Cubs vs. Cardinals Game Highlights (5/21/21) | MLB Highlights

Cardinals take the field and Carlos Martinez going tonight for St. Louis and it's been a while since he was a starter pitching against the Chicago Cubs. Carlos Martinez ready to work face Jack Peterson and the first pitch is drilled in the air out towards right center field. That's well struck on its way and gone. Jack Peterson a lead off Homer first pitch in the game is second of the year and the Cubs jump out one nothing. Mr. Mustache with the home run. We were just talking some time ago before we came on here about Jack Peterson and how hard he's been hitting the ball and he hasn't been getting any lift. It's been a lot of line drives on a hard ground balls. And sooner or later you knew the power is going to come because that's what he has done throughout his big league career and it comes on the very first pitch of the game a two seam barrel finder from Carlos Martinez and Jack Peterson puts the Cubs up one. The pitcher Kyle Hendricks ready to go to work. Cardinals are really high on this fine young prospect. There's a swing and a miss goes upstairs struck him out. Kyle got that hits you know the swing and miss on that earlier in the at bat and he said all right if you're going to attack it up there I'm not going to worry about trying to freeze you. I'm going to throw it up above the barrel. Balls running back just can't get to it when it's up above the belt like that. Edmundo Sosa batting two fifty slowly hit tough play bare handed Sosa on his way to second base single in an air by David Bote. I wasn't sure he didn't because of that stumble. I thought he actually fouled the ball off of his foot. But here it is. And apparently not off of his foot although maybe the Cubs think that it was and there's the bare handed throw and it was just a wild throw way wide of Rizzo who had no chance to make that play on her second. Let me go to the top of the order for Tommy Edmund Edmund with a fly ball and shallow center Horner going out half coming in the second base. It hung up there for it. Will you take any gifts you are given in the Cardinals have been given two of them in this inning. This should be an out. This is in the air too long. Notice Tommy Edmund running the ball out from the very beginning was closer to him than it was to Horner and he finally kind of gets close to the ball probably could have caught it anyway but goes as a double as it should. And the Cardinals tie it. So it's now David Bote. Grounded back to Martinez over one Rizzo hit by a pitch by his walked half hit by a pitch and they're all loaded up and this being done with two outs and a one Oh. Makes the play bottom of any number four Paul Goldschmidt lined out to left his first time Goldschmidt rips that one to center half is back back some more leaps and makes the grab being tracking it tracking it and ultimately catching it. And on third one away here the top half of the fifth inning Baldo strikes to John. In the air that one blasted out towards center going back is Bader there to make the catch and tag in from third coming in to score. Nico Horner Jack Peterson has knocked in both runs tonight. The Cubs lead it. It's two one. So one out two runners on let's see if Bote can do some damage here with two men on to pitch to David Bote put in play Arnotto steps on the bag across this guy is something else. We go to the bottom of the sixth inning Cardinals bad Cubs lead to the one two down bags loaded for Harrison Bader Brown softly hit Baez throws him out and that is the inning now Horner in scoring position at second in a tie game in the seventh inning. It's in the dirt and it gets past Molina racing for third throw goes into left get up and here he comes Horner coming in and he'll score Willie Harris second Nico three two on a pitch that got past Molina and then an error on the catcher as Chris Bryant steps in and the one to Brian drives one in the air to right center field might be a gap or that ball is going to be back bouncing off the wall and deep right center field. Peterson racing around third heading home he will score and the Cubs lead four to two comes in great position now to get out of that jam in the bottom of the six Hendricks does his thing and now the offense responds with a little help from the Cardinals talked all year long about Chris Bryant being able to handle the fastball. Here's a little ninety nine I got it. No worries Parson to the wall and right center Dylan Carlson is up Edmond the runner at first. Sosa is the runner at third. Carlson base hit in the right. And here comes Goldie. It's a one run game two outs Nance swinging a grounder to third Bote to second and they get out of it with a one run lead and so guard against Webb with the bases loaded the infield drawn in. Wacked into left field that's a base hit Williams will pick it up fire it in a run comes in to score so guard in RBI single and it's five three. Off the inside edge he walked him and that'll force it a run payoff pitch and he walked him and another run will come in and it's seven three. Well this Cardinal then kind of lived up to the billing in terms of the walks being an issue. That's hit hard fair ball down the first base line it'll hit right off the sidewall. So guard in to score. Bryant comes around stopping at third as Contreras down he's racing home throw tag out the base hit out of the left center field and in to score his Rizzo Baez an RBI knock and it is ten three. What a night for the Cubs. Hit hard and that's a fair ball past Arenado that's off the sidewall. Baez is in behind him is half throw to second tag and out. And Bodie cut down at second base but two more come in and the Cubs break things open.