ST. LOUIS — Miles Mikolas had allowed just eight hits over his previous three games, covering 23 innings. And he had one win and two losses to show for those efforts.
Mikolas was in that same form again Saturday at Busch Stadium, limiting the Chicago Cubs to four hits and one run in six innings while fanning a season-high-tying nine before a second consecutive sellout crowd of 45,159 on a sweltering day. But he didn't win this one either although the Cardinals did, 5-3, after blowing a two-run lead.
Backup catcher Ivan Herrera hit a deep sacrifice fly to left in the eighth inning to send home pinch runner Edmundo Sosa from third with the go-ahead run. Sosa was running for Juan Yepez, who had doubled with one out off Mark Leiter, Jr,
