ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis starter Matthew Liberatore left the Cardinals' game Thursday night against Kansas City because of fatigue.

Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said the concern factor was not high.

“He said he felt good, just out of sync with his mechanics,” Marmol said. “Wish we had a better answer, but it just wasn’t coming out. But no injury, no pain, said he actually felt really good going into that game, and just wasn’t synced up. So ran some tests on him during that game, once he came out, and everything came back looking pretty good.”

Liberatore left with no outs in the fifth inning after throwing 71 pitches. His final pitch was a 73.8-mph, ball-four curveball to Maikel Garcia, who eventually scored on a single by Salvador Perez to cap the scoring in Kansas City's 7-5 victo

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