Pittsburgh 14, St. Louis 5
When: 8:15 PM ET, Friday, June 29, 2012
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature:
101°
Umpires:
Home -
Ron Kulpa, 1B -
D.J. Reyburn, 2B -
Jim Wolf, 3B -
Derryl Cousins
Attendance:
45382
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Pirates 14, Cardinals 5: Clint Barmes, Alex Presley and Garrett Jones homered in a four-run sixth as the visiting Pirates took the opener of a key NL Central showdown.
The contest was tied 5-5 when Barmes and Presley opened the inning with consecutive solo shots off a tiring Adam Wainwright (6-8). Jones capped the scoring with his 10th homer, a two-run blast off reliever Eduardo Sanchez.
Pittsburgh won its third straight and has scored 30 runs in the streak. Andrew McCutchen went 4-for-5 with a three-run homer and four runs scored.
Opening a season-high 10-game homestand, St. Louis dropped its second straight after a five-game win streak. The defeat dropped the Cardinals 1 1/2 games behind the Pirates for second place in the division.
The Cardinals scored four in the third, highlighted by Allen Craig’s 408-foot, three-run homer, to lead 5-2. Pittsburgh tied it in the fifth when Pedro Alvarez cleared the bases with a double into the right-field corner. Alvarez finished with four RBIs after drawing a bases-loaded walk in the eighth.
Kevin Correia (4-6) picked up the win despite allowing five runs in five innings.
Neil Walker’s two-run single gave Pittsburgh the first-inning lead. Carlos Beltran tied it 2-2 with a third-inning RBI single, the 2000th hit of his career. Craig followed with his 10th homer.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Pittsburgh improved to 3-4 this season against St. Louis. … Barmes was hitting .196 at the time of his tie-breaking homer. … It was 105 degrees at first pitch.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Pittsburgh
|
19 |
4 |
33 |
.413 |
21 |
8 |
14 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| St. Louis
|
7 |
1 |
11 |
.206 |
9 |
8 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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