After coming to within a game of .500 last night with a 4-2 win over the Reds, the Cardinals couldn’t finish the job. They jumped out to an early 2-0 lead thanks to Nolan Gorman and Thomas Saggese, but they couldn’t make those early runs stand up. The Reds rallied for three in the second inning to take the lead. In the third, Ivan Herrera tied the game with a sacrifice fly, but Cincinnati went back ahead with a two-run homer by Austin Hays.

The Cardinals drew closer in the seventh, making it 5-4, but the Reds got that run right back with a Ke’Bryan Hayes single and Matt McLain homered in the eighth to make it 7-4. St. Louis came up empty in the ninth. Let’s get into some takeaways.

Pallante struggles again

I was a little worried about this game with Andre Pallante starting, especially a

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