Brandon Phillips botched up  this play in the eighth inning, helping the Cardinals to a victory.

Brandon Phillips botched up this play in the eighth inning, helping the Cardinals to a victory.

Never make the first or third out at third base! It’s one of the Cardinal sins of baseball and yet there were the Cincinnati Reds doing it twice against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Yadier Molina hit a clutch homer, and Adam Wainwright won his 100th game with great pitching, but the Cardinals made three errors on routine plays for major leaguers and the Reds let them off the hook.

I’ll break down the plays and show you how the Cardinals escaped disaster.