It came apart in the eighth. San Francisco scored 6 runs in the frame, with Bryce Eldridge's two-run single and a go-ahead double from Lee doing the damage, and needed all of it — the Giants committed 3 errors on the night against a clean St. Louis defense.
It's the Giants' third straight win in this series and their third in a row overall, a stretch that looks a lot better on the scoreboard than it does on the underlying pitching, since neither Roupp nor Tidwell has had to be sharp for San Francisco to keep winning these games. For St. Louis, it's the exact kind of late collapse that's defined a wild-card push that was already fading before tonight.
Oracle Park's Polymarket room ran about a third hotter than a typical MLB night and stayed locked in through the finish — the 5-minute stretch with the most traffic landed right as the eighth inning blew open. "Bannngggggg," one poster holding the Cardinals wrote as St. Louis's lead still looked safe. Another, watching the same swing turn, put it simply: "I bet on whatever Patrick doesn't bet on. 100% success rate since doing that."