337 games, and a first
The Cardinals had walked into Dodger Stadium 336 times before Tuesday night, postseason included, and never once left having scored 13 runs. That changed overnight. St. Louis piled up 13 hits, five of them home runs, scored in six separate innings and took the series opener 13-8.
The last time the franchise put 13 or more on the Dodgers away from home, the venue was Ebbets Field and the year was 1954. Their road record against the club sits at 15 runs, set on 30 May 1960 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Some numbers wait a long time to move.
“It’s fun. It’s hard to do against those guys,” manager Oli Marmol said. “They’re very good, they pitch it well. You look at their bullpen and it’s strong. So to be able to put 13 on the board the way we did it, because it was a lot of different ways, was the best part about it.”
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Saggese lands in company he did not expect
Thomas Saggese arrived at the ballpark with four career home runs across 134 games. He left with six across 135. The Carlsbad native, playing an hour or so from where he grew up, became the 15th Cardinal to hit two home runs in a game at Dodger Stadium.
The previous one was Albert Pujols, who hit career home runs 699 and 700 at the same ballpark on 23 September 2022. Saggese’s father was in the stands to watch.
“It means a lot, especially to do it in a big marketplace, in L.A.,” Saggese said. “My dad doesn’t get to go to a lot of games, so to do it in front of him, even to hit one, I was like, man, that’s really cool.”
Walker keeps a strange streak alive
Jordan Walker added his 28th home run of the season in the fourth, a Statcast-projected 409 feet at 109.3 mph off the bat. It was the 55th of his career, and it came off the 55th different pitcher he has taken deep. Elias Sports Bureau records that as the second-longest run of home runs against different pitchers to open a career since at least 1900, trailing only Willy Adames on 57.
Leo Bernal, the club’s No. 7 prospect, was called up for his debut on Tuesday and needed until the third inning to collect his first big league hit, a bases-loaded two-run single struck at 107.6 mph.
Los Angeles have two more games to answer.
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