MIAMI — So the Cardinals finally had a starter endure past the fifth inning Wednesday night. Staff ace Jack Flaherty gave up a leadoff hit to Miami’s Corey Dickerson but no other safeties in six innings covering 101 pitches.
Miami’s Pablo Lopez allowed only two hits — and also no runs — through 6 2/3 innings as the teams played a getaway game as if double-parked. With two outs in the seventh, though, Lopez walked hitless Matt Carpenter and Yadier Molina ripped a Lopez cutter over the left-field wall for his first homer of the season in the Cardinals’ 101st career game against the Marlins in Miami.
Possessors of the best record of any road team here, the Cardinals now have won 65 of those 101 games, including a series-sweeping 7-0 victory Wednesday night, credited to Flaherty, before a bipartisan gathering of 5,244. The Marlins had only three hits for the game.
