Lance Berkman's one-out, bases-loaded single over the head with Philadelphia heart fielder Michael Martinez inside ninth inning tonight afforded the actual Cardinals some sort of 2-1 succeed along with a carry of the two-game string at Busch Stadium.
Berkman, who climbed to trust with four of five dish appearances, got his make righthanded following Philadelphia possessed turned in order to lefthanded reliever J.C. Romero. The inning started off together with consecutive singles off righthander Danys Baez simply by Ryan Theriot in addition to Jon Jay, which each one received their subsequent hit, and subsequently an individual by way of Albert Pujols, whose third reach has been a bloop single to right.
Theriot, confused in case subsequent baseman Pete Orr could distressed that pop fly, had in order to hesitate after which was ceased during third.
Matt Holliday, practically nothing for their last 13, grounded sharply in order to shortstop Jimmy Rollins, exactly who threw home to get a forceout. But Berkman next strike a baseball far enough that it would have happen to be a sacrifice soar if Martinez had not recently been trying to play so shallow.
The earning pitcher had been Fernando Salas (2-0), who worked a scoreless ninth inning. The winning pitcher needs already been lefthander Jaime Garcia (5-0), whom permitted just an unearned manage within the eighth inning seeing that your dog lowered their ERA to 1.64.
"He did an awesome job," said boss Tony La Russa.
Garcia's bid for his third shutout appeared to be snuffed whenever Tyler Greene, a protecting replacement at second base, slipped a routine popup within the eighth. A solitary plus sacrifice rise followed.
"If that will adventure makes off from you, it is pretty horrible," said La Russa. "Tyler wishes the item hence poor he / she only gets in the manner with himself. I want he would just relax some sort of bit of little in addition to make it possible for their potential flow.
"Nobody thinks even worse when compared with this individual really does though they does not sense while terrible now simply because we won."
The Phillies, which still possess the National League's finest file with 25-16, have scored three or fewer runs inside 22 of the first 41 games. They tallied just two runs, one particular earned, from the Cardinals with not one but two nights here.
The Cardinals' Tyler Grene, inserted the actual inning before for security during next base, dropped a new workout popup within the eighth inning to empower that Philadelphia Phillies to hurt Jaime Garcia 's bid for any third shutout plus link the experience at 1-1 at Busch Stadium.
Garcia experienced blanked the particular Phillies upon four visits to get seven innings before Greene muffed Jimmy Rollins' popup just about the outfield grass. Rollins went to third with a individual by Michael Martinez as well as have scored using a sacrifice rise by simply Placido Polanco because middle fielder Jon Jay manufactured a good operating catch.
The inning might have been a whole lot worse to the Cardinals although Garcia struck away St. Louisan Ryan Howard, the actual Phillies' merely strength source, for the third directly tine.
The Cardinals' Jaime Garcia in addition to Philadelphia's Roy Oswalt matched three scoreless innings tonight at Busch Stadium in advance of Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina drove within the earliest work with the game which includes a single from the fourth inning.
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