Game 1: Browns 5, Cardinals 2
WP: Shocker (1-0)
LP: C Martinez (0-1)
Game 2: Browns 2, Cardinals 1 (15 innings)
WP: Davis (1-0)
LP: Cecil (0-1)
Save: Vangilder (1)
Game 3: Cardinals 14, Browns 7
WP: Wacha (1-0)
LP: Wingard (0-1)
HR: Grichuk (1), DeJong (1), Wong (1), Sisler (1)
Game 4: Browns 4, Cardinals 0
WP: Shocker (2-0)
LP: Wainwright (0-1)
Game 5: Cardinals 10, Browns 9
WP: Rosenthal (1-0)
LP: Wingard (0-2)
Save: Oh (1)
Game 6: Cardinals 1, Browns 0
WP: Nicosia (1-0)
LP: Vangilder (0-1)
Game 7: Browns 11, Cardinals 6
WP: Shocker (3-0)
LP: C Martinez (0-2)
HR: Sisler (2), Tobin (1)
This battle of St. Louis swung from pitchers duels to slugfests.
Urban Shocker scattered six hits while going the distance in the opener at Busch Stadium III. Wally Gerber double in two runs in the second inning to stake Shocker to the lead, and Marty McManus scored a pair of runs for the Browns.
The Browns also took Game 2, but it took 15 innings. McManus scored the go-ahead run in the top of the 15th on a two-out error by Kolten Wong, and Elam Vangilder stranded the tying run at third in the bottom of the inning. Lance Lynn threw seven scoreless innings for a no-decision, allowing just four hits.
The series shifted to 1924's Sportsman's Park, and the Cardinals drove Ernie Wingard from Game Three in the first inning. Randall Grichuk's three-run homer capped a five-run outburst. The Browns whittled away at the lead, but their bullpen surrendered seven runs in the final four innings, including a three-run homer by Paul DeJong in the ninth.
Shocker returned for Game Four and was masterful. The only hit the Cardinals got off the spitballer was a second-inning single by Stephen Piscotty. Shocker walked two and struck out eight, and also tripled and scored the first run of the game.
The Browns blasted Cardinals ace Carlos Martinez from the mound in the first inning in Game Five; Martinez didn't record an out as the Browns peppered him for six runs on a walk, two singles and three doubles. But the Cardinals avoided elimination with seven runs in the final three innings, tagging Wingard, who worked the ninth, with the 10-9 loss.
The series reverted to 2017 and Busch III, and Lynn dueled Dixie Davis. Each threw eight scoreless innings before leaving for pinch hitters. Jose Martinez plated the only run of the game in the bottom of the ninth with a single that bought in Grichuk.
Game Seven rematched Game One's starters: Shocker, working for the second time on short rest, against Martinez, getting the ball on two days rest after failing to record an out in Game Five. Martinez again failed to retire a hitter, although this time there was an error involved. George Sisler homered off Martinez, and Jack Tobin capped the eight-run first with a three-run homer off Matt Bowman. The Cards plated four unearned runs in the second, but Shocker recovered to toss seven innings, allowing just one earned run, before turning the final two innings over to Vangilder, who allowed an unearned run but nailed down the game and the series.
Player of the Series: Urban Shocker.
Pitcher use note: Avoid using Vangilder in Game 1 of Round 2.
Projected rotation: Danforth-Wingard-Shocker-Davis-(Danforth?)-(Wingard)-(Shocker)
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