Taylor Walls hit a three-run homer with two outs in the 10th inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on Tuesday night.
Walls sent a 2-2 pitch from Drew VerHagen (3-1) into the right field seats. He has four hits in his last 26 at-bats.
St. Louis loaded the bases with no outs in the 10th, but scored just once for a 2-1 lead on Lars Nootbaar‘s sacrifice fly. Paul Goldschmidt was thrown out by center fielder Kevin Kiermaier attempting to score on Harrison Bader’s two-out single.
St. Louis’ Dakota Hudson gave up one run, two hits and one walk while striking out six over seven innings.
O’Neill returned after missing 18 games with a right shoulder injury and went 2 for 5. Goldschmidt walked in the first to extend his career-best on-base streak to 43 games.
RHP Jack Flaherty (right shoulder) will make his next rehab start with Triple-A Memphis on Friday. … OF Dylan Carlson (left hamstring) joined Memphis from Double-A Springfield.
Tampa Bay RHP Corey Kluber (2-2) is Tuesday night’s starter. The Cardinals had not announced their starter. 5:15 with the pregame and the first pitch at 6:10 on KIRX.
First place Milwaukee leads second place St. Louis by a half a game, third place Pittsburgh is 7 games out, fourth place Chicago is 9 1/2 out.