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
By SportsDirect Inc.
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 Beltre | Player |
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 |
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