Aug. 21, 2007 - K.B's Daily St. Louis Cardinal Report

After losing two games to their rival team, the Chicago Cubs, and a rain delay the day before, it was time for the Cardinals to get back on track. It was yesterday that they played the final game of the series against the Cubs. The Cardinals started off good with Scott Rolen’s 2-RBI double in the first. And apparently the Cubs didn’t like that as they came back in the 2nd with back-to-back homeruns to tie the game 2-2. But the Cardinal aslo came back as they scored 2 more in the 3rd off another double by Scott Rolen. But once again, (can you guess what happened?) the Cubs came back with a run in the bottom of the 3rf but the Cardinals still had the lead, 4-3, and they were sure now not to loose it again.  In the 5th, Albert Pujols hit his 28th homerun of the year making the score 5-3. But to follow that up, Derrick Lee hit a homerun to make the score 4-5. But in the 7th, Rick Ankiel made the game all worth it as he hit his 4th homerun f the year. The score was 6-4 and the Cardinals pitching held the Cubs for the rest of the game as they win and are now only 3 games behind in the central division.

Cardinals starter Joel Piniero didn’t have his best outing of the year but it was good enough. He went 5 innings on 7 hits and 3 runs. Troy Percival pitched 0.1 innings and allowed a hit –but that hit was a homerun. Randy Flores came in allowed a hit but did not record an out. Ryan Franklin came in for 1.2 innings and did all of it hitless. Jason Isringhausen came in to close the game done and did in the 2 innings he pitched and which allowed 1 hit. Piniero gets his 4th win and Izzy gets his 23 save.

Hitting was not incredible as the Cardinals only had 8 hits total. Rick Ankiel had another career night as he went 2 for 5 with a double, a run scored and a RBI. Albert Pujols went 1 for 3 with a homerun, 2 runs scored, a RBI and 2 walks. Scott Rolen went 3 for 4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBIs.

Today the Cardinals will start a bew series against the Florida Marlins at 7;10 CT. Adam Wainwright (11-9 4.01 ERA) will start for the Cards and Daniel Barone (0-1 6.23 ERA) for the Fish.  

K.B. is a reporter and founder of the IABW.

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