The Cardinals' offense at that point mounted a two-out rally in the eighth inning to add pad to a one-run lead. 

Randal Grichuk and Jose Martinez struck out to start the inning, however Matt Carpenter and Tommy Pham stepped consecutive strolls. Paul DeJong drove both in with a solitary that scarcely arrived on the reasonable side of the a respectable starting point line, giving the Cardinals no less than eight keeps running for the 6th straight diversion. 

Half of those eight runs came in the second inning. Jedd Gyorko began the inning by drawing a stroll from Braves' starter Mike Foltynewicz, who strolled four hitters intwo and 66% innings - his most brief excursion since April 11. Kolten Wong at that point hit a twofold off the divider in focus field to score Gyorko. 

Wong scored on a Grichuk single that skiped through the hole into right field. Wainwright moved Grichuk to second with a fruitful yield hit, and Grichuk got back home on a twofold off the bat of Carpenter. After Pham drew a walk, DeJong hit his very own twofold, scoring Carpenter. 

The accompanying inning, the Cardinals cushioned their lead. After Gyorko flew out to start the inning, Wong got on base when he was hit by a Foltynewicz pitch. Wong scored when Grichuk hit his initially triple of the season over the head of previous Cardinal Matt Adams and into the left field corner. 

Grichuk got back home when pitcher Adam Wainwright recorded his eleventh RBI of the season on a bloop single that arrived in shallow focus. The Braves expelled Foltynewicz for reliever Luke Jackson after Tommy Pham hit a twofold two hitters later, and that finished the Cardinals' scoring - for a few innings. 

In the mean time, Wainwright permitted two base sprinters in both the first and second innings however didn't permit a keep running in either, thanks in extensive part to a twofold play he incited in every inning. 

In the third, Wainwright wound up in a harder spot. He surrendered a hit to Foltynewicz, simply his second in 33 at bats this season, and afterward enabled a solitary to Ender Inciarte. He strolled the following player, Brandon Philips, to stack the bases without any outs. 

That brought Freddie Freeman, with his .315 batting normal and 21 homers on the season, to the plate. Wainwright inspired Freeman to ground to Carpenter at a respectable starting point. Woodworker tossed to DeJong at second, and DeJong hurled the ball back to Wainwright to finish the play at first. 

Twofold play. 

One Braves run scored on the play, and Wainwright figured out how to get away from the inning with no further harm by getting Nick Markakis to fly out to end the inning. 

Subsequent to escaping the bases-stacked stick, Wainwright seemed to settle in. He resigned every one of the six hitters he confronted in the fourth and fifth innings and, having tossed 77 pitches through five edges, he went to the plate to arrive in a desperate predicament of the fifth. 

However when the 6th inning started it was reliever Brett Cecil, not Wainwright, on the hill. 

The Braves jumped on Cecil for four runs, slicing the Cardinals' prompt one. Most of the harm was finished by second baseman Ozzie Albies, who hit his second grand slam of the season an expected 386 feet into the seats in left field. 

After the grand slam, the Cardinals swung to John Brebbia to complete the inning. He did as such by getting Dansby Swanson to ground out, at that point he recorded the initial two outs of the seventh. With Inciarte on base, Freeman went to the plate at the end of the day, this time with an opportunity to give the Braves the lead. 

The Cardinals countered with lefty reliever Zach Duke. Entering Friday, Freeman had five hits in six profession at bats against Duke. 

Duke struck him out. 

Duke at that point conveyed a one-two-three eighth, and after DeJong included the two protection keeps running in the base of the inning, Matt Bowman conveyed a one-two-three ninth inning for his second spare of the season.