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St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) (Jeff Roberson - AP) |
The Milwaukee Brewers swept the two game mini-series at Busch Stadium in Missouri, winning 3-2 in back to back appearances. The regular season battle between these two National League central teams is now tied 6-6 with only a single three game deciding series left in mid September. The Brew crew gives St. Louis there fourth straight loss. Cy young candidate, Adam Wainwright pitches 7 full 7k's and 3 earned, but he picks up his only home loss of the season, going to 11 and 1 on the year. Milwaukee's Randy Wolf out duels Cards ace Wainwright, he is now in double figures in wins on the year. Going into the ninth, closer John Axford worked with a 3-0 lead, but with the heart of the cardinals order to face. Pujols and Holliday with back to back doubles giving Larussa's crew hope. Next play on ground ball to first Fielder botches it and Holliday scores. The big moment 3-2 Brewers, bases jacked with Brendan Ryan at the dish. All time saves leader Trevor Hoffman get the much needed swinging strikeout for the win. After the sweep this send the Cards back 3 games after the Reds sweep the Marlins at home, with not many games left in the season St. Louis will have to bring up the bats to back up Dave Duncan's veteran pitching staff. The Cardinals will try to get rejuvenated on a day off before having the San Francisco Giants come to town. The series will be started off by newly added starter Jake Westbrook, I think this addition by Tony Larussa will help out the squad by added another premier starter to order. Westbrook's experience and the power of the cardinals lineup should be able to come out with a series win against the 2nd place Giants this weekend. I think the cards should take 2 of 3 from San Fran. ending there homestand, but we shall see starting Friday when they face-off against 4-4 Bumgarner and the slumping the giants. With three games to gain of Cincinnati, St. Louis needs all the wins they can get.
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