ATLANTA — The reason St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol gave early Tuesday afternoon at Truist Park for wanting to give Nolan Gorman a “run” with a lot of playing time arrived just in time that evening for the Cardinals to end their sidewinding road skid.
Gorman, the young infielder searching for his swing since returning from a hamstring injury, struck out twice and was hitless in his four previous at-bats before the eighth inning. In the sixth, with the bases loaded and his team aching for some hitter to upend the trends, Gorman flew out to center field, furious as he missed the chance.
But, as Marmol noted when he connects consistently, he often doubles. When he connected again in the eighth, he doubled.
Gorman cleared the bases with a double down the right-field line that shattered a tie game and lifted the Cardinals to a 10-4 victory against the Atlanta Braves.
The Atlanta bullpen again was hammered. The Braves’ final four relievers — Rafael Montero, Dylan Lee, Enyel De Los Santos and newcomer Nathan Wiles — were charged with eight runs in four innings as the team’s four-game win streak was snapped.