Matt Carpenter hit a ball to the fence.
Had it been a chain-link fence, outfielder Michael Bourn could’ve scaled it and reached for the ball, retrieving it with the edge of his glove.
Perhaps, if there was a swimming pool just beyond the wall, Bourn might have felt more enticed.
As it was, he ran up the wall, felt the ball hit his glove and watched it fall out.
The Cardinals went up 2-1 in the top of the eighth.
The Indians had taken the lead with a solo home run from Michael Brantley in the bottom of the sixth.
He’d hit it a just a little bit further than Carpenter.
Otherwise, the pitchers did well enough.
Like yesterday.
Cleveland’s Lonnie Chisenhall doubled off Seth Maness with two outs in the eighth. The pitcher was replaced by Cardinal closer Trevor Rosenthal.
Nick Swisher launched a ball just foul.
But it was 0-2 in two blinks.
He took a ball, and stared at the pitcher sixty feet away.
And swung through strike three.
In the ninth, Cardinal Kolten Wong singled, and stepped away from the bag.
Yadier Molina added another base hit, sending Wong to third.
Then Jason Heyward hit into a double play to end the top of the ninth.
Next, the Indians’ Bourn hit a ball into the glove of Mark Reynolds, and pinch hitter David Murphy singled.
There was one away in the bottom of the ninth.
Rosenthal threw too high, and then too low, and high again.
Zach Walters took.
Then he struck out.
The next batter did, too.
St. Louis won the game, and the series, 2-1.
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