The St. Louis Cardinals dropped a 4-2 game to the Cincinnati Reds at Busch Stadium on Friday, and the loss reflected two familiar problems. Reliever George Soriano gave up a towering 435-foot home run to Eugenio Suarez, but St. Louis also struggled to generate enough offense to recover.
Soriano was tagged with the key mistake when Suarez crushed a hanging slider, turning a close game in Cincinnati’s favor. The blast stood out as the biggest swing of the night and put added pressure on a Cardinals lineup that had little margin for error.
At the plate, the Cardinals once again came up short. The club managed very little production overall, with rookies Blaze Jordan and Jimmy Crooks providing the team’s only hits. That lack of offense made it difficult for St. Louis to answer after Suarez’s home run.
In the end, the Cardinals’ 4-2 loss to the Reds was shaped by both the decisive homer and another quiet night from the lineup. For St. Louis, the game underscored how thin the path to winning becomes when timely hitting is hard to find.
