Both offenses found ways to put runs on the board early, setting up a game that had way more scoring than anyone drawing up a pitching matchup card would've guessed.
The Yankees actually had the lead heading into the eighth after chipping away with a 3-run fifth and a 4-run seventh off the Cardinals bullpen. Then St. Louis answered with a 7-run eighth that buried New York for good, turning a tight, back-and-forth game into a 13-7 laugher in a matter of minutes. That's the kind of inning that erases a comeback and then some.
St. Louis came in having dropped 4 of its last 5, part of a stretch that had already pushed the Cardinals below .500 for the first time all season. A night like this, with 13 runs and 13 hits, is exactly the kind of outburst a lineup needs to shake off a slump like that.
Schlittler's line got wrecked by circumstance more than anything he did wrong on the mound, and the Yankees now have to regroup fast with three games left in this series and a beat-up roster that isn't getting healthier by the day.