ST. LOUIS - Four pitchers combined for five innings of scoreless, two-hit relief after Miles Mikolas appeared to get injured in his delayed season debut, and Yadier Molina hit a tiebreaking home run that lifted the St. Louis Cardinals over the Chicago Cubs 2-1.
Molina broke a 1-1 tie when led off the seventh inning with his seventh home run this season, connecting on a slider with an 0-2 count from Adbert Alzolay. Mikolas was activated Saturday.
He missed last season after flexor tendon surgery, then hurt his pitching shoulder in his first bullpen session of 2021.
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Jeremiah Paprocki on becoming the Cubs' first Black PA announcer
Jeremiah Paprocki joins Good Day Chicago to talk about debuting as the Chicago Cubs PA announcer and the history he made along the way,