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McCarthy returns to hill to face Cards
Apr 3, 2013 - 1:50 PMVideo
McCarthy will also be making his National League debut after spending his first seven seasons in the American League, including stints with the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics. He spent the last two years with the A's, but saw his 2012 campaign end after being struck on the right side of the head on Sept. 5 versus the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
The right-hander suffered an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and a skull fracture, ending his season after 18 starts with an 8-6 record and 3.24 earned run average. McCarthy underwent surgery that night and was discharged six days later.
The 29-year-old, who had also battled a shoulder injury last season, signed a two-year deal with the Diamondbacks this offseason and will face the Cardinals for the first time in his career.
Opposing McCarhty will be right-hander Lance Lynn, who won 18 games for the Cardinals a season ago but struggled following the All-Star break.
Lynn went 11-4 with a 3.41 ERA in 17 outings in the first half, but his ERA rose to 4.32 over 18 second-half appearances, including 12 starts. He still went 7-3 in that span, though he was taken out of the rotation for two weeks from late August until early September.
St. Louis is hoping that last year's experience will help Lynn stay strong all season and he gets his 2013 campaign started with his fourth career appearance versus the Diamondbacks. Only one of those previous meetings was a start and Lynn picked up a victory in that outing on May 7 in Arizona with five scoreless innings. The 25-year-old allowed three hits and four walks while striking out seven and the outing was the final one of a season-opening six- start winning streak.
Lynn will hope to get another winning streak started and pitch the Cardinals to a second victory in a row after they took Tuesday's meeting with the Diamondbacks 6-1.
St. Louis got three home runs in the victory, including Matt Holliday's go- ahead two-run shot in the sixth inning after he drove a low pitch from Arizona starter Trevor Cahill over the fence.
"He went down and golfed that ball out of the air," Cards manager Mike Matheny said. "Typically you're not going to get hurt when you're down in the zone like that, but Matt's got some exceptional ability."
Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia pitched 5 2/3 innings to get the victory, allowing just one run on two hits. However, he also walked four batters, including three straight with two outs in the sixth inning to load the bases. Matheny then opted to go with reliever Edward Mujica, who struck out a pinch- hitting Jason Kubel to end the frame.
but also walked four batters and needed 97 pitches.
Miguel Montero hit a second-inning solo homer for the Diamondbacks, who had only three hits one day after logging 15 in a 6-2 series-opening win.
Cahill fanned seven and gave up three runs on five hits over 5 2/3 innings to take the loss, while reliever Heath Bell gave up a two-run homer to Jon Jay and a solo shot to Pete Kozma in the seventh inning of his Arizona debut.
"He didn't execute his pitches very well tonight," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said of Bell.
The D-backs dropped five of six games to the Cardinals last season.
- ST. LOUIS: 9
ARIZONA: 10
Final/16
Apr 4 3:16 AM - 302
roots - 278
roots - 259
roots - 254
roots - 220
roots - Martin Prado sacrifice fly out to right scored Cliff Pennington with two outs. Runner on second and Aaron Hill due up.
Cardinals 9, Diamondbacks 9 Bot 12, 2 OutsApr 4 1:57 AM - 215
roots - Pete Kozma singled to left scored Yadier Molina with one out. On the play, Matt Adams advances to second. Runners on first and second and Daniel Descalso due up.
Cardinals 9, Diamondbacks 8 Top 12, 1 OutApr 4 1:47 AM - 196
roots - 191
roots - Aaron Hill singled to left scored Gerardo Parra. On the play, Martin Prado advances to second. Runners on first and second with one out and Miguel Montero due up.
Cardinals 8, Diamondbacks 8 Bot 8, 1 OutApr 4 12:40 AM - Yadier Molina lead-off Home Run (1) to left. Matt Adams due up.
Cardinals 8, Diamondbacks 7 Top 7, 0 OutsApr 4 12:08 AM - Martin Prado one-out, two-run Home Run (1) to left scored Eric Chavez. Aaron Hill due up.
Cardinals 7, Diamondbacks 7 Bot 6, 1 OutApr 4 12:02 AM - Matt Holliday singled to center scored Daniel Descalso. On the play, Matt Carpenter advances to second. Runners on first and second with two outs and Allen Craig due up.
Cardinals 7, Diamondbacks 5 Top 6, 2 OutsApr 3 11:55 PM - Daniel Descalso doubled to right scored Matt Adams and Pete Kozma. Runner on second with none out and Joe Kelly due up.
Cardinals 6, Diamondbacks 5 Top 6, 0 OutsApr 3 11:43 PM - Paul Goldschmidt one-out, two-run Home Run (1) to left scored Aaron Hill. Jason Kubel due up.
Cardinals 4, Diamondbacks 5 Bot 5, 1 OutApr 3 11:28 PM - Miguel Montero sacrifice fly out to center scored Martin Prado. On the play, Aaron Hill advances to third. Runner on third with one out and Paul Goldschmidt due up.
Cardinals 4, Diamondbacks 3 Bot 5, 1 OutApr 3 11:25 PM - Lance Lynn's wild pitch scored Gerardo Parra with none out. None on and Martin Prado at the plate.
Cardinals 4, Diamondbacks 2 Bot 5, 0 OutsApr 3 11:19 PM - Yadier Molina singled to center scored Matt Holliday and Allen Craig. Runner on first with two outs and Matt Adams due up.
Cardinals 4, Diamondbacks 1 Top 3, 2 OutsApr 3 10:31 PM - Allen Craig doubled to left scored Jon Jay. On the play, Matt Holliday advances to third. Runners on second and third with two outs and Yadier Molina due up.
Cardinals 2, Diamondbacks 1 Top 3, 2 OutsApr 3 10:30 PM - Jon Jay singled to short off a deflection by the pitcher scored Daniel Descalso, advances to second on Cliff Pennington's throwing error. Runner on second with one out and Matt Carpenter due up.
Cardinals 1, Diamondbacks 1 Top 3, 1 OutApr 3 10:28 PM - Gerardo Parra lead-off Home Run (1) to left. Martin Prado due up.
Cardinals 0, Diamondbacks 1 Bot 1, 0 OutsApr 3 9:50 PM - ST. LOUIS: 0
ARIZONA: 0
Top 1, 0 Outs
Apr 3 9:41 PM
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