by Steve Dunford
ST LOUIS, MO – Michael Wacha pitched six scoreless innings, giving up four hits and striking out nine, and Alex Mejia picked up his first major league hit, and hit is first big league homer as well, as the Cardinals win their fourth in a row, beating the Washington Nationals 2-1.
Gio Gonzales was very good, took the loss. He pitched seven innings, allowing two hits. He fell to 7-3 on the season.
For the most part, the Cardinal bullpen was very good. Brett Cecil worked a scoreless 7th. Sueng Hwan Oh struck out two batters in the 8th. Tyler Lyons came in and picked up the third out in the inning.
Trevor Rosenthal, to say it mildly, had another rough outing. He gave up the only Cardinal run on two hits, two walks, and missed the bag on a potential game winning double play.
Matheny gives Rosenthal the hook after loading the bases in favor of Matt Bowman. The pitchers spot was up, and Nationals manager Dusty Baker, goes to Adrian Sanchez, who was the last position player on the bench for his first Major League at bat.
Sanchez hangs tough as he goes down on strikes looking. Bowman picks up his first save of the season.
Wacha improves to 5-3 on the Season.
Carlos Martinez, 6-6, 2.88, takes the mound for the Cardinals against Matt Scherzer in a league leading 9-5, 2.06, on Sunday Night Baseball at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN. This will be one of the best pitching matchups of the year across Major League Baseball.
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