Game Thread #159 - ARI@STL - 09/25/08

[Coop]

Probables: Joel Pineiro vs LH Doug Davis @ 1PM.

Wainwright
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STLtoday - Cards beat D'backs

Hummel notes
STLtoday - Carp to see more doctors

MLB schedule
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FSN schedule
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Yahoo schedule
MLB - Scores & Schedule Thursday September 25, 2008 - Yahoo! Sports

Standings
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Won 82 Lost 76

Additions and corrections are appreciated.

[Coop]

Stats
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Lineups and a live boxscore should be here by game time.
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I am going out. I plan to watch the game out.

[Coop]

Top 1st: Arizona
- S. Drew flied out to left
- C. Young flied out to deep left center
- C. Jackson fouled out to catcher

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 0, St. Louis 0

Bottom 1st: St. Louis
- B. Barton grounded out to shortstop
*- F. Lopez singled to center
*- A. Pujols singled to left center, F. Lopez to third
- R. Ludwick popped out to shallow right
- T. Glaus walked, A. Pujols to second
*- J. LaRue singled to left center, F. Lopez and A. Pujols scored , T. Glaus to third
- B. Ryan popped out to left

2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 0, St. Louis 2

Top 2nd: Arizona
- A. Dunn homered to deep right
- J. Upton flied out to right
- M. Reynolds struck out swinging
- C. Snyder grounded out to shortstop

1 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 1, St. Louis 2

Bottom 2nd: St. Louis
- J. Pineiro struck out swinging
- C. Izturis singled to center
- B. Barton grounded into double play shortstop to second to first, C. Izturis out at second

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 1, St. Louis 2

Top 3rd: Arizona
- A. Ojeda flied out to center
- D. Davis struck out swinging
- S. Drew flied out to deep center

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 1, St. Louis 2

Bottom 3rd: St. Louis
- F. Lopez singled to center
- A. Pujols walked, F. Lopez to second
- R. Ludwick struck out swinging
- T. Glaus walked, F. Lopez to third, A. Pujols to second
- J. LaRue grounded into double play shortstop to second to first, T. Glaus out at second

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 1, St. Louis 2

Top 4th: Arizona
- C. Young grounded out to third
- C. Jackson lined out to deep center
>- A. Dunn walked
>- J. Upton doubled to deep left, A. Dunn to third
>- M. Reynolds singled to left, A. Dunn and J. Upton scored

2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 2

Bottom 4th: St. Louis
*- B. Ryan walked
- J. Pineiro sacrificed to first, B. Ryan to second
*- C. Izturis tripled to deep right, B. Ryan scored
- B. Barton struck out swinging
- F. Lopez grounded out to third

1 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 3

Top 5th: Arizona
- A. Ojeda grounded out to first
- D. Davis grounded out to pitcher
- S. Drew walked
- C. Young struck out swinging

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 3

Bottom 5th: St. Louis
- A. Pujols doubled to deep left
- R. Ludwick walked
- L. Rosales relieved D. Davis
- T. Glaus walked, A. Pujols to third, R. Ludwick to second
- J. LaRue struck out swinging
- A. Kennedy hit for B. Ryan
- A. Kennedy fouled out to third
- J. Pineiro struck out swinging

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 3

Top 6th: Arizona
- A. Kennedy in right field
- C. Jackson struck out swinging
- A. Dunn struck out swinging
- J. Upton grounded out to shortstop

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 3

Bottom 6th: St. Louis
*- C. Izturis walked
*- C. Izturis stole second
*- B. Barton reached on bunt single to third, C. Izturis to third

- T. Pena relieved T. Pena
- J. Salazar in right field
- J. Salazar in right field
- F. Lopez flied out to left
- A. Pujols hit sacrifice fly to center, C. Izturis scored , B. Barton to second
*- R. Ludwick singled to right, B. Barton scored
- T. Glaus singled to center, R. Ludwick to second
- J. LaRue flied out to left

2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 5

Top 7th: Arizona
- M. Reynolds struck out looking
- C. Snyder grounded out to shortstop
- A. Ojeda grounded out to first

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 5

Bottom 7th: St. Louis
*- A. Kennedy tripled to deep center
- A. Miles hit for J. Pineiro
*- A. Miles singled to center, A. Kennedy scored
- C. Izturis sacrificed to catcher, A. Miles to second
- S. Schumaker hit for B. Barton
*- S. Schumaker singled to shortstop, A. Miles to third

- Y. Petit relieved Y. Petit
- F. Lopez popped out to shortstop
*- A. Pujols homered to deep left, A. Miles and S. Schumaker scored
*- R. Ludwick homered to deep left
*- T. Glaus walked
- J. Peguero relieved Y. Petit
- J. LaRue popped out to right center

5 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 10

Top 8th: Arizona
- S. Schumaker in center field
- R. Ludwick in left field

*- J. Kinney relieved J. Pineiro

- J. Salazar walked
- J. Salazar to second on fielder's indifference
- S. Drew grounded out to first, J. Salazar to third
- C. Young popped out to shortstop
- C. Jackson grounded out to third

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 10

Bottom 8th: St. Louis
*- A. Kennedy walked
- J. Phelps hit for J. Kinney
- J. Phelps struck out looking
*- C. Izturis singled to right, A. Kennedy to second
- N. Stavinoha hit for S. Schumaker
- A. Kennedy to third, C. Izturis to second on passed ball *
- N. Stavinoha flied out to right
*- F. Lopez singled to right center, C. Izturis and A. Kennedy scored
- W. Ledezma relieved J. Peguero
- B. Barden hit for A. Pujols
- B. Barden grounded out to third

2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 12

Top 9th: Arizona
- N. Stavinoha in left field
- B. Barden at third
- R. Ludwick in center field
- M. Johnson catching
- J. LaRue at first

- C. Perez relieved J. Kinney

- A. Romero hit for A. Dunn
- A. Romero popped out to shortstop
- J. Whitesell hit for W. Ledezma
- J. Whitesell walked
- R. Hammock hit for M. Reynolds
- M. Reynolds singled to left, J. Whitesell to second
- J. D'Antona hit for C. Snyder
- J. D'Antona struck out swinging
- A. Ojeda flied out to center

0 runs, 1 hits, 0 errors
Arizona 3, St. Louis 12

Our middle infielders destroyed us all year and now that we are eliminated, nobody can get those slugs out.
Dump all of them! I hate them. Do it when it counts!
I hate Izturis as much as anybody who has ever played for the Cardinals.

[Ewttexas]

Win #83. Cards take it 12-3 and get 3 out of 4 from Arizona. Pineiro wis his last start of the year and evens his record at 7-7. Good relief pitching. Back to back dingers by Albert and Ludwick.
Back with the recap in a few minutes.

[Ewttexas]

The Cards had 17 hits. Albert had 3 with a double and his 35th HR. He has 112 RBIs. Izturis had 3 with a triple and Lopez had 3 singles. Ludwick had 2 with his 36th HR. He has 108 RBIs. 1 single each for Barton, Schu, Glaus (he also had 4 BBs), LaRue, Kennedy and Miles.
Pineiro is 7-7. He went 7 innings giving up 3 runs on 3 hits with 2 BBs and 7 Ks. Kinney went 1 inning with 1 BB. His ERA is still 0.00. Perez finished it with 1 inning giving up 1 hits with 1 BB and 1 K.
Now, we can watch the other games tonight knowing that we won. Tomorrow, it's Loop vs. Arroyo.
See ya later.

[AutobodyCAD]

Originally Posted by Coop

Our middle infielders destroyed us all year and now that we are eliminated, nobody can get those slugs out.
Dump all of them! I hate them. Do it when it counts!
I hate Izturis as much as anybody who has ever played for the Cardinals.

Don't get too worked up there, Coop. Cesar wasn't the best, but neither was he the worst middle infielder. Re-signing him for next year wouldn't excite me, but neither would I cry about it.

[BleacherBum593]

Hot in the bleachers today (no shade at all). Not that the pressure is off the Cards scored a ton of runs and knocked Arizona out of a chance to tie for the NL West.

Pujols' and Ludwick's HR's landed just feet from each other - just clearing the wall in left field. Back to Back. Glaus almost made it back to back to back when he drilled a deep fly ball that ended up foul down the left field line.

Announced attendance was 40K+, but they were lucky to have 20K at the game today.

Can the Cards run the table to end the season?