Yohel Pozo delivers pinch-hit RBI single in 9th inning to

LOS ANGELES (AP)– Pinch-hitter Yohel Pozo provided a tiebreaking RBI single with 2 outs in the ninth inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals held on for a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.After Willson Contreras got a leadoff single off new Dodgers reducer Brock Stewart (2-2), pinch-runner Garrett Hampson ultimately scored on a soft single to right by Pozo. The Cards’ backup catcher commemorated enthusiastically after just his second hit in his last eight games.Advertisement Sonny Gray yielded one hit over

seven outstanding innings for the Cards, and 2 reducers combined on a perilous three-hitter for St. Louis.Riley O’Brien (1-0)made his very first profession triumph at 30 years

old in spite of blowing a lead in the eighth. JoJo Romero then got his second save despite giving up a leadoff single to Shohei Ohtani, retiring Max Muncy on a line drive to right with 2 on for the final out.Gray had an entertaining battle with Tyler Glasnow, who quit 3 hits in 7 innings of one-run ball for Los Angeles.Iván Herrera hit a two-out homer in the 8th for St. Louis, but Teoscar Hernández doubled and scored the tying run on two groundouts in

the bottom half for LA.Advertisement Masyn Winn ended his 32-game homer dry spell in the Cardinals’3rd success in nine games.Freddie Freeman homered for the NL West-leading Dodgers, who was up to 7-9 since the All-Star break with another tepid offending efficiency in their return from an average nine-game road trip.Key minute After Ohtani’s single, Lars Nootbaar made an incredible diving catch on Mookie Betts ‘tailing fly to the right field line.Key stat Glasnow is winless in nine starts because March 31 in spite of publishing a 2.17 age given that his return last month. He

retired 17 of his

last 18 batters without a hit.Up next Miles Mikolas (6-8, 4.83 AGE )pitches for St. Louis against Emmet Sheehan (2-2, 3.60 AGE)on Tuesday.

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