St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 2
When: 12:35 PM ET, Thursday, September 23, 2010
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
81°
Umpires:
Home -
James Hoye, 1B -
Lazaro Diaz, 2B -
Wally Bell, 3B -
John Hirschbeck
Attendance:
15802
By SportsDirect Inc.
Albert Pujols hit his 40th and 41st homers of the season and Dan Descalso added three hits and two RBIs as the St. Louis Cardinals avoided a sweep with a 9-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday.
Matt Holliday added an RBI and scored two runs and Nick Stavinoha doubled in a run for the Cardinals, who snapped a three-game slide and improved to just 5-20 against sub-.500 teams since August 11.
After failing to generate much offense against Paul Maholm and Charlie Morton in the first two games of the series, Pujols sparked a four-run rally against Brian Burres (3-4) with his 40th blast of the season in the third - a two-run shot. Stavinoha added his RBI double and Descalso doubled in a run later in the frame.
St. Louis kept the pressure on Burres in the fourth, adding two more runs on Holliday’s RBI single and stealing one when Pujols scored on a wild pitch.
The Cardinals added another run in the fifth and two more in the sixth, including Pujols’ solo blast.
Jeff Suppan (2-7) kept it together for St. Louis on the mound, allowing one run on four hits while walking two and striking out two in five innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| St. Louis |
|
Pittsburgh |
|
Jeff Suppan |
Player |
Brian Burres |
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
5.0 |
IP |
2.1 |
|
2 |
Strikeouts |
1 |
|
4 |
Hits |
6 |
|
1.80 |
ERA |
15.43 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| St. Louis
|
15 |
2 |
24 |
.375 |
20 |
3 |
8 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
| Pittsburgh
|
8 |
0 |
9 |
.258 |
15 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
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