St. Louis 8, Arizona 2
When: 9:40 PM ET, Monday, April 11, 2011
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature:
78°
Umpires:
Home -
Jerry Layne, 1B -
Bob Davidson, 2B -
Hunter Wendelstedt, 3B -
Victor Carapazza
Attendance:
15746
By SportsDirect Inc.
Kyle McClellan pitched 5 2/3 solid innings and drove in a pair of runs as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals took the opener of a three-game set 8-2 over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday.
Lance Berkman homered twice and Skip Schumaker drove in a run for the Cardinals, won won back-to-back games for the first time this season.
McClellan (1-0) allowed one run and scattered seven hits to earn his first major league win as a starter. The righthander got his own support started in the third inning when he laced an RBI double to right-center to give St. Louis a 1-0 edge.
The Cardinals broke it open against Barry Enright (0-1) in the fourth with three runs on Schumaker’s RBI double, and run-scoring singles by McClellan and Ryan Theriot. St. Louis had a chance to turn that into an even bigger inning, but Albert Pujols flied out with the bases loaded for the third out.
Pujols finished 1-for-5 with a strikeout, and is batting .150.
The Cardinals put it away in the top of the ninth when Berkman hit a two-run shot and Jon Jay followed with a solo homer off Juan Gutierrez.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| St. Louis |
|
Arizona |
|
Kyle McClellan |
Player |
Barry Enright |
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
6.0 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
4 |
Strikeouts |
4 |
|
7 |
Hits |
9 |
|
1.50 |
ERA |
6.00 |
Hitting
| St. Louis |
|
Arizona |
|
Kyle McClellan | Player |
Justin Upton
|
|
2 |
Hits |
2 |
|
2 |
RBI |
0 |
|
0 |
HR |
0 |
|
3 |
TB |
3 |
|
.667 |
Avg |
.667 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| St. Louis
|
14 |
3 |
25 |
.350 |
16 |
7 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Arizona
|
8 |
0 |
11 |
.242 |
16 |
7 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
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