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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
St. Louis 3, Texas 2
When: 8:05 PM ET, Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 49°
Umpires: Home - Jerry Layne, 1B - Greg Gibson, 2B - Alfonso Marquez, 3B - Ron Kulpa, LF - Ted Barrett, RF - Gary Cederstrom
Attendance: 46406

Pinch hitter Allen Craig delivered the go-ahead single and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the visiting Texas Rangers 3-2 in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday night.

Craig’s sixth-inning single off Alexi Ogando fell in front of a sliding Nelson Cruz to drive home David Freese and snap a 2-2 tie.

Chris Carpenter (1-0) allowed two runs and five hits in six innings, and five St. Louis relievers combined for three innings of one-hit relief. Jason Motte worked a perfect ninth for his fifth save of the postseason.

Lance Berkman added a two-run single for St. Louis, which will host Game 2 of the best-of-seven series Thursday.

Freese hit a one-out double off C.J. Wilson (0-1) in the sixth and moved to third on a wild pitch. Wilson walked Nick Punto with two outs and was replaced by Ogando.

Craig was called on to hit for Carpenter (1-0) and smacked the line single to right to put the Cardinals ahead.

St. Louis took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth when Albert Pujols was hit by a pitch, Matt Holliday doubled to right and Berkman drove them both in with a chopping single down the right-field line.

Texas tied the contest in the fifth when Adrian Beltre singled and Mike Napoli hit a two-run blast to right field.

Wilson gave up three runs and four hits and walked six in 5 2/3 innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Texas   St. Louis
C.J. Wilson Player Chris Carpenter
Loss W/L Win
5.2 IP 6.0
4 Strikeouts 4
4 Hits 5
4.76 ERA 3.00
Hitting
Texas   St. Louis
Adrian BeltrePlayer Lance Berkman
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 2
0 HR 0
3 TB 2
.500 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Texas 6 1 10 .200 9 7 2 2 0 0
St. Louis 6 0 8 .231 16 5 3 6 0 0