Cardinals' Flaherty Almost No-Hits Cubs In Win

ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Cardinals' Jack Flaherty held the Chicago Cubs without a hit into the sixth inning before Nicholas Castellanos singled to break up the no-hitter.

Flaherty kept the Cubs off-balance and went seven innings to improve his record to 5-6 on the season as the Cardinals won 8-0. Flaherty had gone winless through the last 12 starts. He finished with nine strikeouts and allowed two walks.

St. Louis went through five Cubs pitchers, banging out 14 hits including a sixth inning home run by Matt Wieters and doubles by Tommy Edman and Paul Dejong. Dejong also had two singles. Wieters finished with a single to go with that home run and had three RBI. Kolten Wong had three singles and an RBI. Yairo Munoz had two singles and two RBI.

Major League Baseball has announced eight suspensions after that benches-clearing brawl between the Reds and Pirates.

Pirates’ reliever Keone Kela was hit hardest with a 10-game suspension, while José Osuna, Kyle Crick and manager Clint Hurdle were also suspended.

Reds’ pitcher Amir Garrett was given an eight-game suspension, while manager David Bell, pitcher Jared Hughes and then-Reds outfielder Yasiel Puig also were suspended.

Thursday, August 1 Scoreboard

St. Louis 8, Chicago Cubs 0

New York Mets 4, Chicago White Sox 0

Miami 5, Minnesota 4 (F/12)

Oakland 5, Milwaukee 3

Philadelphia 10, San Francisco 2

Toronto 11, Baltimore 2

Tampa Bay 9, Boston 4

Houston 7, Cleveland 1

Atlanta 4, Cincinnati 1 (F/7)

Los Angeles Dodgers 8, San Diego 2