Reliever Bryse Wilson entered the game and quickly got ahead on Winn, 0-2. Winn fouled off a 93.5-mph fastball to keep the count at two strikes. When Wilson turned to the curveball for the first time, Winn turned on it.
He landed it 391 feet away in the bleachers for a 11-0 lead.
In two games against Peterson this season, the Cardinals have scored 16 runs and pelted the lefty with 16 hits. The Cubs aren’t in a position to bail on the lefty so soon after acquiring him and so quickly before they have better health in their rotation. But they may rethink the rotation if Peterson is set for a third start against the Cardinals.
After all, the third time through a lineup is supposed to be even harder.
Row, row, row your way to a rout
It didn’t take long for Fermin to get a chance to try the celebration he wanted to adopt.
From the same player who purchased the “Beware of Dogs” sign for the Cardinals dugout and found the “Dawg” chain bestowed upon home-run hitters came Friday’s new entry into the Cardinals catalog of celebrations: The Norwegian Row. Borrowing from the fans of Norway’s soccer team this World Cup and their simulated rowing up escalators and in the stands, Fermin wanted to try to duplicate the Norway team’s variation as a hit celebration.
When he doubled with one out in the second inning, Fermin got his chance.
A huge soccer fan, he pretended the bang a drum at second base just as Norway’s soccer team does, and then his teammates in the dugout did a big sweep of their arms as if oarsmen on a boat. In the third inning, Fermin again split the Cubs outfielders for an RBI double, and when he got to second he pantomimed banging on a drum.
