Cardinals score six runs in ninth inning to rally past Reds

CINCINNATI — With the game on the line in the top of the ninth on Thursday afternoon, the Cardinals desperately needed a ball in the air.

Pinch-hitter Everson Pereira couldn’t provide it, meaning that JJ Wetherholt simply lofting a routine fly ball thereafter was not supposed to have any tangible impact that would favor the Cardinals, who were down to their final out after Pereira’s…