None of that mattered once the bats got going. Both offenses had recent boom-or-bust stretches — St. Louis had scored 13 and 8 runs in back-to-back games against the Dodgers, and Colorado had alternated wins and losses over its last five — and Sunday leaned hard toward boom. The Polymarket chat room for this one drew a modest crowd relative to a typical night on the slate, but the people in it got a show.
St. Louis actually led into the middle innings, scratching across single runs in the 2nd, 5th and two more in the 6th. But Colorado blew the game open with a 6-run 5th inning that erased the deficit in one swing of the bat, then tacked on 4 more in the 7th to put it away. The Cardinals answered with 2 in the 9th, but by then the hole was too deep — St. Louis finished with 13 hits and 2 errors, Colorado with 11 hits and none, and the extra outs handed to Colorado's defense were part of the story.
The result stings more for St. Louis given the stakes. The Cardinals came in tied at 71-71 in the crowded chase for the National League's last wild-card spot, and every loss to a last-place team is one they can't afford in that math. Colorado, sitting well outside any playoff picture, had nothing to play for except spoiling somebody else's September — and did exactly that.
The busiest stretch in the Polymarket chat came right as Colorado's 5th-inning rally was unfolding, and the room turned on a dime. "Where the St Louis natives at?!" one poster wrote as the Cardinals still held the lead; a little while later, someone holding the Cardinals summed up the reversal more bluntly: "GOT FUCKED ON THIS SHIT BRUH." It was that kind of inning, and that kind of night for the visiting dugout.