Cardinals center fielder Tommy Pham was lifted from the game after injuring himself stealing second with a headfirst slide in the sixth. He said he suffered a split lip when his helmet came off and hit him in the face during the slide.

WACHA OUT AFTER TWO INNINGS

Michael Wacha’s second spring start for the Cardinals on Sunday was an abbreviated affair. Not in pitches (45) but in innings (two).

Filling almost every statistical category, Wacha allowed six hits, five of them singles, and walked one, in giving up three runs to the Washington Nationals. Wacha also committed a balk and threw a wild pitch while fanning two.

Washington scored all three of its runs off Wacha in the first. But of the six hits he allowed, only a couple were really hit with authority.

Wacha said he had trouble throwing his breaking pitches for strikes. "It doesn't really help you out when all you have is fastball, changeup, I guess," he said.

"You can just look for those two pitches. Especially when they are not located well, those can get hit."