RIXEY STOPS WEARY CARDS AFTER BITTER CHICAGO TRIP, REDS WIN 9 TO 6

Old Cincinnati Left-Hander Turns Back St. Louis At Sportsman’s Park — Redbirds Return Home Dragging After Long Rail Haul From Wrigley Beatings

The Cardinals finally dragged themselves home from Chicago Monday afternoon only to run straight into another old National League headache named Eppa Rixey.

The veteran Cincinnati left-hander held Rogers Hornsby’s club in check after the early innings and the Reds battered their way to a 9 to 6 victory at Sportsman’s Park before 5,000 customers.

It was another sour afternoon for the Cardinals after the bruising Chicago trip where the Cubs knocked St. Louis pitching dizzy for four straight days at Wrigley Field.

Now the Reds arrived in town and kept the misery rolling.

Rixey picked up his first victory of the season while Vic Keen suffered his first defeat after Cincinnati broke the game apart with a savage sixth inning uprising. Carl Mays finished the late work and earned the save for the Reds.

For a little while it looked as if the Cardinals might finally shake themselves awake after the long overnight rail ride home from Chicago.

St. Louis jumped on Cincinnati early and shoved four runs across during the third inning while the crowd finally had something to bark about after the ugly North Side beatings.

But the Reds came roaring back.

Cincinnati punched across 3 runs in the third inning to stay close, then ripped the whole affair loose in the sixth with a 4-run attack that broke the Cardinal pitching apart.

The Reds added 2 more in the seventh and suddenly the Cardinals were drowning again.

By the finish Cincinnati had collected 9 hits and taken full advantage of tired St. Louis pitching that still looked battered from the Chicago shellacking.

The Cardinals managed only 7 hits of their own and could never fully recover after the Reds wrecked the middle innings. St. Louis also committed another error afield while Cincinnati played loose themselves with 2 miscues.

The defeat dropped the Cardinals to 8 victories against 11 defeats while Cincinnati climbed to 10 victories against 7 losses.

Right now the Cardinals look like a club running on dead legs.

The Chicago trip mauled the pitching staff.

The train ride home brought no relief.

And Monday afternoon old Eppa Rixey made certain the misery kept rolling.

— Mike Allen, Bird Chatter Post