseball recreation towards the Washington Nationals Friday, July 14, 2023, in St. Louis. (AP Picture/Jeff Roberson)

“We had a superb collection there,” Flaherty stated. “We have been a few pitches away from taking all three. We’ll take this one, construct on it and transfer on to the subsequent one.”

ROSTER MOVES

St. Louis activated Knizner (proper groin) from the 10-day injured listing, optioned 1B Luken Baker to Memphis and returned RHP James Naile to the Triple-A farm group. Naile was the group’s twenty seventh participant in Saturday’s doubleheader.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Nationals: 3B Jeimer Candelario was a late scratch and missed his second straight recreation after bruising a bone in his proper thumb Friday night time. … RHP Hunter Harvey was (proper forearm soreness) was despatched again to D.C. to get an MRI. He bought a save in Saturday’s opener.

Cardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright (proper shoulder pressure) is predicted to throw a bullpen session on Monday.

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St. Louis Cardinals Lars Nootbaar, left, Dylan Carlson and Alec Burleson, proper, have a good time an 8-4 victory over the Washington Nationals following a baseball recreation Sunday, July 16, 2023, in St. Louis. (AP Picture/Jeff Roberson)

UP NEXT

Nationals: LHP MacKenzie Gore (4-7, 4.42 ERA) is to start out Monday’s opener of a three-game collection on the Chicago Cubswho counter with LHP Drew Smiley (7-6, 4.31 ERA). Will probably be Gore’s first begin at Wrigley Discipline.

Cardinals: RHP Miles Mikolas (5-5, 4.12) begins Monday’s opener of a three-game collection towards visiting Miamiwhich ship LHP Jesús Luzardo (8-5, 3.29 ERA) to the mound.