Philadelphia Phillies vs St. Louis Cardinals Box Score on Jun 09, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 9, 2017

ST. LOUIS -- After making a series of moves among the 25-man roster and coaching staff Friday in response to a winless seven-game road trip, the St. Louis Cardinals made one more to snap their longest losing streak in 10 years.

They finally benefited from a well-pitched game.

Michael Wacha worked six solid innings and a bullpen which has been torched lately followed up with three scoreless innings to seal the Cardinals' 3-2 verdict over the Philadelphia Phillies at Busch Stadium.

Wacha (3-3) allowed five hits and two runs in six innings, walking two and fanning two as he made it through the fifth inning for the first time in four starts. The relief corps, which gave up 11 runs in their last 8 1/3 innings, held the fort this time.

Matt Bowman struck out the side in the seventh. Trevor Rosenthal worked around a leadoff single in the eighth to maintain the lead.

Seung Hwan Oh wrapped it up in the ninth for his 14th save in 16 chances despite Aaron Altherr's bloop double to start the inning. After Altherr reached third on Maikel Franco's groundout, Oh fanned Andrew Knapp. Freddy Galvis' liner to left was snagged by a diving Tommy Pham near the line to end it.

It was just the sixth win in 23 games for St. Louis (27-32). Philadelphia (21-38) lost its third in a row after winning four straight.

Jeremy Hellickson (5-4) absorbed the loss after giving up 10 hits and three runs in six innings. He walked one and struck out five.

Philadelphia initiated the scoring in the top of the third inning with a pair of two-out runs. Howie Kendrick doubled to left, Tommy Joseph singled him home on the first pitch and Altherr lined an 0-2 mistake pitch off the wall in right for a triple.

St. Louis tied it with two in its half of the inning. Matt Carpenter singled and Dexter Fowler doubled him to third. Stephen Piscotty's sacrifice fly to the wall in center scored Carpenter, and Jedd Gyorko's single plated Fowler to tie it at 2.

The Cardinals grabbed their first lead in the fifth when Aledmys Diaz clouted his sixth homer of the year to left-center field. It was his first homer since May 1.

NOTES: St. Louis Friday activated 2B Kolten Wong (elbow) from the 10-day disabled list and designated INF Jhonny Peralta for assignment. In the final season of a four-year, $52 million deal, Peralta was batting only .204 with no RBIs in 58 plate appearances. ... The Cardinals also reassigned third base coach Chris Maloney within the organization, moved quality control coach Mike Shildt to Maloney's old post and added long-time minor league manager/coach Ron Warner to the coaching staff. ... St. Louis also announced assistant hitting coach Bill Mueller is taking a leave of absence. It promoted Memphis hitting coach Mark Budaska to fill the same role. ... Philadelphia CF Odubel Herrera's six-game streak of at least one extra-base hit ended Friday night.