TORONTO — In the first half of the season, the Cardinals showed they could win in a variety of ways, but best of all when they got a stout start from a pitcher and some muscle from the lineup.
As the second half opens, getting neither is one sure way to lose, and big.
The Toronto Blue Jays greeted their interleague visitors with a continued show of force, building off a series of thunderous victories in Boston for a 10-3 victory Tuesday night at Rogers Centre. The Cardinals inched and clawed their back from a difficult start to tie the game, only to see it vaporized by George Springer’s grand slam. The Blue Jays’ leadoff hitter connected in the sixth inning for his seventh career grand slam to turn what was a tie game at the start of the inning into a blowout.
