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RECORD: 77-66 |
HITTING: 2nd |
PITCHING: 7th |
FIELDING: 2nd |
PREVIOUS GAME ( 9/07): FLA W 3-1 - W: Wainwright, L: Johnson |
TODAYS GAME: Off Day
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WED: CHI 7:15 (FSN) - Ted Lilly @ Braden Looper |
THU: CHI 7:15 (FSN) - Rich Harden @ Todd Wellemeyer |
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Pujols' pop backs Wainwright's win
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(MLB.com) If Josh Johnson had known the history, he might not have thrown a strike to Albert Pujols all afternoon.
It's not that Pujols is scalding hot, though he is. It's not that the Cardinals gave out Pujols bobbleheads, though they did. It's that Sunday was the annual Buddy Walk Day at Busch Stadium, benefiting the Down Syndrome Association of Greater St. Louis. And that, more than any other day of the year, is Pujols' day.
The slugger did it once again on Sunday, hitting a two-run first-inning homer that propelled Adam Wainwright and the Cardinals to a 3-1 win over Johnson and the Marlins in the final 2008 meeting between the two teams. Josh Phelps added an RBI pinch-single for St. Louis, which has won back-to-back games after losing six out of seven.
Thanks to a loss by the Brewers, the Cardinals pulled back within five games of Milwaukee in the chase for the National League Wild Card. St. Louis has 19 games remaining in the regular season.
In seven career appearances on Buddy Walk Day, Pujols is 11-for-28 (.393) with six home runs. The Cardinals are 6-1 in those games, and on the one Buddy Walk Day in which he didn't play, they lost. Pujols' daughter, Isabella, has Down Syndrome, making it an extremely ... [ More ]
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Pujols does it all as Cards top Marlins
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(MLB.com) The Marlins pitched to Albert Pujols in the first inning, and that didn't work. So they pitched around him in the sixth inning, and that didn't work either.
Pujols hit a two-run homer, walked and scored twice as the Cardinals beat Florida, 5-3, at Busch Stadium on Saturday night. The National League batting leader and MVP candidate kept up an eye-popping surge that's now been going on for three full weeks.
The slugger even showed his mettle on the bases, taking a key extra base that ... [ More ]
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Looper's dominance wasted vs. Marlins
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(MLB.com) The simplest definition of a team slump in baseball is also, often, the truest. And it's surely the one that applies to the sliding Cardinals: When you pitch, you don't hit, and when you hit, you don't pitch.
Ricky Nolasco and the Marlins bullpen stifled the Cardinals over 11 innings, and the St. Louis bullpen and defense scuffled in the late going, as the Cards lost to Florida, 4-1, at Busch Stadium on Friday night.
St. Louis now trails Wild Card-leading Milwaukee by six games. The ... [ More ]
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