O's-Cards suspended in 6th inning, to resume Wed.
ST. LOUIS -- A pitching duel between right-handers Kyle Bradish and Lance Lynn ended without a conclusion Tuesday night at Busch Stadium, where the Orioles-Cardinals game was suspended with the score tied at 1 in the middle of the sixth inning due to severe weather in the area.
The contest will resume at 11:15 a.m. CT/12:15 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The regularly scheduled series finale will begin 30 minutes following the completion of the first game.
Fans with tickets for Wednesday’s game can attend both, with gates set to open at 10:45 a.m. CT. Those who had tickets to Tuesday’s contest will be sent an e-voucher for a future game, and that will arrive next week.
Lynn entered Tuesday 0-2 with a 7.36 ERA in three May starts, but he came through with one of his best starts of the season against the Orioles. The 37-year-old right-hander allowed only one unearned run over six innings, while Bradish yielded one run over five frames.
“He filled up the zone with the fastball, cutter and sinker and then he landed that curveball eight of nine times,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said of Lynn. “Overall, he did a really nice job of giving us a shot.”
Nolan Gorman gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead with a two-out RBI double in the second, then Baltimore’s Jorge Mateo tied the game with a two-out RBI double in the fifth.
Gorman’s error on a Kyle Stowers grounder with two outs in the fifth extended the inning and Baltimore made the Cardinals pay for the mistake.
St. Louis won the series opener on Monday night with a 6-3 victory over the O’s.
It was not immediately known who would be the first pitchers to take the mound for the resumption of the suspended game but the bullpens should be rested, with no pitching changes made on Tuesday.
The series finale will feature a matchup of Orioles left-hander John Means and Cardinals righty Kyle Gibson, who went 15-9 with a 4.73 ERA in 33 starts for Baltimore in 2023.