ST. LOUIS — Nolan Arenado homered for the Cardinals Tuesday. It seems he does this almost nightly lately and, in fact, he has homered in each of the past four games, all at night.
Edmundo Sosa had two hits Tuesday, one of them a double and drove in a run. He never had done any of these things in the major leagues as a spot player for the Cardinals. Kept on the roster because he was out of options, for one reason, Sosa made only his fourth start in the eighth week of the season.
He opened at shortstop for injured Paul DeJong (rib fracture) and there’s a good chance he’ll replicate that role on Wednesday night. Sosa’s single helped set up a two-run second inning and his double knocked in another in the third inning of a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates before the largest paid home crowd of the season at 14,005,
