Sep. 8, 2007 - K.B.'s Daily St. Louis Cardinals report

As the Cardinals headed into yesterday’s game, they knew they were going to play a tough one against the team with the 2nd best record in the NL, the Arizona Diamondbacks. They were also facing the 2006 Cy Young, Brandon Webb, so they needed to score some runs if they wanted to win. The Cardinals had a single and a walk in the 1st inning but were unable to run it into any runs. The Diamonds backs in the 1st had a reached base on a error and a single but like the Cardinals, they did no score. In the bottom of the first, Arizona scored a run, putting the Cardinals behind. But in the 4th, Jim Edmonds hit his 10th homerun of the year, tying the game. And in the 6th, Aaron Miles scored off of Albert Pujols’ RBI single. So the Cardinals had the lead. But bad for the Cardinals, Arizona scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 6th, meaning that the score was 2-3, Arizona. The Cardinals had a hit in the 7th, 8th and 9th, but was not enough for the Cardinals to score. Arizona had scored in the 8th off of Tony Clark’s homerun. So the Cardinals lost 42-4.

Cardinals start Adam Wainwright had a very respectable start as he went 6th innings on 6 hits and 3 runs, and 2 earned. Tyler Johnson pitched the 7th perfectly. Ryan Franklin pitched the 8th and had trouble as he allowed a homerun to Tony Clark. Wainwright gets his 10th loss of the year.

Offense was not great as the Cardinals only had 7 hits.  Rick Ankiel had a hit. Albert Pujols had 2 hits and RBI. Jim Edmonds went 1 for 3 with a homerun and a walk. The #9 man, Aaron Miles, went 2 for 4 with an RBI.

Today the Cardinals will play Arizona again at 8:40 CT. Braden Looper (12-10 4.45 ERA) will start for the Cards and Micah Owings (6-8 4.75 ERA) for the D-backs.

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