Oct. 2, 2007 - K.B's Final Daily St. Louis Cardinal Report for 2007

The Cardinals played their season finally on Sunday. Coming into the game, the Cardinals had won 4 games in a row, which they had only done a few times all year long. The game was a strange one before it started. The Cardinals did not have a starting pitcher starting. Instead, Troy Percival made his first Major League start.  It was from there on a bullpen game. A total of 10 different pitcher pitched in the game. The Cardinals were able to score in the 2nd inning off of Jim Edmonds RBI single and again in the 4th on Scott Spiezio’s solo shot to right to make the score 2-0. Pittsburgh was able to scrap up a run in the 5th to cut the lead in half. But the Cardinals came back hard on them by scoring 4 runs in the 6th by playing small ball to make the score 6-1. But the Pirates did not give up. They got 3 runs in the 7th and in the 9th, Xavier Nady singled in a run, but Jason Isringhausen stopped them from getting any further runs and also let the Cardinals end the season on a 5 game winning streak.

Cardinals starter Troy Percival went 1 inning on 1 hit. Kip Wells pitched 3 innings on 2 hits. Braden Looper pitched 0.1 innings and allowed 2 hits and a run. Brian Falkenborg and Tyler Johnson pitched 0.1 scoreless innings. Russ Springer pitched 1 inning on a hit. Ryan Franklin ran into trouble as he allowed 3 hits on 3 runs in 0.1 innings. Randy Flores pitched 0.1 innings on 1 hit. Kelvin Jimenez pitched an inning on 1 hit and also set up the Closer Jason Isringhausen who pitched 1.1 innings on 2 hits and 1 run. Wells get the win, his 7th of the year, and finishes the year with a not-so-impressive 7-17 record. Izzy gets his 32nd save at the end of another great year for him.

The Cardinals only had a total of 11 hits compared to the Pirates 13 hits. Scip Schumaker almost had half of those hits himself as he went 5 for 5 with a double and 2 RBIs. Ryan Ludwick went 1 for 4 with a run scored. Brendan Ryan went 1 for 2 with a run scored and a RBI. And Scott Spiezio went 2 for 3 with a homerun, 3 runs scored, a RBI, and a walk.

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