Cardinals and Nationals Battle To A Split - Skenes Records First KPSL Win.

The Cardinals and Nationals tussled in Cherry Hill Thursday night. It was a split. Games were not particularly close, but its always fun to roll with Jeff.

GAME 1

NATIONALS 5

CARDINALS 2

WP: Sanchez

LP: Gausman

S: Junis

The goings on: Let's start with the fact that I tried something here. I have Tom Saggese (soo-JAY-see) who can hit lefties. What he can't do well is play third. But I put him there anyway in place of an injured Jose Iglecias. Saggase got the x roll right away and that turned into an unearned run for Washy. St. Loo took a 2-1 lead into the sixth and it all fell apart for Kevin Gausman. Josh Rojas had a pinch double to drive in two and give the nats the lead. Profar followed with another two run double to make it 5-2. The Cardinals went quietly the rest of the way.

GAME 2

CARDINALS 6

NATIONALS 3

WP: Irvin

LP: Ferrer

S: Walker

The goings on: this is the way it's supposed to work for the Cards. Get the lead and turn it over to the bullpen. After falling behind 3-0 on homers from Profar and Muncy, the Cardinals got two in the second from Masyn (7 homers already) Winn. In the seventh, the pesky cards got four runs with just one extra base hit. Then we turned it over to the bullpen. Robertson, Iglecias and Walker gave up just one hit and a walk over the last three innings striking out six and nailing home the win.

GAME 3:

NATIONALS 6

CARDINALS 2

WP: Rodon

LP: Waldron

The Goings On: Jeff got homers from Bride and Wade and took a 5-1 lead and coasted. Rodon went 51/3 of solid pitching. The Cardinals stranded multiple runners on base  three times. Saggese (bad idea) homered, but had two more errors.

GAME 4:

CARDINALS 8

NATIONALS 2

WP: Skenes

LP: WIlliams

The Goings on: Skenes was great again to pick up his first KPSL win. He went six innings striking out eight while surrendering just two hits. Yellich drove home three runs for St. Loo while Arenado added a homer. The Cardinals also walked six times vs. washington pitching.

Paul Skenes records his first career win against the Nationals.