ST. LOUIS — As Cardinals linchpins Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina march inexorably toward the all-time record for starts made by one major league battery, Paul Goldschmidt marches to. . . . well, we don’t exactly know yet.
Wainwright and Molina celebrated their 314th start, 10 shy of the Mickey Lolich-Bill Freehan record set with Detroit, with Wainwright blanking the San Diego Padres on two hits and fanning 10 in seven innings Tuesday night at Busch Stadium. That Wainwright would stymie the Padres here should be no surprise. He is 6-0 with a 1.64 earned run average against Padres at Busch and hasn’t given up a home run here to San Diego in 65 2/3 innings.
Goldschmidt bumped up to his hitting streak to 22 games with a third-inning double that knocked in the first Cardinals run before he scored the other on a sacrifice fly.
