Sports – Friday, June 8th, 2018

Miles Mikolas rebounded from his first loss of the season to pitch three-hit ball over seven innings and lead the St. Louis Cardinals over the Miami Marlins 4-1 on Thursday. Mikolas (7-1) allowed an unearned run, struck out five and walked one. Jose Martinez hit a two-run homer in the first, giving him a team-high 35 RBIs. Luke Voit also homered for the Cardinals who will be in Cincinnati this weekend starting tonight at 5:15, Saturday at 2:15 & Sunday at 11:15 on KSMO.

Matt Chapman doubled in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning to make a winner of Paul Blackburn in his first start of the season, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 4-1 on Thursday night. Matt Olson hit his 13th home run, Stephen Piscotty singled three times and Marcus Semien added two hits and an RBI to help the A’s to their third win in four games against the Royals over the past seven days. Kansas City will be in Oakland all weekend.