Goldschmidt HR triggers four-run first inning.
Carlson, at 21, ended up being the very first gamer in major league history with 2 hits, two runs, two walks and a double in his very first postseason game. He also took a struck away with a diving catch in left field in the seventh inning..
The Cardinals were 23-1 in the regular season when they scored 5 runs or more so their quick start augured well.
However previous Cardinal Tommy Pham poked a run-scoring single in the 3rd for the Padres, who had five hits in three innings off Kim, who had actually a 1.62 earned run typical in the routine season. And after Kim walked Trent Grisham with 2 out in the fourth, he was replaced by righthander Ryan Helsley.
Fowler assisted Helsley out of the inning by making a lunging, jumping catch of Tatis Jr.s liner to deep best..
His hits Wednesday began the 48th anniversary of fellow Puerto Rican star Roberto Clementes 3,000 th hit. Molina, a former Roberto Clemente Award winner, was using a Clemente warmup t-shirt before the video game.
Matt Carpenter drove in a run in both the very first and a two-run third, the latter inning featuring singles by Carpenter, Carlson and DeJong and a double by Molina. The hit, who later had another single, was Molinas 97th in postseason play, connecting him for fifth in baseball history.
