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MLB: St. Louis 1, Houston 0

Wed, 08/26/2009 - 10:57 by preet_20

St. Louis, Aug. 25: Adam Wainwright allowed three hits over eight innings Tuesday and outdueled Wandy Rodriguez to bring the St. Louis Cardinals a 1-0 win over Houston.

The tremendous battle of high-quality pitchers saw the teams combine for just six hits.

St. Louis scored the only run of the game in the first on a single by Brendan Ryan and a double by Albert Pujols.

Wainwright (15-7) struck out five and did not allow a walk in pitching the Cardinals to their third straight win and their eighth victory in 10 games.

Rodriguez (12-8) allowed three hits and struck out six in seven innings.

Ryan Franklin walked Lance Berkman on four pitches with two out in the ninth before picking up his 33rd save.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International.

MLB: St. Louis 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2

Tue, 08/18/2009 - 11:06 by Jaspreet Virk

Los Angeles, Aug. 18: Rick Ankiel belted a two-run homer and Albert Pujols had a solo shot Monday to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Chris Carpenter (13-3) picked up his fifth straight win, allowing two runs on five hits with eight strikeouts over eight innings and the Cardinals won for the ninth time in their last 10 games.

Casey Blake drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and James Loney had an RBI single for the Dodgers, who lost for the fourth in their last five games.

Charlie Haeger (0-1) went seven innings in his first start of 2009 -- and his second major league start overall -- giving up three runs on five hits to take the loss.

MLB: St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 2

Thu, 08/13/2009 - 10:29 by preet_20

St. Louis, Aug. 13: Albert Pujols boosted his home run total to a major-league leading 38 with his second in as many games Wednesday, helping boost St. Louis past Cincinnati 5-2.

The Cardinals won for the fifth time in six outings and increased their lead over the Chicago Cubs to four games in the National League Central.

St. Louis capitalized on a throwing error by starting pitcher Homer Bailey to score three times in the first. The error came after Bailey had scrambled to pick up a Pujols line drive that hit Bailey in the foot.

Bailey (2-4) left the game without having retired a batter.

Pujols hit his home run in the third to give St. Louis a 4-1 lead. Matt Holliday contributed three of the 10 St. Louis hits.

MLB: St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 4

Sat, 08/08/2009 - 09:59 by preet_20

Pittsburgh, Aug. 8: Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer Friday as St. Louis beat Pittsburgh 6-4.

The homer gave St. Louis a 2-0 lead with two outs in the top of the first.

Mark DeRosa, like Holliday, a trade-deadline acquisition, had three hits, including a solo homer.

Ryan Ludwick, Khalil Greene and Skip Schumaker each had one RBI, while Albert Pujols added three hits for the Cardinals, who have split their last four games.

Winner Chris Carpenter (11-3) surrendered four runs and nine hits in eight innings.

Closer Ryan Franklin earned his 25th save.

Pittsburgh's Garrett Jones and Ryan Duomit hit solo homers.

Delwyn Young had two hits and one RBI.

MLB: St. Louis 4, Houston 3

Sat, 08/01/2009 - 10:23 by preet_20

St. Louis, July 31: Matt Holliday doubled home the tying run in the eighth and then scored on a single by Rick Ankiel Friday, boosting St. Louis to a 4-3 victory over Houston

The Cardinals jumped a half game in front of the Chicago Cubs for the lead in the National League Central.

St. Louis had already come from one run behind twice in the game before doing it again in the eighth.

With one out, Alberto Arias (2-1) hit Albert Pujols with a pitch and Pujols promptly scored on Holliday's double -- the last of his four hits. Since being obtained by the Cardinals from Oakland last week, Holliday is batting .586.

Holliday moved to third on a wild pitch and put the Cardinals in front when Ankiel singled to left.

MLB: LA Dodgers 5, St. Louis 3

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 10:11 by preet_20

St. Louis, July 30: Matt Kemp delivered a two-run, two-out single in the 10th inning Thursday that brought the Los Angeles Dodgers a 5-3 win over St. Louis.

The Dodgers halted a season-worst, four-game losing streak.

Los Angeles took a 3-2 lead in the seventh on a two-run double by Rafael Furcal, but the Cardinals tied it in the bottom of the inning on a homer by Rick Ankiel.

Ankiel, however, struck out with the bases loaded in the eighth to end a St. Louis threat.

Ryan Franklin began his second inning of work in the 10th, but was relieved by Dennys Reyes with nobody on and one out.

Reyes (0-2) promptly walked Andre Ethier and Casey Blake followed with a single.

MLB: Houston 4, St. Louis 3

Thu, 07/23/2009 - 10:36 by surajdogra

Houston, July 22: Miguel Tejada singled home Jeff Keppinger from second with two out in the ninth Wednesday, rallying Houston to a 3-2 victory over St. Louis.

The Astros scored twice in the ninth to further tighten the race in the National League Central. The Cardinals had their division lead reduced to a half game over the Chicago Cubs, who recorded a 10-5 win over Philadelphia earlier in the day.

Houston is only one game behind the Cardinals and Milwaukee, despite losing Wednesday, is only 2 1/2 games off the lead.

Houston managed eight hits in eight innings against starter Chris Carpenter, but still faced a 3-2 deficit.

MLB: St. Louis 4, Chicago Cubs 2

Mon, 07/13/2009 - 10:03 by preet_20

Chicago, July 13: Ryan Ludwick hit a a pair of two-run home runs Sunday to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-2 win in the nightcap of a doubleheader with the Chicago Cubs.

The Cubs took the opener 7-3 behind a six-inning effort by starter Carlos Zambrano, who also contributed a solo homer to go along with a three-run homer by Micah Hoffpauir.

Cardinals' starter Adam Wainwright (10-5) got the win in the second game, allowing two runs on seven hits with three walks and five strikeouts. Wainwright also had two hits for St. Louis, which salvaged a split of the four-game series with the Cubs and heads into the All-Star break with a 2 1/2 game lead over Milwaukee in the NL Central.

MLB: St. Louis 4, Detroit 3

Thu, 06/18/2009 - 12:46 by preet_20

St. Louis, June 17: Ryan Franklin finished off a solid effort by the St. Louis bullpen Wednesday that allowed the Cardinals to edge Detroit 4-3.

Franklin was the last of four St. Louis relievers, who combined to give up a run on three hits over 3 2/3 innings. He picked up his 16th save and preserved the inter-league win for Todd Wellemeyer (6-6).

Wellemeyer lasted 5 1/3 innings while giving up six hits -- two of them solo homers by Curtis Granderson.

Colby Rasmus twice gave St. Louis the lead with a run-scoring single in the third and an RBI triple in the fifth.

Ryan Ludwick drew a bases-loaded walk in the seventh, giving St. Louis an insurance run that turned out to be the game-winner.