Cards hit 4 HRs to help Flaherty in 14-3 prevail upon Braves

         

ATLANTA (AP) — It was hard for Jack Flaherty to appreciate a runaway win over Atlanta since he couldn't evade one awful inning.

Flaherty didn't need to stress. His St. Louis partners roughed up Braves pitching throughout the night.
St. Louis hit four grand slams, including three-run shots by Marcell Ozuna , Yadier Molina and Kolten Wong, and the Cardinals beat battling right-hander Mike Foltynewicz and the Braves 14-3 on Tuesday.

Flaherty (4-3) did not permit a hit through four innings. St. Louis drove 11-0 preceding Flaherty surrendered three runs and three hits in the fifth.

"Another long inning," Flaherty stated, including "I must avoid that."
Cardinals supervisor Mike Schildt permitted Flaherty to stay in the diversion and end on a good note with an ideal 6th inning.

"I had the option to traverse it," Flaherty said.
The 2019 battles for Foltynewicz (0-3) proceeded. He surrendered eight runs, coordinating his profession high, while enduring just 4 2/3 innings.
Foltynewicz, a 2018 All-Star, saw his ERA move to 8.02 in four begins. He started the season on the harmed rundown with a bone goad in his correct elbow. He demands his elbow is fine.

"It's truly disappointing," Foltynewicz said. "It's nothing with the elbow or anything. We're past that."
Foltynewicz has permitted eight homers in 21 1/3 innings in the wake of permitting 17 out of 183 innings in 2018, when he was 13-10 with a 2.85 ERA and 202 strikeouts.

Conquers director Brian Snitker said before the amusement he trusted Foltynewicz would be prepared to locate his top structure after the poor start to his season. Rather, the right-hander battled from the principal inning.

"Sort of everything is level and not turning out genuine great," Snitker said. "He paid for it."
Ozuna's homer gave the Cardinals a 3-0 lead in the first. Dexter Fowler begun the fourth with a homer to right, and Molina's shot thumped Foltynewicz out of the diversion and was the huge hit in a six-run fifth.

Wong added to the lead with his three-run homer off Jonny Venters in the ninth.

Atlanta's initially hit off Flaherty in the fifth was Brian McCann's messed up bat dribbler against the cautious move toward a surrendered third base. McCann scored on substitute Charlie Culberson's single to left. Ronald Acuña Jr. drew a bases-stacked stroll off Flaherty to drive in a run.

The Cardinals were closed out in every one of Flaherty's last two begins. Reinforced by the huge hostile help against the Braves, Flaherty permitted three keeps running on three hits in six innings in spite of coordinating his profession high with five strolls. He had six strikeouts.

St. Louis outhit the Braves 14-3. Each cardinal starter, including Flaherty, had in any event one hit.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Cardinals: RHP Carlos Martinez (bear) is planned to toss 30 pitches for Double-A Springfield on Wednesday. On the off chance that all goes well, he could join the group this end of the week in Texas.

Conquers: CF Ender Inciarte left the diversion with lower back snugness before the fourth inning and was being inspected after the amusement. ... 1B Freddie Freeman began subsequent to missing Sunday's amusement with a disease and having Monday's off day for additional recuperation time. Freeman was as yet debilitated, as indicated by Snitker, who pulled the first baseman for substitute Matt Joyce in the fifth.

HOME IN THE SOUTH

The Cardinals improved to 6-1 at SunTrust Park, which opened in 2017. They are 9-1 in their last 10 amusements in Atlanta since the beginning of the 2016 season.

BIDDLE RETURNS

Atlanta left-hander Jesse Biddle, initiated off the harmed rundown before the diversion, supplanted Foltynewicz in the fifth and surrendered four straight hits and a walk. He was accused of three runs while recording one out.

Program MOVES

Atlanta right-hander Wes Parsons, who was reviewed from Triple-A Gwinnett, pitched three scoreless innings. Left-hander Jerry Blevins was assigned for task.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: RHP Michael Wacha (3-0, 5.35) is 0-2 out of five profession diversions, including three begins, against the Braves entering Wednesday night's amusement. He permitted two keeps running in a no-choice in his solitary past begin at SunTrust Park in May 7, 2017.
Overcomes: RHP Mike Soroka (3-1, 1.21) has permitted just four earned keeps running in five begins this season entering his first profession begin against St. Louis.