Nolan Arenado drove in Masyn Winn with two outs in the ninth inning on Wednesday night, giving the St. Louis Cardinals a 4-3 walk-off win against the San Diego Padres.
“I shortened up. I didn’t try to do too much there,” Arenado said. “I got rewarded for that, so that was nice.”
Winn got on base with a single off Robert Suarez (8-2), who was pitching the ninth inning. Rookie Victor Scott II kept the inning going by singling Winn to second base. Arenado, who has had 13 hits in the last 11 games, then singled to center. This was his 11th career walk-off RBI and his third with St. Louis.
“At the end of the day, it started with Masyn,” Arenado said. “And Victor. Those guys just had great at-bats. It’s about time I picked up the slack a little bit. These young guys did such a great job today.”
Ryan Helsley (6-4) pitched one inning to get the win.
San Diego’s Luis Arraez, who had three hits on Tuesday, hit two doubles and two singles in five at-bats. It was his major league-leading sixth four-hit game this season. Manny Machado added two hits and an RBI, and he is now hitting .357 (10 for 28) in his last seven games.
Paul Goldschmidt hit three singles and drove in a run for St. Louis and now has seven hits in 11 at-bats in the series.
“He’s looking better in each at-bat,” St. Louis manager Oliver Marmol said about Goldschmidt. “That’s highly encouraging as well.”
Helsley gave up a leadoff double to Arraez, who was then replaced by a pinch runner. Tyler Wade advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt, but Helsley struck out Jake Cronenworth and Machado to keep the game tied.
