St. Louis 6, Oakland 4
When: 8:15 PM ET, Friday, June 18, 2010
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature:
83°
Umpires:
Home -
Angel Hernandez, 1B -
Joe West, 2B -
Dan Bellino, 3B -
Rob Drake
Attendance:
40083
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Chris Carpenter overcame a shaky second inning and Skip Schumaker drove in the go-ahead run with a ground-rule double in the seventh, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-4 win over the Oakland A's on Friday night.
Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer in the first and finished with three hits and three RBIs.
Oakland scored all of its runs in the second off Carpenter. Rajai Davis, who went 4-for-5, had an RBI single. Connor Jackson, recently acquired in a trade with Arizona, put the A's ahead with a two-run double, before Kurt Suzuki's RBI single made it a 4-2 game.
Carpenter (8-1) allowed four runs and 10 hits while striking out five and walking two.
Run-scoring singles by Holliday and Albert Pujols tied the game in the fifth.
St. Louis took the lead for good in the seventh against reliever Brad Ziegler (2-4). Schumaker's double broke the tie before Ryan Ludwick's RBI single made it 6-4.
Ryan Franklin pitched the ninth for his 13th save in 14 chances.
Oakland starter Vin Mazzaro allowed four runs in five innings in the no-decision.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Oakland |
|
St. Louis |
|
Vin Mazzaro |
Player |
Chris Carpenter
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
Win |
|
5.0 |
IP |
7.0 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
6 |
Hits |
10 |
|
7.20 |
ERA |
5.14 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Oakland
|
10 |
0 |
13 |
.286 |
14 |
6 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| St. Louis
|
9 |
1 |
14 |
.290 |
11 |
8 |
6 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
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