St. Louis 8, Houston 1
When: 2:05 PM ET, Sunday, May 6, 2012
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Jerry Meals, 1B -
Lance Barrett, 2B -
Paul Emmel, 3B -
Scott Barry
Attendance:
22288
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Cardinals 8, Astros 1: Tyler Greene hit two home runs and Adam Wainwright tossed seven strong innings as St. Louis snapped Houston's five-game winning streak.
Wainwright (2-3) won his fourth straight start against Houston, giving up one run on seven hits with one walk and seven strikeouts.
Allen Craig opened the scoring with a two-run blast in the first inning off J.A. Happ (2-2), who allowed six runs – five earned – on six hits and four walks over five innings.
St. Louis scored in each of the first four frames, with Greene’s two-run shot in the fourth giving the Cardinals a 6-0 lead.
Greene went 3-for-3 with four RBIs and a stolen base for the Cardinals, who ended their three-game losing streak. Craig went 2-for-4 and knocked in three runs.
Houston's Jordan Schafer went 0-for-4 and failed to get on base, snapping his streak of reaching safely at 25 straight games.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Cardinals have scored in the opening inning in each of their last six games. … Wainwright improved to 10-1 in 18 career appearances (12 starts) against Houston. … Brian Bogusevic robbed David Freese of a homer with a catch above the right field wall in the seventh inning. … Jose Altuve went 2-for-4 on his 22nd birthday. He leads the National League with 15 multi-hit games. … All of the Astros’ eight hits were singles.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| St. Louis
|
11 |
3 |
22 |
.297 |
14 |
7 |
8 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
| Houston
|
8 |
0 |
8 |
.242 |
15 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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