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BY KEVIN MCDERMOTT AND CHUCK RAASCH St. Louis Post-Dispatch

HIS SIGHTS WERE ON THE WHITE HOUSE Greitens’ résumé has been marred by revelations around his affair, but by how much?

Is the dream of “EricGreitensForPresident.com” over?

That Web address and others like it were reserved years ago by Eric Greitens, then an ambitious young Maryland Heights native who had never run for office but had excelled at everything else he’d ever tried.

By the time he won Missouri’s governorship in 2016 as a Republican at age

42, his almost ludicrously impressive résumé — Rhodes scholar, Navy SEAL, decorated combat veteran, national nonprofit founder, best-selling author — had already made him the subject of a book and a good bet for national office someday.

“When I first read his résumé, I thought, ‘My God,’” Ken Warren, political science professor at St. Louis University, told the Post-Dispatch in September 2016, as Greitens was headed See GREITENS • Page A9

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President Bill Clinton served two terms despite accusations of sexual misconduct and an impeachment.

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“This is not the end. I will walk again,” says a determined Tamara Collier, who grows frustrated last month as a technician tries to fix a control function on her new wheelchair at the Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis. Collier, 25, was doing laundry at her mother’s in St. Louis when she was hit by a stray bullet on Sept. 1. The bullet went through a door before hitting Collier in the neck, paralyzing her from the neck down.

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toward his November election victory that year. “He’s got an incredible résumé, an almost a too-good-to-be-true résumé.”

That résumé clearly has been marred by last week’s political bombshells: Greitens’ acknowledgment of an extramarital affair in 2015; his denial of allegations of invasion of privacy and of threatened blackmail in connection with that affair; the announcement of a criminal investigation.

But Warren and others say that if the sole element that Greitens has admitted to — having an affair — is all that the public ultimately believes, he could survive politically.

“It’s damaging for sure. Is it over? I don’t know,” Warren, whose personal politics lean Democratic, said last week. “People who have had affairs have survived, depending on how they’ve handled it. Given what we’ve gone through with (President Donald) Trump, I’m not sure it’s a deal-breaker.”

“If the statement he put out Wednesday night stands the test of time, he’ll survive this,” predicted former Missouri Republican Party Chairman John Hancock.

“Clearly, he’s done some real damage to his brand, but it’s way too early to write his political obituary.”

That said, an almost universal caveat among politicians and experts across the spectrum seems to be that, if evidence emerges backing up the related allegations, Greitens’ political survival would be virtually impossible in the #MeToo era.

“That’s what would change the game,” said Warren.

“Look at all the other stars that have gone down” to allegations of sexual harassment, abuse or assault.

He noted that one of those luminaries, ex-U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., was accused of participating in the taking of a sexually tinged photo of a sleeping woman without her consent.

One of the allegations against Greitens — which through his lawyer he has vehemently denied — is that he snapped a photo of his paramour without her consent while she was bound, blindfolded and partly undressed during a sexual encounter, and that he threatened to publicize the photo if she exposed their affair.

The woman, confessing to her then-husband in a 2015 conversation that she says she didn’t know he was recording, said Greitens later told her he had erased the photo and apologized. But under Missouri law, the mere taking of a nonconsensual photo involving nudity is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.

The alleged episode also raises the possibility of blackmail or extortion charges. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner announced Thursday her office will investigate.

Not everyone is convinced Greitens has a clear path out of the woods. And the fact that some of those doubters are fellow Republicans points to the problem the governor could have with his lack of allies among legislators he has long bashed as corrupt stewards of the Jefferson City swamp.

“Stick a fork in him,” tweeted state Sen. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, who has tangled with Greitens over, among other things, Greitens’ political attacks on him and other Republicans.

State Sen. Doug Libla, R-Poplar Bluff, said the outcome of the blackmail allegation, more than the affair, will likely determine Greitens’ political survival. But he added of the entire issue: “I don’t know how it can keep from hurting a person in public service.”

Greitens’ often-sanctimonious vilification of fellow Republicans, Libla said, may complicate his attempts to put it all behind him, because he doesn’t have the reservoir of support and goodwill that a sitting governor would normally be able to expect from his own party. “It’s the old proverb: You reap what you sow,” Libla said.

BIG AMBITIONS Ironically, this isn’t the first time that Greitens’ sunny political image has been tripped up by a surreptitious audio

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Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens delivers the annual State of the State address in Jefferson City on Wednesday.

recording.

In November 2015, as Greitens was seeking the Republican nomination for governor, primary opponent John Brunner secretly recorded a phone call in which the publicly friendly and likable Greitens angrily calls Brunner a “weasel,” “coward,” “corrupt” and a liar.

“Oh, John Brunner, oh my God, you are such a weasel!”

Greitens says in the conversation, an argument about campaign tactics revealed by the Post-Dispatch shortly after it happened.

Greitens added, in a whispering and ominous tone: “I can’t wait to see you in person, John. I want to look in your eyes.”

The episode showed a side of Greitens — cynical, calculating, vaguely threatening — that was utterly absent from the campaign persona of the earnest, smiling, bluejean-wearing candidate with the beautiful family.

There have been other hints of a Jekyll-and-Hyde aspect to Greitens. There was his Democrat-turned-Republican political history. There was his promise of political transparency before establishing an administration known for its unusual level of secrecy and stonewalling.

There was his vow of aboveboard fundraising, followed by the most blatant milking of “dark money” in modern Missouri history.

And there was EricGreitensForPresident.com, and the other reserved websites, which the Post-Dispatch unearthed during the campaign. They indicated a stunning level of political ambition for a candidate who, at the time, had never sought a single vote for any office.

That and other factors made it clear that Greitens had been looking beyond Missouri from the start. As presumptuous as that might sound, his sterling résumé and relentless drive for success — a recurring theme in his books — made those big ambitions more believable as his political career began.

After all, Greitens had been one of the stars of 2015’s best-selling book “Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home.” In it, the author, TIME magazine writer Joe Klein, dubbed Greitens’ achievements “stratospheric.”

That aura followed him during and after the campaign.

Though not a household name outside Missouri, Greitens’ donor base stretched coast to coast. He spent an unusual amount of time traveling to other states and to Washington. Fellow Republican officeholders around the

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He even had connections in Vice President Mike Pence’s office — via Pence’s chief of staff, Nick Ayers, who was a Greitens campaign adviser.

#METOO COMPLICATIONS Still, before the most recent controversy, Greitens’ national profile was nascent at best among national political activists and observers. In fact, many of those national figures are hearing about him now for the first time, in the context of headlines garnered by last week’s allegations.

“There has been talk about his potential and aspirations, but I don’t think the national profile had yet materialized,” said Nathan Gonzales, editor and publisher of Inside Elections, a national political publication.

How that beyond-Missouri persona takes shape, over the long term, “depends on how this story plays out,” Gonzales said. “Is this the end? Is there more?”

Frank Luntz, a veteran Republican consultant and pollster, is scheduled to appear at a Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas next month that Greitens has also been invited to address.

Luntz, who has advised presidential candidates back to independent Ross Perot in 1992, said he had heard little of Greitens before this week.

That’s another potential barrier for any Greitens aspirations beyond this controversy. His national profile was raised — in a negative way — amid the #MeToo movement involving sexual harassment and sexual assault, intertwining him in that discussion.

“The #MeToo movement, the entire national conversation about sexual harassment, assault, activity has changed” politics, Gonzales said. “It brings a new filter to how these stories are digested.”

“In most cases, politicians are cautious and reluctant to throw members of their own party overboard without making sure they have a full knowledge of what happened. And I think it is still pretty early in the story to know exactly what happened,” Gonzales said.

“But it is a fascinating dynamic in Missouri, where I think Greitens prides himself as being an outsider, which can make it challenging to navigate a controversy when you don’t have a lot of close friends, at least close political allies.”

BILL CLINTON’S EXAMPLE But there also is precedent for politicians succeeding and remaining in the highest office amid sexual indiscretion.

Bill Clinton was president for two terms in the 1990s, after his first campaign in 1992 was almost derailed by revelations from long-term paramour Gennifer Flowers.

Clinton recovered with a historic “60 Minutes” sit-down in which he vaguely admitted “causing pain” in his marriage while spouse Hillary Clinton sat with him.

The joint statement that Greitens and his wife, Sheena, released last week went further than that, admitting Greitens had been “unfaithful in our marriage.”

Greitens’ administration had been unusually inaccessible to the media even before last week. As of Friday, he hadn’t granted any question-and-answer sessions with reporters on the scandal or otherwise commented publicly beyond the released statement.

Instead, he has been making calls to donors and Republican legislators to plead his case.

“He started to lash at the liberal media and Democrats, and I cut him off and I said, ‘This is a legitimate news story,’” recounted one Republican lawmaker. “And I said, ‘With all due respect, your infidelity is very disappointing. And I’m disappointed and the caucus is disappointed, and I think it needs to be reported on.’”

Hancock, the former Missouri Republican chairman, said Greitens’ survival may depend in part on his ability to widen the audience beyond those donors and legislators.

“The one thing I would advise is to go out publicly and aggressively defend yourself, which means answering questions and making yourself available,” Hancock said.

“Hunkering down in a crisis is not a good idea.”

Kevin McDermott • 314-340-8268 @kevinmcdermott on Twitter kmcdermott@post-dispatch.com

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Houses under $300,000 in particularly short supply, agents say

Suburban women form key but mutable voting bloc Driven by practicality, they don’t neatly line up with one political camp

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Kevin and Lauren Fairlie check out a house for sale in Kirkwood this month with their daughter, Emma, 5. The 2,300-square-foot home on Wilton Lane sits on a one-acre plot and is listed for $559,900.

Levinson, president of the St. Louis Realtors trade group and a Realtor with Dielmann Sotheby’s International Realty.

Houses were on the market for an average of 10 days, and the median sale price of a home here was $190,000 in May — an 8 percent spike over the $176,000 average a year earlier, according to the Realtors organization. And buying a home requires a lot of hustle.

“We were willing to pay cash and couldn’t even get in to see houses,” said Cate Sauve, who had to scramble to find a new home after selling her Holly Hills

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ST. LOUIS • Homes around much of the

St. Louis region, especially those listed below $300,000, are being snapped up by eager house hunters in spite of mortgage interest rates that had ticked upward for months.

“Right now, we’re experiencing — and this is not only in our area, but nationwide — a real shortage of inventory. There are more buyers out there than sellers, and that has caused prices to rise,” said Marc

two-family house in February. She and her husband got five offers the first day it hit the market.

Perennially popular areas such as Webster Groves and Brentwood were out of reach for their $250,000 budget, and houses in more-affordable areas fell under contract before she could tour them.

They wanted a ranch house with an open floor plan, a walk-in shower and a fenced yard for their two Labradoodle dogs.

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tucked in one of the miles of strip malls that line Manchester Road among the shoulder-to-shoulder suburbs of west St. Louis County, Helen McCauley and her daughter Sara didn’t hesitate when asked recently about the coming political season.

“I don’t always vote the midterm elections, but this time I definitely will,” said Helen, whose politics lean left, with a focus on women’s issues.

“I don’t like the way the last elections turned out,” she said, as Sara, 18 and eager to vote for the first time, nodded. “A lot of women who don’t necessarily vote every election are more energized to vote this time.”

In a nearby Lion’s Choice restaurant, sisters Jodie Green and Julie Siebert, eating with their klatch of giggling young children, expressed somewhat different views. They’re frustrated with what they see as the heavy hand of political correctness in the schools and a lack of work ethic in society.

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He kidnapped three of the women, forcing them to drive to an ATM to withdraw cash, they said.

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In the six months since U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen announced the existence of the list, roughly 15 people on it have had their names removed because they have been charged with crimes, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanette Graviss.

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY > The ZIP code areas with the highest median prices in the first quarter of 2018 were: 63124 (Ladue area): $885,000 63005 (Chesterfield, Clarkson Valley area): $590,000 63127 (Sunset Hills area): $562,750 63049 (far southwest St. Louis County): $459,200 63038 (Wildwood area): $447,500

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They found such a house in the Mehlville area and made one of the 18 offers its owners received after one day, she said. They ended up paying about $15,000 above the $214,000 asking price. Sauve, 66, thinks the seller accepted their offer because it was all cash and they waived an appraisal.

“I was getting frantic,” she said, a sentiment echoed by other buyers frustrated by a competitive housing market.

Brad Elsner, a Realtor with Keller Williams Realty St. Louis who specializes in mid-St. Louis County areas such as Des Peres and Kirkwood, said buyers looking to pay under $300,000 are having an especially tough time finding a house.

And as has long been the case, buyers opt to move farther west, where their budget can yield a bigger house, when they get priced out parts of St. Louis County, he said.

Julie Moran, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Gundaker who specializes in St. Charles County, said houses there below $225,000 are in particularly short supply.

“I do think people are still cash poor and they want to move into something that already has quartz as opposed to granite, and Shaker-style cabinets,” she said. “They want the grays and Joanna Gaines (a designer and former co-host on a popular HGTV program) look as opposed to heavy, dark gold and jewel tones. They want it current with the trends.”

She’s also seeing more contracts fall apart when prospective buyers, who have often offered above asking price, ask for repairs following an inspection and are rebuffed by sellers who often have multiple offers.

And some would-be sellers are reluctant to put their homes on the market because of the difficulty in finding and buying another house, Moran said.

In the Metro East, houses near Scott Air Force base listed between $100,000 and $350,000 usually sell within seven days, said Cheryl Johnson, managing broker and owner of Johnson Realty. But it’s a far different market in the more affluent Edwardsville, where houses above $600,000 aren’t selling because buyers fear already-high property taxes will increase as state elections loom, she said.

“I’m not seeing moveup buyers staying in the state,” Johnson said.

“They’re fleeing.”

Freddie Mac reported Thursday that after a rapid increase through most of the spring, mortgage rates had declined in five of the past six weeks — the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 4.52 percent, down from 4.66 percent on May 24, but still above the 3.95 percent seen at the start of this year.

ST. LOUIS AREA HOUSING TRENDS

> ZIP codes with the biggest jump in median sales price over last year were: 63121 (Normandy area): 72 percent, $43,000 63127 (Sunset Hills area): 68 percent, $562,750 63042 (Hazelwood area): 60.2 percent, $100,950 63135 (Ferguson area): 49.5 percent, $44,841 63137 (Riverview area): 47.3 percent, $37,500 ST. LOUIS

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Real estate agent Gary Wells (right) talks at an open house in Kirkwood this month with Lauren and Kevin Fairlie and their 5-year-old daughter, Emma. The Fairlies live in the Shaw neighborhood and are looking to move.

“Starting in early June, it felt like a noticeable slowdown when interest rates took a jump,” said Christopher Thiemet, a broker and salesman with Circa Properties, who specializes in selling properties in south St. Louis.

Before that, he said he had seen some of the most aggressive buyer activity in his 15 years in real estate, with most listings selling the first weekend on the market — one garnered 21 offers.

But he said the market remains strong, and popular areas include neighborhoods around Tower Grove Park, St. Louis Hills, Southampton, Lindenwood Park and Clifton Heights.

North St. Louis County is seeing gains in its housing market after struggling to rebound as quickly as other parts of the region from the housing crash, and after drops in property value largely attributed to the unrest following the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown.

In the ZIP code area that largely covers Ferguson, the news is a mixed bag. Property values were up about 50 percent in the first quarter of this year over last year, according to MLS figures. But houses only sold for a median price of $44,841 with an average of 72 days on the market.

“It’s slowly coming back. But what’s hampering it is the availability of mortgages,” said Mark Ottinger, a broker with Alexander Realty, of the North County housing market.

In the area from Pagedale east to Spanish Lake, and west into parts of Ferguson and Berkeley and north to Black Jack, more than half the mortgages made from 2004 to 2007 were subprime.

Three-bedroom, twobath homes in Hazelwood and Florissant listed between $135,000 and $149,000 are in short supply and sell fast, said Kevin Vaughn, a Realtor with

> ZIP codes with the highest median prices in the first quarter of 2018 were: 63108 (Central West End area): $279,000 63104 (Lafayette Square area): $240,000 63110 (Forest Park Southeast, Shaw, the Hill areas): $236,000 63105 (area west of Forest Park): $231,000 63101 (downtown): $229,950 > ZIP codes with the biggest jump in median sales price over last year were: 63143 (Ellendale area): 85 percent, $198,000 63113 (Kingsway East, the Ville areas): 53.2 percent, $18,600 63115 (Penrose, Greater Ville areas): 33.3 percent, $14,000 63110 (Forest Park Southeast, Shaw, the Hill areas): 24.2 percent, $236,000 63102 (downtown, including around Busch Stadium): 17.9 percent, $125,000

This house in the 1400 block of Wilton Lane in Kirkwood is listed for $559,900. Real estate agents say prospective buyers looking for homes under $300,000 are having a hard time finding houses.

Coldwell Banker Gundaker.

He said waiting a few hours to decide whether to make an offer can mean losing a house in that price range.

Mortgage applications nationwide decreased half a percent for the week ending June 29 of this year from one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

First-time buyers represented 46 percent of Freddie Mac’s purchased loans in the first quarter of this year, the biggest portion in recent history and up from 42 percent a year ago, the agency said.

And more millennials are expected to buy houses as they reach the age of settling down, getting married and starting a family, according to Freddie Mac. “I feel sorry for people looking in my price range, I really do,” said Sauve, who is staying put in her recently purchased home in south St. Louis County.

“It’s hard out there.”

Leah Thorsen • 314-340-8320 @leahthorsen on Twitter lthorsen@post-dispatch.com

SOURCE: MLS reports

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PROPOSITION B: MINIMUM WAGE

Unions, allies hope support stays high After Prop A victory, focus shifts to raising pay with November ballot issue

BY JACK SUNTRUP St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY • When a coalition of union members and their allies defeated the state’s “right to work” law last month, another group was wondering whether the same working-class enthusiasm would materialize in November, when voters will be asked to raise the state’s minimum wage.

“We are hopeful that voters in all parts of the state are going to support raising the minimum wage,” said Tony Wyche, spokesman for Raise Up Missouri, the group pushing Proposition B, which would raise Missouri’s minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2023.

Labor leaders and other social activists in Missouri are focusing on the issue this November — and proponents are hoping to generate the same enthusiasm that opponents of Proposition A demonstrated in August, when voters drubbed

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As Resource Management puts end to single-stream pickup, municipalities scramble for alternatives

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The future of curbside recycling pickup is in question around the St. Louis area following the decision of a major processing center to stop accepting residential recycling.

Resource Management recently informed its customers that it will stop accepting single-stream recyclables as of Oct. 31, and Kirkwood became the first local city to say it will suspend curbside recycling the week before the cutoff — it couldn’t find another processor to accept its mixed recyclables.

It has been a trying summer for recycling programs throughout the U.S. after China set much stricter policies in May for contamination allowed in the streams of mixed paper brought into the country to be recycled.

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WASHINGTON • John Mc-

Cain’s daughter and two former presidents led a public rebuke of President Donald Trump’s divisive politics at the late senator’s memorial service Saturday in a call for a return to civility among the nation’s leaders.

The nearly three-hour service at the Washington National Cathedral was a remarkable show of defiance against a president McCain openly defied in life as the antithesis of

the American spirit of service to something greater than any individual.

Standing near McCain’s flag-draped casket and with Trump’s daughter in the audience, Meghan McCain delivered a broadside against the uninvited president without mentioning his name.

“We gather here to mourn the passing of American greatness — the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he See MCCAIN • Page A11

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LouFest organizers say ‘everything is good’; contractors reportedly pull out

BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LouFest is good to go for 2018 and load-in will begin in Forest Park on Tuesday for the Sept. 8-9 festival, event organizers say. This is despite a St. Louis Public Radio story Friday stating key contractors have pulled out of the festival.

“It’s not true,” the Listen Live Entertainment team replied to the PostDispatch in response to contractors pulling out. “Everything is good.

We’re on track and on schedule to have another great LouFest.”

LouFest also tweeted that everything was fine.

Listen Live produces LouFest, which will feature Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters, Modest Mouse, the Head and the Heart, Kacey Musgraves, Gary Clark Jr., TPain, Michael McDonald and more. A total of 41 acts are performing, a record for LouFest.

Logic Systems Sound and Lighting, based out of Valley Park, has pulled out of LouFest, owner Chip Self confirmed. He called Friday’s decision difficult, and hopes it won’t impact

the festival rolling out successfully.

“Nobody is happy about this, and nobody wants attention over this,” he says. “But nobody wants to be stuck holding the bill. And I don’t want to see anybody else get screwed.”

Self said his company, which he has operated for over three decades, has worked with LouFest several years in the past and “we were contracted to do the work again, and that’s not happening anymore. I can’t speak for the other contractors, but I know we were not the only one.”

Self said Listen Live didn’t fulfill its end of the contract, not making the necessary deposits. “We’re not trying to be the heavy. I know everyone has tried really hard to make this happen,” he said. “But at the end of the day, employees have to be paid, subcontractors have to be paid, and deadlines have to be met. It’s business. These are all professionals who do this for a living. This is how they feed their families.”

Self said he has documents showing everything he has said regarding LouFest is true, though he couldn’t release them to the Post-Dispatch.

Self said load-in was to have begun

Wednesday; Listen Live said trailers, fencing, tents and more are on the festival grounds now.

Asked if the situation could still be worked out and Logic Systems provide its services to LouFest, Self said, “Anything is possible. But we’re not the only company in the world who do what we do. They can get somebody else to do the work. They might be able to pull something off. For the sake of the St. Louis entertainment community, I hope they are.”

Green2Go Rental Power & Light is said to have pulled out as well, though a call to the company Friday night was not returned.

Listen Live says it does not discuss its relationships with its contractors.

Earlier this summer, LouFest fans voiced annoyance with the festival as it released its lineup at least a month later than usual. The daily grid was released Saturday, with a tweet from the LouFest account apologizing for the delay.

LouFest drew 60,000 concertgoers in 2017 with headliners Snoop Dogg, Weezer and Run the Jewels.

Listen Live’s majority partner and owner is Mike Van Hee.

LAW & ORDER JEFFERSON COUNTY > Two motorcyclists killed in crash • Two people are dead after the motorcycle they were riding on crashed into a minivan Friday evening on Highway 30 just south of High Ridge.

The Missouri Highway Patrol pronounced Pevely resident Trae Rollhause, 25, and his passenger, Shyann Bellagamba, 24, of House Springs, dead at the scene.

The were traveling eastbound on Highway 30 around 6:40 p.m. Friday when the Suzuki motorcycle they were riding crashed into a minivan turning left from westbound Highway 30 onto Carol Park road.

The driver of the minivan was not injured.

ST. LOUIS > Victim in critical condition after shooting • Homicide detectives were called to a shooting scene Saturday in the 4400 block of Athlone Avenue in the O’Fallon neighborhood.

Around 10:40 a.m., police reported a man shot in the chest in critical and unstable condition. No other details were available.

KANSAS CITY > Ex-officer gets prison sentence • A former Jackson County detention officer has been sentenced to federal prison for smuggling contraband cellphones and other items to inmates in the jail.

Andre Lamonte Dickerson, 27, of Kansas City, was sentenced Friday to one year and four months in federal prison.

He pleaded guilty in April to two counts of using a telephone with the intent to further illegal activity.

In his plea, Dickerson admitted that he took a $500 bribe to take the phones and cigarettes into the jail.

“Every hauler, every municipality has been on my phone in the last 10 days. …

I need two to three more weeks to come up with a viable solution.

I feel confident we will, but it’s not going to be a cheap one.”

Brent Batliner, general manager of the Republic Services processing center for recyclables

Single-stream recycling may be root of problem, expert says RECYCLING • FROM A1

With the top destination for the material shut off virtually overnight, American recyclers suddenly had to sell mixed paper at steep losses, initially losing around $50 or $60 a ton, before prices climbed to less severe — but still negative — levels, more recently.

The decision from Resource Management to halt its singlestream recycling has had a ripple effect, sending its municipal customers scrambling to find other ways to affordably process their materials.

That has meant placing calls to Republic Services, a Phoenix-based waste company that operates the St. Louis region’s other major processing center for recyclables in Hazelwood.

“Every hauler, every municipality has been on my phone in the last 10 days,” said Brent Batliner, the facility’s general manager, explaining that the list of current Resource Management customers he has heard from includes Kirkwood, Brentwood, Maplewood and O’Fallon, Mo. “Every one of them has contacted us looking for options.”

But the sheer volume of recycling from those communities cannot get seamlessly pushed over to Republic, putting Batliner in a bind, too. He says the company is evaluating its own options “to find a way to physically move” or divert the product.

“There’s 6,800 tons per month is what will be at risk come November,” Batliner said.

“It’s a major undertaking to move this around to plants that already exist.”

He warned that a solution is unlikely to come cheap, but hopes that costs will only be a short-term issue as commodity values rebound.

“I need two to three more weeks to come up with a viable solution,” Batliner said. “I feel confident we will, but it’s not going to be a cheap one.”

COSTS ARE CLIMBING Recycling-processing costs already had been climbing. Resource Management recently started charging Kirkwood $35 per ton for single-stream material dropped off at its facility, more than doubling the previous $15 rate the city had paid.

Kirkwood said it plans to retrofit the Francis Scheidegger Recycling Depository, which opened in the early 1970s, on South Taylor Avenue to accept separated recyclables such as glass, aluminum, tin, certain plastics and paper.

O’Fallon, Mo., also is figuring out its next steps, and the City Council discussed it at a work session Aug. 23.

The city said it had been receiving $6.50 per ton of recyclable material — but in July, O’Fallon began being charged the $35-per-ton fee to drop off the material at Resource Management.

And now it must decide what to do when Resource Management stops taking its recyclables, and could be charged even

PHOTOS BY J.B. FORBES • jforbes @post-dispatch.com

Trash haulers dump their loads inside the collection area Monday at St. Peters Recycle City. Technician Brad Allen operates the front loader that moves the trash into waiting trucks headed for landfills. Loads of recyclable waste are dumped in another area.

more.

Jim Wenzara, the city’s environmental services superintendent, told the council that he contacted Republic, which estimated the city could have to pay between $85 and $90 a ton, although that number could change.

“That’s what it would take to pay to do recycling exactly the way we do it today,” he told the council. The city is going to evaluate what can be done, and whether it can continue to offer curbside recycling, which about a third of its residents use.

Until July, the city brought in about $100,000 a year from Resource Management, revenue that helped fund its recycling program, Wenzara said.

Now the city could have to pay $630,000, he said.

St. Louis County contracts with four private haulers for single-stream recycling in its unincorporated areas — three take recyclables to Resource Management, and the fourth hauler is Republic, said Kathrina Donegan, an environmental manager at the county’s public health department.

“I think the haulers will find a method to continue to recycle,” she said.

Other cities — including University City, which uses Republic — won’t be affected. St. Louis contracts with Waste Management, although changing world economics have affected costs, said Todd Waelterman, the city’s director of operations.

In 2010, Waste Management paid the city about $25 a ton for recyclables. But the last few years, that role has reversed and the city has paid it $16 a ton to take them, he said. Still, the city pays about $35 a ton to dispose

of solid waste, meaning that recycling saves it money.

St. Peters has run its own recycling processing center for more than 20 years, said David Kuppler, its group manager of health and environmental services. He said other cities are asking questions about the program in wake of the Resource Management decision.

The city has a dual-stream, rather than single-stream, recycling. Residents sort their recyclables into two bags — one for paper and small pieces of cardboard, the other for containers such as laundry detergents, aluminum and glass.

“Liquid and paper don’t go well together,” he said, and the system St. Peters uses keeps the paper from getting wet. The city pays people to sort the recyclables, and bales the products to sell — something it can do because it has a low contamination rate.

Last year, the city brought in $780,000 from the sale of its recyclables. Residents pay just $2.31 a month for curbside recycling.

KEEPING IT CLEAN To some experts, the predicament in Kirkwood and other places nationwide highlights the pitfalls of single-stream recycling — the widely used system where consumers toss cans, paper, plastic, and all types of recyclable material into a single container, instead of sorting them.

Though intended to make recycling easier, some say the system has come with downsides.

Paper streams, for example, can get gummed up by plastic bags, or contaminated by food waste or broken glass.

“Moving towards single-

stream recycling is, I think, what got us into this problem,” said Elizabeth Royte, an author who has examined waste issues in books such as “Garbage Land” and “Bottlemania.”

“Contamination rates have been sky high. When we could send it all to China it didn’t matter so much, but now we have to deal with our own messes.”

Neil Seldman, who focuses on recycling issues for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, agrees about complications from the single-stream approach, but said there are ways for cities to make their systems more efficient, or look to other strategies for recycling and waste reduction.

He suggested investing in improvements would be warranted, noting that there is still strong demand for recycled paper that’s not in “sloppy form” — even in China.

“It’s not that the Chinese are not taking paper,” Seldman said.

“They’re just not taking it in its lowest form of value.”

A local group is working to reduce the contamination that occurs in single-stream recycling that makes many items in the bin unable to be recycled.

Items that shouldn’t go into a single-stream recycling bin, but often end up there, include garden hoses, plastic bags and holiday lights.

“Contamination in the bin is something we can all deal with, and is definitely a root cause of the issues we’re having,” said Jean Ponzi, a member of executive board of the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District and a regional recycling educator.

She’s also a member of a task force that’s part of the OneSTL Materials and Recycling Work-

ing Group, which is made up of local organizations and governments working to promote recycling and to spread the message that while recycling markets may be changing, recycling is not going away.

“We want to reassure people that we have a strong team of partners, including recycling companies, that are actively working toward solutions to keep recycling from being disrupted in the St. Louis region,” said Dave Berger, task force member and director of the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District, in a statement. “Our region has a diversity of recycling companies, so we’re optimistic that the recent loss of processing capacity from Resource Management will be overcome, and that our local recycling industry will remain strong.”

A key part of the task force’s work is to spread the word about what cannot be recycled — if bottles and containers are not empty and rinsed, or if pizza is stuck on a box, the rest of the paper in a recycling bin can become contaminated and unusable for recycling, according to the group.

Make sure recyclable items are empty. Give them a quick rinse, then get them dry as possible before putting in the bin, Ponzi said.

And if there’s a doubt whether an item is recyclable, she said, throw it in the trash.

Check out stlcityrecycles. com/recycle-with-us/database to find out what is recyclable.

Leah Thorsen • 314-340-8320 @leahthorsen on Twitter lthorsen@post-dispatch.com

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SWINGING IN THE RAIN

PHOTOS BY CHRIS LEE • clee@post-dispatch.com

Marcell Ozuna steps on third base as he follows Jose Martinez (foreground) around the bases to score on a two-run single by Jedd Gyorko in the third inning Friday night.

Cards pile up 15 hits to help Wacha earn fifth win of the season

PENA’S BIG NIGHT Francisco Pena went three for four with a home run Friday. With that homer, Francisco and Tony Pena became the second father-son duo to homer while playing for the Cardinals. The first? Ed and Scott Spiezio.

DeJong’s hand injury hits the Cardinals in a vulnerable place

BY RICK HUMMEL St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BEN FREDERICKSON St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Michael Wacha was used to the elements. In 2014, the Cardinals’ righthander endured six weather delays, totaling 6 hours, 30 minutes.

So the rain delay of 1 hour, 35 minutes Friday night at Busch Stadium probCARDINALS 12 ably shouldn’t have upset him too much, at least if perforPHILLIES 4 mance is any barometer. Wacha, scoring his fifth straight > 1:15 p.m. Saturday victory and pitching much of vs. Phillies, FSM it in the rain anyway, held the > Gant (1-1, 4.15) vs. Eflin (1-0, 0.71) Philadelphia Phillies to two runs and fanned eight over six innings in a 12-4 victory. Wacha passed the 100-pitch mark (101) for the first time this season.

Backup catcher Francisco Pena didn’t seem

The reaction to the broken bone in Paul DeJong’s left little finger is similar to the diagnosis of his injury.

The more you examine it, the more it hurts.

What a difference one X-ray makes.

On Thursday evening, teammates razzed the second-year shortstop after he attempted to shake off a hit-by-pitch to remain in Busch Stadium’s batter’s box. An 85 mph slider had nicked DeJong near the knob of his bat, but the ball’s trajectory after that suggested a foul tip, not a season-altering injury. DeJong grudgingly walked to first base, returned to the field and even ripped a line-drive out Francisco Pena points skyward as he crosses the plate after hitting a solo home against the Phillies in the fifth inning.

See CARDINALS • Page B5

Rivals are doubtful that Justify can be beaten in Preakness

See FREDERICKSON • Page B6

J. PORTER STILL ON THE FENCE Work at NBA draft combine gives few clues to decision

BY MATT SCHOCH Special to the Post-Dispatch

CHICAGO • The Missouri basketball

program will be without one of the Porters next season, while another says he plans to be back.

The third one is still a mystery.

Jontay Porter’s short day at the NBA draft combine Thursday provided no clarity about whether he will join his older brother in the pros next season or his dad, who said he plans to be

back in Columbia as an assistant under Cuonzo Martin.

The younger Porter put on a shooting display but did not participate in 5-on-5 scrimmages nor speak to reporters following Thursday’s session.

He did not plan to work out Friday as the combine concluded.

“We were advised to (not play in the scrimmages), because if you watch this, bigs don’t get a lot of touches,” said Michael Porter Sr., a Mizzou assistant, before Jontay missed a sched-

uled media session later. “And so the perception could be that he didn’t really do much, so that’s why a lot of times, bigs don’t play in this.”

Joanna Shapiro of the NBA communications office said it’s possible Jontay Porter did not know he was scheduled to talk to the press. Villanova point guard Jalen Brunson also declined to speak to reporters.

Jontay’s brief trip to the Windy City See PORTER • Page B3

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kentucky Derby winner Justify is groomed outside a barn Friday at Pimlico Race Course.

Jontay Porter • Go pro or return to Mizzou? For Tigers fans, it’s a guessing game at this point.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BALTIMORE • Opposing trainers at the Preakness always want to see the Kentucky Derby winner up close and then set their sights on trying to beat that horse.

This year, they can see Justify. They just don’t know if they can beat him.

There’s such a sense of awe about Justify and an aura around the heavy favorite that it’s clear it’ll take something significant to beat him.

Watching Justify hold off Good Magic in the Derby impressed trainer Chad Brown enough to See PREAKNESS • Page B7 > Preakness Stakes • 5:20 p.m. Saturday, KSDK (5) > Full odds chart • See B7

Michael Porter Jr. He’s definitely heading to the NBA and says he’s more concerned about getting a good fit than going early.

Michael Porter Sr. He will be back on Cuonzo Martin’s Mizzou staff next season, with or without his younger son.

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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH • B5

CHRIS LEE • clee@post-dispatch.com

Philadelphia’s Rhys Hoskins scores on a two-run single by Odubel Herrera in the fifth inning Friday night as Cardinals catcher Francisco Pena is too late with the tag.

NOTEBOOK

CARDINALS 12, PHILLIES 4 Philadelphia AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Hernandez 2b

4 2 2

1

0

Hoskins lf

3 1 0 0

1

0 .277 1 .257

Herrera cf

4 0 1

2

0

2 .358

Santana 1b

4 0 0 0

0

1 .190

Alfaro c

1 0 1 0

1

0 .258

Knapp c

2 0 0 0

0

1 .169

Williams rf

4 0 0 0

0

0 .231

Kingery 3b

2 0 1 0

0

0 .218

Hutchison p

1 0 0 0

0

1 .333

Rios p

0 0 0 0

0

0

Franco 3b

1 0 0 0

0

0 .271

Florimon ss-p

4 1 1

0

1 .286 0 .167

1

---

Arrieta p

1 0 1 0

0

Valentin 3b-ss

3 0 0 0

0

2 .091

34 4 7 4

2

9

Totals Cardinals

AB R H BI BB SO Avg.

Pham cf

3 3 3

1

2

0 .318

Bader cf

0 0 0 0

0

0 .254

Carpenter 3b

5 1 2

1

0

1

Martinez 1b

5 2 4

5

0

0 .320

Mayers p

0 0 0 0

0

0

Ozuna lf

2 1 0 0

2

0 .240 1 .235

.173 ---

Garcia ss

1 0 0 0

0

Gyorko ss

4 0 1

2

0

1 .292

Brebbia p

0 0 0 0

0

0

a-Baron ph-c

1 0 0 0

0

0 .000

Fowler rf

4 0 0 0

1

0 .150

Wong 2b

5 1 1

1

0

0 .190

Pena c-1b

4 3 3

1

0

1 .314

Wacha p

1 0 0 0

0

0 .063

1 1 1 0

0

0

36 12 15 11

5

4

O’Neill lf Totals

Philadelphia 000 020 101 — 4 Cardinals

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.125 7 3

004 113 30x — 12 15 0

a-popped out for Brebbia in the 8th.

E: Hernandez (3), Kingery (3), Hutchison (1). LOB: Philadelphia 5, Cardinals 7.

2B: Alfaro (1), Pham (7), Martinez (12), Pena (1). HR: Hernandez (6), off Brebbia; Florimon (2), off Mayers; Pena (1), off Hutchison; Martinez (5), off Hutchison; Wong (3), off Rios. RBIs: Hernandez (15), Herrera 2 (27), Florimon (5), Pham (19), Carpenter (15), Martinez 5 (28), Gyorko 2 (11), Wong (9), Pena (1). S: Wacha 2.

RLISP: Philadelphia 1 (Florimon); Cardinals 5 (Ozuna, Gyorko 2, Wong, Garcia).

DP: Philadelphia 4 (Hernandez, Florimon, Santana), (Hernandez, Florimon, Santana), (Santana), (Florimon, Hernandez, Santana).

PhiladelphiaIP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Florimon

1 0 0 0

0

Arrieta

3 5 4

2

2

1 64 2.82

Hutchison

3 6 5

5

3

0 66 4.66

1 4 3

3

0

3 36 5.29

Rios Cardinals

6 5 2

Brebbia

2 1 1

Mayers

1 1 1

2

With DeJong’s hand broken, Redbirds bring Munoz back

BY RICK HUMMEL St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In the scramble to find a replacement for iron-man shortstop Paul DeJong, who had surgery for a fractured left hand Friday night, Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak called up infielder-outfielder Yairo Munoz from Memphis.

Mozeliak said he felt that Munoz, who has been playing short a lot for Memphis, probably would be getting much of the playing time during the still undetermined number of weeks (months?) DeJong will be out. But when manager Mike Matheny posted his lineup for Friday’s rain-delayed game with the Philadelphia Phillies, Matheny had veteran infielder Jedd Gyorko at shortstop and, in a press briefing subsequent to Mozeliak’s, said that Gyorko would be the leading man as long as he was as productive as he’s been offensively.

“Jedd’s going to get an opportunity to play the position,” said Matheny. “We also know about Munoz. He’s here for a reason and he’ll get his chance.

“But, as you look at our offense and how Jedd is a big part of that. .. “ Later, Matheny said, “We don’t have a template. I’d like to tell you that we did. But I want to put Jedd out there and give him a chance. It’s a position he’s played before.”

Gyorko, who has played mostly third base and second base in his career, had impressed Matheny with how he moved at shortstop a couple of years ago when he started 25 games there, and Matheny noted that Gyorko probably is 30 pounds lighter now.

With Gyorko at short, Matt Carpenter will be at third and Kolten Wong, who got his first hit in 22 at-bats Thursday, will be at second on at least fairly regular basis.

“I think Jedd deserves a good look and we’ll adjust as we need to,” said Matheny.

Mozeliak said that if the current answers at shortstop aren’t satisfactory, the Cardinals

AVERAGES Batting AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB E J. Martinez .304 148 14 45 11 0 4 23 19 21 0 6 .302 129 31 39 6 0 8 18 24 34 7 2 Pham Gyorko .295 61 10 18 2 0 4 9 11 15 1 1 Pena .258 31 2 8 0 0 0 0 2 8 0 0 Bader .254 67 14 17 0 1 3 5 8 22 4 0 Ozuna .242 165 13 40 5 0 3 21 8 40 2 3 Garcia .240 50 9 12 3 0 2 7 5 13 0 2 Wong .190 100 10 19 3 1 2 8 11 21 1 2 Carpenter .164 122 12 20 9 0 3 14 23 41 0 2 Fowler .154 136 19 21 3 0 5 18 21 34 2 2 Munoz .111 18 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 11 0 1 O’Neill .000 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 .231 1389 173 321 54 2 50 167 157 370 19 29 Team ‌ ‌‌ Pitching W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO 1 0 1.86 6 0 1 9.2 12 3 2 2 2 5 Mayers Norris 1 0 2.14 20 0 9 21.0 17 5 5 1 3 29 2 1 2.29 19 0 0 19.2 12 6 5 0 14 8 Hicks Mikolas 5 0 2.63 8 8 0 51.1 49 16 15 6 5 37 Tuivailala 0 0 2.70 9 0 0 10.0 12 3 3 0 4 7 Flaherty 0 1 2.87 3 3 0 15.2 15 5 5 1 6 14 4 1 3.09 8 8 0 43.2 39 17 15 3 19 36 Wacha 0 1 3.38 5 0 0 2.2 2 1 1 0 0 3 Cecil Brebbia 0 1 4.09 7 0 1 11.0 10 5 5 1 2 15 Gant 1 1 4.15 4 1 0 13.0 10 6 6 0 3 11 3 3 4.37 9 9 0 47.1 43 23 23 3 17 42 Weaver 6.17 15 0 0 11.2 12 9 8 1 13 8 Holland 0 1 23 18 3.48 41 41 11 380.1 350 157 147 33 146 335 Team ‌ Prior to Friday’s game

might look to bring up slick-fielding Wilfredo Tovar from Memphis.

Munoz, who was hitting .287 at Memphis after going for two for 18 at the start of the season here, is considered a better offensive choice than Tovar, although Tovar is hitting .313 at Memphis.

Mozeliak, asked who would get the majority of time at shortstop, said, “I would say Munoz, at this point. Obviously, Greg Garcia can play there as well, based on matchups.

But if you’re looking at a short-term solution, I think it’s going to be Munoz.”

Mozeliak concurred, though, that Gyorko, hitting .295, was one of the better Cardinals batsmen of late and “giving him an opportunity is smart strategy.”

Gyorko’s teammates were high on his chances to take over the position. Wong said, “He’s got more range than people give him credit for. He’s lost weight this year. He’s more mobile and I think he’ll be just fine.”

DeJong, who joined rigthhander Matt

Bowman (blisters on index and middle fingers of his right hand) on a disabled list that has swelled to 10, was hit in the hand by a pitch from Philadelphia righthander Luis Garcia in the eighth inning Thursday. There was no big concern until after the game, when X-rays revealed a fracture of the fifth metacarpal bone.

“He was probably more surprised than anybody else,” Matheny said. “But we were all very surprised.”

In the surgery Friday, a plate was to be inserted into the hand and Mozeliak was optimistic that the healing process would be hastened by that, although he wouldn’t guess a time frame until the surgery was completed.

Speaking to reporters, Mozeliak said, “My understanding is that if this is a break you would have, it would be probably eight to 12 weeks. My understanding is that if you have surgery and get it plated, that could speed it up.”

DeJong had played all 41 games for the Cardinals this season and totaled 156 between Memphis and St. Louis last year.

With Munoz and Tyler O’Neill (13 homers, 31 RBIs, .319 average at Memphis) brought up, the Cardinals will have the rarity of five extra men on the bench and seven relievers.

Matheny said the bench needed to be deeper because the Cardinals might have to pinch hit more often for players who were in the lineup.

MARTINEZ A WEEK OR TWO AWAY Mozeliak said the MRI exam on Carlos Martinez’s lat issue came back “encouraging,” and he said Martinez probably would begin throwing Monday. “Pending on how things unfold, he’s probably a week to two weeks away,” said Mozeliak.

“He’s feeling pretty optimistic about himself, which is good because he feels pain free.”.

Further testing on the right arm of righthander Dominic Leone “clearly points that he has a nerve damage,” Mozeliak said. “That’s just going to take time. There’s nothing surgically, no intervention, to be done.”

Rick Hummel @cmshhummel on Twitter rhummel@post-dispatch.com

0 14 9.00

IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA

Wacha

Gyorko gets first crack at shortstop

2

8 101 3.08

1

0

0 24 4.15

1

0

1 15 2.53

W: Wacha, 5-1. L: Arrieta, 3-2 WP: Arrieta, Hutchison 2, Wacha. PB: Alfaro (2).

Umpires: Home, Dave Rackley; First, Larry Vanover; Second, Hunter Wendelstedt; Third, Ramon De Jesus.

T: 3:26. A: 42,050 (45,538).

HOW THEY SCORED Cards third • Pena singles. Wacha sacrifice bunts Pena to second. Pham doubles, Pena scores. Carpenter grounds out, Pham to third.

J.Martinez singles, Pham scores.

Ozuna reaches second on an error, J.Martinez to third. Gyorko singles, J.Martinez and Ozuna score.

Four runs. Cards 4, Phillies 0.

Cards fourth • Pena doubles. Wacha reaches on an error on a sacrifice bunt attempt, Pena to third. Pena scores on a wild pitch. One run.

Cards 5, Phillies 0.

Phillies fifth • Hernandez singles.

Hoskins walks, Hernandez to second.

Hernandez to third, Hoskins to second on a wild pitch. Herrera singles, Hernandez and Hoskins score. Two runs. Cards 5, Phillies 2.

Cards fifth • Pena homers. One run.

Cards 6, Phillies 2.

Cards sixth • Pham singles, advances to second on an errant pickoff try, advances to third on a wild pitch. Carpenter singles, Pham scores. J.Martinez homers, Carpenter scores. Three runs. Cards 9, Phillies 2.

Phillies seventh • Hernandez homers. One run. Cards 9, Phillies 3.

Cards seventh • Wong homers.

O’Neill singles. Pham singles, O’Neill to second. J.Martinez doubles, O’Neill and Pham score.

Three runs. Cards 12, Phillies 3.

Phillies ninth • Florimon homers.

One run. Cards 12, Phillies 4.

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encumbered by the weather, either. After the first three-hit game of his career on Thursday, Pena reeled off another one Friday, bashing his first National League home run (his fourth overall) and scoring three runs. In the last two games, Pena has raised his average from .185 to .314. The last time his father, Tony, had back-to-back, three-hit games for the Cardinals, was 30 years ago on May 13-14, 1988.

Pena will be the Cardinals’ regular catcher for at least the next two weeks with Yadier Molina on the disabled list, let alone Carson Kelly. Before the game, manager Mike Matheny, who has 10 players on the DL, including new entry Paul DeJong (fractured left hand), said, “This is the opportunity for guys to really shine — to jump into spots they wouldn’t normally would be in and do something special. That message is going to be loud and clear.

“The ones who have been around here understand that’s how you go about this. You get through it and then you start adding pieces.

Until then, you don’t necessarily focus on what you don’t have. You focus on what challenges are ahead of you.”

Jose Martinez, who already had made his presence known, went Pena one better. After getting three hits Thursday, Martinez had four on Friday, driving in five runs, including a two-run homer to the center-field greenery in the sixth as the Cardinals had a seasonhigh 15 hits.

Tommy Pham had three of those hits and two walks, getting on base five times in a row.

With no rain, Wacha’s last two starts had resulted in 14- and 13-inning games for the Cardinals, both lasting into the next morning. This one also sailed past the witching hour but it pretty was much over in the third inning when the Cardinals touched up longtime nemesis Jake Arrieta for four runs. Arrieta had had an 8-4 mark with a 2.27 earned

run average against the Cardinals, working mostly for the Chicago Cubs.

Wacha (5-1) hasn’t allowed more than two runs in his last six starts, and he got all the help he needed in the third-inning cloudburst as the rain began anew.

Pena singled to center and was sacrificed to second by Wacha. Pham rifled a doubled to right center to chase home Pena.

Matt Carpenter’s groundout pushed Pham to third and Martinez blooped a changeup to right to score Pham. Marcell Ozuna, nothing for his last 18 (but two walks Friday), grounded to third baseman Scott Kingery, who may have lost his grip on the wet ball and fired it wide, and the Cardinals wound up with runners at second and third.

Jedd Gyorko, the new shortstop with DeJong sidelined, delivered both with a single to left, making Gyorko five for 12 (.417) with runners in scoring position at the time.

Dexter Fowler went to the top of the rightfield wall in the Phillies’ fourth to rob Carlos Santana of a possible home run. Wacha walked Jorge Alfaro before participating in two fielding plays. He got his gloved hand on a smash by Nick Williams and turned it into a forceout. Then he deflected Kingery’s grounder to second baseman Kolten Wong, who, crossing in front of second base, made a nifty grab of the carom and got the hitter at first.

In the Cardinals’ half of the fourth, Arrieta gave way to righthander Drew Hutchison after amassing 64 pitches in the first three innings. Pena greeted Hutchison with a double to left.

Wacha, executing his club-high fourth sacrifice of the year, bunted Pena to third and reached base himself when second baseman Cesar Hernandez dropped catcher Alfaro’s throw.

Pena scooted home when Hutchison’s wild pitch got through Alfaro and Wacha went to second.

Odubel Herrera extended his on-base

streak to 44 straight games with a two-run single to center in the fifth. Wacha had given up an infield hit and a walk with two outs and had advanced the runners with a wild pitch.

Wong, playing deep in a shift against Santana, gloved a smash while playing well into the outfield to get the final out of the inning.

Pena, who earlier had singled and doubled, then ripped his homer to left off Hutchison to open the fifth. He joined his father as the second father-son combination to homer for the Cardinals, with Ed and Scott Spiezio preceding them.

Pham began the sixth with a single to center. Hutchison had him picked off first base but threw the ball away and then, after letting Pham go to second, wild-pitched him to third.

Carpenter singled for the second time, scoring Pham, and Martinez likewise completed his second three-hit game in succession with a 418-foot homer to center and it was 9-2.

John Brebbia, surrendering his second homer in two nights, gave up Hernandez’s sixth homer with two outs in the seventh. But Wong answered that with his third homer of the year off Yacksel Rios in the home seventh.

Tyler O’Neill, one of the recalls on Friday, singled later in the inning for his first majorleague hit, gaining a standing ovation from the hardy fans who were left.

The game was delayed further before the top of the eighth when home-plate umpire David Rackley left the game with an apparent injury and second-base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt had to change into the home-plate gear to call the rest of the game.

Rick Hummel @cmshhummel on Twitter rhummel@post-dispatch.com

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SUNDAY • 07.22.2018 • B

BRITISH OPEN

Kisner stumbles late but still tied

GONE

1ST INNING • CARPENTER HITS SOLO HOME RUN

BY DERRICK GOOLD St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Zach Johnson also tops leaderboard as course softens and field tightens

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Kevin Kisner grimaces after a bogey on No. 10 on the way to a 70 on Friday at Carnoustie.

C H I C AG O • There were

GONE

2ND INNING • CARPENTER HITS TWO-RUN HOMER

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CARNOUSTIE, SCOTLAND • A light rain in the morning

that gave way to soft sunlight in the afternoon took some of the sting out of Carnoustie.

Just not all of it.

Kevin Kisner found that out with one swing that erased his two-shot lead Friday in the British Open and left him tied with housemate Zach Johnson. He hit an 8-iron that only needed to go 150 yards to clear the Barry Burn in front of the 18th green. Instead, it floated out of the yellow grass to the right, bounced off the base of the rock wall that frames the winding stream and led to a double bogey.

Disappointed but not down, Kisner removed his cap behind the green and scratched his head as if he wondered what hit him.

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LEADERS Z. Johnson -6 K. Kisner -6 T. Fleetwood-5 P. Perez -5 X. Schauffele -5

NOTABLES R. McIlroy -4 J. Spieth -3 T. Woods E TV: 6 a.m., KSDK (5)

Cook sees Iowa as best place for him now

Carpenter has historic game in win vs. Cubs stretches during the days of having a subterranean batting average that Matt Carpenter didn’t recognize the statistics staring back at him from the scoreboard. They didn’t twinkle, they taunted, and at their most troubling he had to stonewall the idea those numbers might be telling.

He once admitted that his production was so paltry that he “might as well not have been around for the first 35 games.” Absence made the resolve grow stronger and when he finally had the swing to match, Carpenter raged ahead and no longer had to squint to see his stats.

Having made up for lost time, he had a game Friday for all time.

See CARDINALS • Page B7

CARDS

18 CUBS

5

> Game 1: 12:05 p.m. at Cubs, FSM Weaver (5-8, 4.72) vs. Chatwood (3-5, 5.04) > Game 2: 6:15 p.m. at Cubs, KTVI (Ch. 2) Gant (4-8, 3.49) vs. Montgomery (3-3, 3.91)

Carpenter’s resurgence Matt Carpenter’s batting has steadily rebounded since a low point on May 15.

Batting avg.

Slugging pct.

.800

July 20

.576 .576

.600

.400 May 15

.272

.274

.200

.140 Mar.

May

June

July

SOURCE: baseball-reference.com

CARDINALS LEADERS IN TOTAL BASES Player Matt Carpenter Mark Whiten Albert Pujols Bill White

GOING GOING 4TH INNING • CARPENTER DOUBLES

4TH INNING • CARPENTER HITS RBI DOUBLE

Date July 20, 2018 Sept. 7, 1993 July 20, 2004 July 5, 1961

Opp CHC CIN CHC LAD

Rslt W W W W

Score 18-5 15-2 11-8 9-1

TB 16 16 15 14

With Shildt’s backing, Fowler eyes new start BEN FREDERICKSON St. Louis Post-Dispatch

CHICAGO • Mid-May felt light

years away.

Five times on Friday, Matt Carpenter bowed his back, heaved a big breath through his beard and found a pitch to feast upon.

Four-seamer. Two-seamer.

Change-up. Two strikes on him. First pitch offered. Southpaw. Righty. He punished them all the same.

With no regard for human life, Carpenter in six innings silenced a Wrigley Field crowd with two doubles, three home runs, seven RBIs and 16 total bases.

From the press box, the swings that secured Carpenter’s place in history sounded like an ax splitting dry wood.

He left the Cubs with no choice but to turn the second of this five-game series into a circus. A carousel of Joe Maddon’s position players came to the mound to mop up the Cardinals’ 18-5 win.

See FREDERICKSON • Page B8

AND GONE! 6TH INNING • CARPENTER HITS A THREE-RUN HOME RUN

AP

Chaminade grad Tyler Cook will return to Iowa for his junior year.

BY PETER BAUGH St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On May 30, Tyler Cook’s last chance to withdraw from the NBA draft, the 6-foot-9 forward woke up with a decision.

Cook had gone through workouts with professional teams but did not hire an agent, meaning he could return to Iowa for his junior season. That’s what the 20-yearold chose to do.

“I went with the decision to wait and give myself a better chance to really be in the upper-first round of next year’s draft,” said Cook, who played high school basketball for Chaminade.

Ahead of the deadline to withdraw, Cook had been training multiple times a day.

As he got out of bed on May 30 and ate breakfast with his parents in St. Louis, he felt a sense of peace in his decision.

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The Cardinals' Kolten Wong tosses water on Matt Carpenter after his third home run of the game against the Cubs on Friday at Wrigley Field.

SPORTS

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07.22.2018 • Sunday • M 4 G1: CUBS 7, CARDINALS 2 Cardinals AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Carpenter 1b 3 1 1 1 1 0 .275 Molina c 1 0 0 1 1 0 .280 DeJong ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 .253 Ozuna lf 3 0 0 0 1 1 .268 Pham cf 2 0 0 0 2 0 .253 Wong 2b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .218 Fowler rf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .174 Garcia 3b 1 0 0 0 1 0 .257 b-Munoz ph-3b 2 1 1 0 0 0 .292 Weaver p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200 c-Martinez ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .298 e-Bader ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .278 Totals 27 2 2 2 6 3 Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Rizzo 1b 2 1 1 0 3 0 .250 Happ cf 4 0 0 0 1 2 .255 Heyward rf 4 2 1 0 1 0 .289 Zobrist 2b 4 2 4 0 1 0 .296 Baez ss 4 1 3 2 0 1 .295 Schwarber lf 1 1 0 1 2 1 .248 Caratini c 3 0 0 1 0 0 .283 La Stella 3b 4 0 2 2 0 0 .282 Chatwood p 1 0 0 0 0 0 .130 a-Almora ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .318 d-Bryant ph-3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .282 Totals 29 7 11 6 8 4 Cardinals 001 000 100 — 2 2 0 Chicago 100 020 40x — 7 11 1 a-grounded out for Edwards in the 6th. b-singled for Garcia in the 7th. c-out on fielder’s choice for Mayers in the 7th. d-grounded out for Cishek in the 7th. e-popped out for Gregerson in the 9th.

E: La Stella (2). LOB: Cardinals 7, Chicago 10. 2B: Baez (26). 3B: Rizzo (1). HR: Carpenter (24), off Chatwood.

RBIs: Carpenter (52), Molina (42), Baez 2 (74), Schwarber (44), Caratini (10), La Stella 2 (16). SB: Molina (3), Pham (10), Baez (19). SF: Molina, Schwarber, Caratini. S: Weaver, Baez, Chatwood.

RLISP: Cardinals 3 (Ozuna, Fowler, Garcia); Chicago 5 (Happ, Baez 2, Schwarber, Caratini). GIDP: DeJong, Heyward. DP: Cardinals 2; Chicago 1.

Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Weaver 4 7 3 3 5 2 77 4.79 Mayers 2 0 0 0 0 0 23 3.55 2/ 3 3 4 4 2 0 17 8.82 Lyons Gregerson 1 1/3 1 0 0 1 2 32 6.17 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chatwood 5 1/3 1 1 1 6 2 85 4.84 2/ Edwards 3 0 0 0 0 0 6 3.03 1/ Wilson 3 1 1 0 0 0 17 2.72 2/ Cishek 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 1.80 Chavez 2 0 0 0 0 1 21 3.39 Weaver pitched to 3 batters in the 5th.

W: Chatwood 4-5. L: Weaver 5-9. H: Edwards 13, Wilson 10, Cishek 13. Inherited runners-scored: Mayers 2-1, Gregerson 1-0, Edwards 1-0, Cishek 2-1. HBP: Chatwood (Molina). WP: Gregerson. PB: Caratini (2).

Umpires: Home, Lance Barksdale; First, Ben May; Second, Ted Barrett; Third, Kerwin Danley. T: 3:13. A: 41,004.

HOW THEY SCORED Cubs first • Rizzo triples. Happ walks.

Heyward grounds into a double play, Rizzo scores. One run. Cubs 1, Cards 0.

Cards third • Carpenter homers. One run.

Cubs 1, Cards 1.

Cubs fifth • Heyward singles. Zobrist singles, Heyward to third. Baez singles, Heyward scores, Zobrist to third.

Schwarber hits a sacrifice fly, Zobrist scores. Two runs. Cubs 3, Cards 1.

Cards seventh • Munoz singles.

J.Martinez reaches on an error, Munoz to second. Carpenter flies out, Munoz to third. Molina hits a sacrifice fly, Munoz scores. One run. Cubs 3, Cards 2.

Cubs seventh • Heyward walks. Zobrist singles, Heyward to third. Baez doubles, Heyward scores, Zobrist to third.

Schwarber intentionally walked. Caratini hits a sacrifice fly, Zobrist scores, Baez to third, Schwarber to second. La Stella singles, Baez and Schwarber score. Four runs. Cubs 7, Cards 2.

CARDINALS

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH • B7

NOTEBOOK

C. Martinez goes on DL with strain AVERAGES

‘Really, really mild’ injury was first treated on Friday

BY DERRICK GOOLD St. Louis Post-Dispatch

CHICAGO • The low, murmuring concern the Cardinals had about having enough relievers available for Saturday’s doubleheader was answered early that morning by a move that created a series of uncertainties all its own.

The Cardinals placed starter Carlos Martinez on the disabled list for a second time this season, removing the righthander from the rotation with an oblique strain. Martinez felt a twinge of pain in his right side during the fifth inning of his start Thursday, and received a localized treatment Friday to attack the soreness. The Cardinals were quick to classify the injury as “really, really mild” and draw a distinction between Martinez’s oblique strain and the one that has sidelined starter Michael Wacha for two months.

“It’s possible in a different situation we would have held off on the DL,” said general manager Michael Girsch. “How he reacted, given the doubleheader and the innings we need, we decided to make the move.”

“They’re really super optimistic,” manager Mike Shildt said.

The Cardinals recalled reliever John Brebbia from Class AAA Memphis to serve in the bullpen Saturday and offer welcome innings if needed. Martinez’s absence, even if it’s only for a start or two, leaves the Cardinals in need of a starter Monday and Tuesday. The team intended to wait until the end of Saturday’s doubleheader before committing, but rookies Austin Gomber and Daniel Poncedeleon are under consideration, and the team has also leaned toward adding Dakota Hudson to the 40-man and giving him a start.

Hudson, 23, is 13-2 with a 2.36 ERA in 18 starts at Triple-A. He is a ruthless groundball-getter, and he represented the Cardinals in this past weekend’s Futures Game.

The moves with Martinez and Brebbia were

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Batting AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB E J. Martinez .298 322 35 96 18 0 13 56 33 55 0 7 Munoz .291 158 18 46 5 0 6 26 13 41 5 9 Molina .280 239 29 67 8 0 13 42 17 36 3 3 Bader .279 190 33 53 7 1 6 14 17 58 9 1 Carpenter .277 332 64 92 30 0 25 53 58 90 0 8 Ozuna .268 366 39 98 9 1 10 51 24 75 2 3 DeJong .258 198 33 51 11 0 8 21 19 57 0 8 Pham .256 328 66 84 10 0 14 41 41 91 10 5 Garcia .250 112 13 28 5 0 3 11 14 23 0 4 Gyorko .244 217 24 53 11 1 7 30 24 53 1 11 Wong .216 245 29 53 10 2 7 24 19 45 3 3 .198 106 8 21 2 0 2 7 4 32 1 1 Pena Fowler .173 254 34 44 9 0 7 28 29 65 3 4 Team ‌ .247 3327 445 823 138 5 127 425 322 831 37 82

Pitching W L ERA G GS SV IP H R ER HR BB SO Mikolas 10 3 2.79 19 19 0 119.1 105 40 37 8 20 83 3 2 2.97 40 0 18 39.1 32 15 13 4 6 50 Norris Flaherty 4 4 3.15 15 15 0 80.0 61 31 28 11 28 96 Gant 3 3 3.17 13 7 0 54.0 37 25 19 3 25 45 Hicks 3 2 3.44 45 0 2 49.2 34 21 19 1 25 43 2 0 3.55 28 0 1 33.0 32 14 13 3 7 27 Mayers Tuivailala 2 3 3.90 30 0 0 30.0 34 14 13 3 11 24 1 3 4.13 27 0 2 32.2 32 15 15 3 8 36 Brebbia Cecil 0 1 4.63 26 0 0 23.1 25 14 12 2 17 13 Weaver 5 9 4.79 20 20 0 107.0 107 59 57 13 41 98 Gregerson 0 0 6.17 16 0 0 11.2 12 8 8 2 5 11 Holland 0 2 7.92 32 0 0 25.0 34 28 22 1 22 22 Lyons 1 0 8.82 26 0 0 16.1 24 16 16 3 8 19 Team ‌ 50 48 3.91 98 98 23 883.1 817 426 384 85 347 801

two of a handful made Saturday morning.

Luke Weaver was promoted as the 26th man so he could start the first game. Miles Mikolas was added to the active roster after three days on paternity leave.

Martinez first felt soreness when reaching to field a ball at the start of the fifth inning Thursday. He remained in the game because he felt it “wasn’t serious enough that he couldn’t still compete,” Shildt said. Martinez did see a dip in velocity after that moment, and only two of the first 18 pitches he threw in the inning were swifter than 90 mph. When asked after the game about that trend, Martinez and the Cardinals said it was by design to take a little off his pitches to invite contact, get grounders and end the inning.

The Cubs pounced on him for four runs in the inning, and two of them came on a home run by Ian Happ. He saw nothing but offspeed pitches in his at-bat.

Martinez will continue to travel with the team on this road trip. If Friday’s treatment does not have the desired effect he could be sent for an MRI. Wacha’s oblique strain was on the left side and considered more severe.

“I’m trying to take care of myself, trying not to be hurt for a long time,” said Martinez, who missed a month with a lat strain on the same side earlier this season. “ It’s hard for me, because I want to compete. I want to help myself and help my team.”

COOPERSTOWN CALLING, MCGEE MARVELING The game has come to be known as the Sandberg Game, mostly because it was his home runs that drove the Cubs back from a deficit and to a win against the Cardinals. How the Cardinals got a lead however was all about the Willie McGee Game. On July 23, 1984, McGee went four-for-six with six RBIs and needed only a single for the cycle at Wrigley Field. So McGee knows, firsthand, what a marvelous game at Wrigley is like.

Hard to imagine one better than Matt Carpenter’s three-homer, two-double five-forfive game Friday, he said. “I’ve played with Barry Bonds. I’ve played with a lot of guys.

And nothing like that,” McGee said. “Fun to watch. I’ve never seen anything like it. Even his doubles had a chance to go. He hit those hard. It’s simple as that. He squared them all.”

On Saturday, Carpenter was invited by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to donate an item from the game to Cooperstown and will send the bat at some point. In the game, Carpenter tied the Cardinals’ record for career leadoff homers (21), tied the club record for total bases (16), and became the first Cardinal ever to have five extra-base hits in one game. And he’s the first known player in baseball history to do all of that by the end of the sixth inning.

The Cardinals said Carpenter was considering what to give to the Hall. It won’t be batting gloves, as Carpenter doesn’t wear any.

Shildt gave him the lineup card and suggested they might see it “hanging in his home” someday. “We saw history,” the manager said.

G2: CARDINALS 6, CUBS 3 Cardinals AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Bader rf 3 2 1 0 2 0 .279 Martinez 1b 3 0 1 0 0 0 .298 2 1 0 0 0 1 .216 Wong 2b DeJong ss 4 1 2 2 0 0 .258 Ozuna lf 4 0 1 0 1 1 .268 4 1 2 2 1 0 .256 Pham cf Garcia 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .250 b-Molina ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .280 1-Flaherty pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .154 1 0 0 0 0 1 .173 d-Fowler ph Munoz 3b 4 0 1 1 1 1 .291 Pena c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .198 2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Gant p Carpenter 1b 1 1 1 1 1 0 .277 35 6 10 6 7 7 Totals Chicago AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Rizzo 1b 5 0 4 1 0 0 .258 Bryant 3b 4 0 0 1 1 0 .278 Heyward rf 5 0 1 0 0 0 .287 Baez 2b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .292 2 0 0 0 0 0 .293 Zobrist 2b Contreras c 3 0 1 0 2 0 .279 Schwarber lf 3 1 0 0 1 0 .245 Almora cf 3 1 1 0 1 1 .318 Russell ss 4 1 0 0 0 0 .267 Montgomery p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .100 a-La Stella ph 0 0 0 1 1 0 .282 c-Happ ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .255 Totals 34 3 7 3 7 3 Cardinals 100 000 113 — 6 10 1 Chicago 000 003 000 — 3 7 0 a-pinch hit for Montgomery in the 6th. b-walked for Hicks in the 8th. c-walked for Strop in the 8th. d-struck out for Tuivailala in the 9th.

1-ran for Molina in the 8th.

E: DeJong (8). LOB: Cardinals 10, Chicago 11.

2B: DeJong (11), Pham (10). HR: Carpenter (25), off Rosario. RBIs: DeJong 2 (21), Pham 2 (41), Munoz (26), Carpenter (53), Rizzo (63), Bryant (43), La Stella (17). SB: Munoz (5), Pena (1), Contreras (4). SF: DeJong.

RLISP: Cardinals 5 (Bader 2, Munoz 2, Pena); Chicago 4 (Heyward, Baez, Almora, Russell). GIDP: Pham, Contreras.

DP: Cardinals 1; Chicago 1.

IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Cardinals 5 4 0 0 3 2 82 3.17 Gant 1/ Holland 3 1 3 1 2 0 18 7.92 2/ Hicks 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 25 3.44 Tuivailala 1 0 0 0 1 0 13 3.90 Norris 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 2.97 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Montgomery 6 5 1 1 2 3 87 3.73 2/ Rosario 3 1 1 1 0 0 7 2.22 Strop 1 1/3 2 1 1 2 2 31 2.63 Wilson 0 0 2 2 2 0 10 3.18 1/ Cishek 3 2 1 1 1 0 15 1.99 2/ Maples 3 0 0 0 0 2 12 13.50 Wilson pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

W: Tuivailala 2-3. L: Wilson 3-3. S: Norris 18-20. H: Rosario 7. Inherited runnersscored: Hicks 3-2, Cishek 2-1, Maples 2-0.

Umpires: Home, Will Little; First, Ted Barrett; Second, Kerwin Danley; Third, Ben May. T: 3:38. A: 41,244.

HOW THEY SCORED Cards first • Bader singles. J.Martinez singles, Bader to third. DeJong hits a sacrifice fly, Bader scores. One run. Cards 1, Cubs 0.

Cubs sixth • Schwarber walks. Almora singles, Schwarber to second. Russell reaches on an error, Schwarber to third, Almora to second. La Stella walks, Schwarber scores, Almora to third, Russell to second. Rizzo singles, Almora scores, Russell to third, La Stella to second.

Bryant grounds into a force out, Russell scores. Three runs. Cubs 3, Cards 1.

Cards seventh • Carpenter homers. One run. Cubs 3, Cards 2.

Cards eighth • Pham singles. Molina walks, Pham to second, Flaherty runs for Molina. Munoz singles, Pham scores. One run. Cubs 3, Cards 3.

Cards ninth • Carpenter walks. Bader walks, Carpenter to second. Wong bunts into a force out, Carpenter out at third, Bader to second. DeJong doubles, Bader scores, Wong to third. Ozuna intentionally walked. Pham doubles, Wong and DeJong score, Ozuna to third. Three runs. Cards 6, Cubs 3.

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The Cubs’ Javier Baez argues a called third strike by umpire Will Little and getse ejected during the fifth inning of the second game.

Relievers Lyons, Holland allowed total of 7 runs CARDINALS • FROM B1

games during the same season, and afterward he explained the secret to his sauce, er, success.

“I wouldn’t call it chunky,” Carpenter said.

“This is the sweeter version. Not as hot. I’m big into salsa, and I’ve just been making it. I just happened to bring it on the road trip, and it’s going pretty well. … I’m going to keep eating it until it stops happening.”

The Cardinals and starter John Gant clung to a 1-0 lead through the first five innings of Saturday’s night game before the Cubs turned on reliever Greg Holland. As fast as a bases-loaded walk, the game flipped on the Cardinals and the series threatened to do the same. The Cubs stacked their lineup for the night game, went for the KO, and could have come away with a 9 ½-game lead on the Cardinals with a win. They would have secured the five-game series with another game to play and put the Cardinals on the precipice of bowing out.

Manager Mike Shildt did not start Carpenter in the second game, despite the hottest hitter in all the land homering for one of the Cardinals’ two hits in the afternoon game. Shildt faced questions about Carpenter absence and explained it was planned, it was game off, it’s purpose was to keep him as fresh as the salsa he had in a glass jar.

At the right time, Shildt wanted to have Carpenter to chip in.

Through a series of double-switches that put Holland in the game and yanked him out, Shildt was able to get Carpenter two plate appearances in the night game and improve the Cardinals defense for the final three innings.

Each of those plate appearances paid off.

“That’s a mental lift right there, no question,” Shildt said of Carpenter’s homer. “A lot of times a double-switch is about the pitcher.

In that case it wasn’t about the pitcher. …

Across the board we still got better defensively with every move and we got our guy

who is hotter than a firecracker making sure he’s getting at least a couple of more at-bats.”

A day after hitting three homers and two doubles before the sixth inning of Friday’s win, Carpenter homered and walked in the afternoon loss. His home run in his first atbat Saturday night tied Mark McGwire’s club record for home runs in sixth consecutive games, though McGwire did it spread over the end and start of two different seasons.

Carpenter’s seven home runs in four days are the most in a single series at Wrigley, by a visitor or a Cub, and he still has another game to play.

“You talk about big hit after big hit after big hit,” Shildt said.

“My god,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.

“Not missing anything.”

While Shildt waited to find a spot for Carpenter in the second game, the doubleheader kept finding the Cardinals bullpen. Exposed at times because of the Cardinals’ meek offense or faulty defense, the Cardinals’ relief has been a puzzle also season with few corner pieces to make everything fit together. There is no hiding for a bullpen in a doubleheader, no script it’s certain to follow. Luke Weaver, fresh from a tuneup in Class AAA Memphis, got a 1-1 game into the fifth inning during the afternoon. The Cardinals turned two walks and a hit batter from Tyler Chatwood (45) into a bases-loaded chance, but DeJong skipped into a double play. The reversal was complete when Weaver (5-9) allowed three consecutive singles.

That pressed the bullpen into duty early, and Mike Mayers was able to wriggle free of the jam after allowing only a sacrifice fly. The Cardinals trailed, 3-1.

Mayers entered the game to face lefty Kyle Schwarber, a slugger who slugs far less against a lefty. Shildt said he liked the matchup with the righthander Mayers more.

Left unsaid was how the Cardinals’ lefties – Brett Cecil and Tyler Lyons – have struggled.

Cecil didn’t a throw a pitch in the double-

header; Lyons threw enough to allow four runs. When a lefty assignment did arrive, Lyons walked him in the seventh and a costly cascade began. The walk was the sin.

“We’ll help you across the street after the game. If you want a cheeseburger, we’ll buy you one,” Shildt said. “But, in competition, you don’t want to give anything away.”

The garden where Carpenter has grown the ingredients for his salsa was a gift. Teammate Adam Wainwright built Carpenter a garden at his St. Louis home. Spade struck dirt in the middle of May, about the time Carpenter was hitting .140. On May 29, plants went in the ground. Carpenter’s average was up to .223 with a .778 OPS. Something was budding.

In 45 games since, he’s slugged .747 with a 1.181 OPS. His season total has grown to .979. Carpenter said he prefers his salsa like his streaks – hot. But he’ll temper it some for his family, and he brought a milder version on this road trip, a first. Teammates have started asking about it. Bud Norris, who got his 18th save of the season with a scoreless ninth, posed for a picture with a half-eaten salsa jar.

Carpenter entered the game at the same time as Holland, and immediately started reversing what happened that inning. The home run was his 25th of the season, and his past 12 hits have all gone for extra bases. The rest of the ingredients came from teammates.

Yairo Munoz’s two-out RBI in the eighth tied the game, 3-3. The winds at Wrigley robbed Carpenter of another home run in the afternoon game, just as they cost DeJong a possible homer early in the night cap. In the ninth, DeJong shed his prickly series — three errors, the costly bases-loaded double play — with a tie-breaking double down the line. Tommy Pham blew it open with a two-run double.

Carpenter said his teammates can have as much salsa as they want.

Just not the recipe.

“No,” Carpenter said. “I can’t tell you what’s in the salsa.”