PHOENIX — If the St. Louis Cardinals are going to continue rotating in a rookie or reliever as an understudy for the rotation during these long, consecutive stretches of games they’re going to need fewer short, complicated starts.
Or, to survive the run, they must score like they did Friday.
The Cardinals got a run on their first out of the game and set a pace Arizona could not match until eventually their pitching did in a 8-6 victory at Chase Field.
