Arizona 7, St. Louis 6
When: 8:15 PM ET, Friday, July 8, 2011
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature:
86°
Umpires:
Home -
Ed Rapuano, 1B -
Brian O'Nora, 2B -
Alfonso Marquez, 3B -
Ed Hickox
Attendance:
37160
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Kelly Johnson hit a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning and the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks held on for a 7-6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.
Chris Young had a two-run triple and Miguel Montero added an RBI single for Arizona, which has won four of five.
Lance Berkman hit his National League-leading 24th home run and Matt Holliday homered for the fourth time in as many games, but the Cardinals fell to 0-3 since Albert Pujols’ early return from a broken left wrist. Pujols, who had a sacrifice fly, went 0-for-3 and is 1-for-12 since his return.
Johnson put Arizona ahead for good in the seventh when he drilled a 2-2 breaking ball from Kyle Lohse (8-6) over the right field wall and into the Cardinals’ bullpen to make it 7-3.
Holliday led off the eighth with a homer and Daniel Descalso’s two-run double cut the lead to 7-6.
St. Louis threatened in the ninth, but David Hernandez got pinch-hitter Jon Jay to ground out with the tying run on second for his seventh save in nine chances. Hernandez saved it for Ian Kennedy (9-3), who allowed three runs and five hits in six innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Arizona |
|
St. Louis |
|
Ian Kennedy
|
Player |
Kyle Lohse
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
6.0 |
IP |
6.2 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
3 |
|
6 |
Hits |
7 |
|
4.50 |
ERA |
9.45 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Arizona
|
9 |
1 |
15 |
.250 |
9 |
5 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
| St. Louis
|
11 |
2 |
20 |
.289 |
21 |
7 |
6 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
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