SEATTLE — Having built another lead as sturdy and permanent as a sandcastle, the Cardinals found themselves once again fighting against the tide to chase down what they had lost.
They finally got their arms and legs in sync to stay afloat.
Jack Flaherty bought the offense time with his first quality start of the season, and Nolan Gorman became a one-man, two-out tidal wave of production Sunday with a three-run homer. Gorman’s tie-breaking mash airlifted the Cardinals toward a 7-3 victory against Seattle at T-Mobile Park, rescuing them from the undertow of a misspent weekend beside Elliott Bay. The Cardinals have won only two series so far this season and have yet to win the first game of any series, but they again sidestepped a continental shelf in the standings by taking at least one game for the sixth time in seven series.
