Cards enjoy a rare lopsided win - STLtoday.com
Ten of their previous 12 games had been decided by two runs or fewer, and six of those were one-run games. The Phillies, the majors’ worst team, had lost nine of their last 10 games and 19 of 23 before the Cardinals came to town, including a 19-3 setback at Baltimore. Their season-high run total was one more than the Cardinals had achieved in their previous five games. It’s generally a bad sign for a team when the opposing pitcher has scored three runs in his first three plate appearances. So it was for the Phils as Cardinals starter Tyler Lyons scored his third run of the game and of his career in the fifth after getting his first career run batted in earlier in the inning. Lyons said he hadn’t recalled scoring three runs in a game since high school, and no Cardinals pitcher had scored three times since Matt Morris in 2003. No major league pitcher had scored three times in a game since Cincinnati’s Mike Leake on... “I think there had to be one high school game I scored three runs,” said Lyons, not entirely sure he ever had done this before. Source: www.stltoday.com
