Jul 21, 2025

Cardinals swept by D-Backs to start second half falling 5-3 in finale

Posted Jul 21, 2025 12:02 AM

By MATT PIKE

The second half of the Major League baseball season didn't quite open how the St. Louis Cardinals hoped it would, as the Redbirds were swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks after falling 5-3 on Sunday afternoon at Chase Field in their series finale. 

Miles Mikolas again struggled on the mound as the Cardinals quickly fell behind 4-0 in the first inning, Corbin Carroll again leading off the inning with a triple before scoring as Geraldo Perdomo reached on a fielders choice, Brendan Donovan attempting to throw Carroll out at home but catcher Yohel Pozo missing the tag.  After Josh Naylor walked, a hot target as the trade deadline approaches, Eugenio Suárez, hit his 34th home run of the season, a three run blast to left field. 

The Cardinals scored a run in the top of the third inning, Victor Scott II leading off the inning with a double and coming home on a single by Iván Herrera, but in the bottom half of the inning the Diamondbacks got the run back for their final score of the game as Suárez hit his second home run of the game, and his 35th of the season, putting him behind only Cal Raleigh and Aaron Judge for the most in major league baseball. 

St. Louis added one more run in the fifth inning, Brendan Donovan grounding out with the bases loaded after three straight walks, scoring Pozo, to cut the lead to three.  The Cardinals though managed just one more run, scoring again in the ninth inning on an RBI double by Jordan Walker, driving in Masyn Winn.  

Mikolas took the loss, falling to 5-7 on the season, pitching four innings and giving up all five runs on four hits while striking out three and walking two.  At the plate, Walker was 2-for-3 with the double, a walk, and an RBI. 

St. Louis will now travel to Colorado.  Michael McGreevy (1-1, 4.22 ERA) takes the mound for the Cardinals against former Cardinal Austin Gomber (0-3, 5.65 ERA) for the Rockies.  First pitch is at 7:40pm with coverage being joined around 7:30 on KY 102 (102.5 FM). 

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