ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals’ Paul DeJong, who had fanned in two of his first three plate appearances Friday night, was allowed to stay in to face hard-throwing New York Yankees reliever Clay Holmes with two on and two out in the eighth inning of a game the Cardinals trailed by one run.
Holmes had held right-handed batters to a .159 average this season and left-handed-batting Brendan Donovan was available. But manager Oliver Marmol stayed with DeJong, who lined a double into the right-field corner to score Nolan Arenado and Tyler O’Neill to provide the margin in a 4-3 victory in which the Cardinals had just five hits.
Arenado had beaten out an infield hit and O’Neill had walked ahead of DeJong’s game-deciding hit.
