Pujols helps Cards wallop Tigers
ST. LOUIS - Albert Pujols hit his fifth home run in five games - the longest homer at Busch Stadium this season - and Adam Wainwright worked seven strong innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals rout the Detroit Tigers and red-hot ace Justin Verlander, 11-2, last night.
ST. LOUIS - Albert Pujols hit his fifth home run in five games - the longest homer at Busch Stadium this season - and Adam Wainwright worked seven strong innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals rout the Detroit Tigers and red-hot ace Justin Verlander, 11-2, last night.
Pujols also drew his majorleague-leading 19th and 20th intentional walks in only semi-threatening situations before lining his 23d homer an estimated 446 feet over the left-field wall off Ryan Perry to start the sixth.
Chris Duncan followed with a 418-foot shot that gave the light-hitting Cardinals back-to-back homers for the first time all season.
Detroit 000 001 010– 2 8 3
St. Louis 400 142 00x – 11 14 1
Detroit AB R H BI Avg. St. Louis AB R H BI Avg.
Kelly lf 5 0 1 0 .273 Schumaker 2b 5 1 3 1 .284
Polanco 2b 5 0 1 0 .260 Rasmus cf 5 0 1 0 .261
Ordonez rf 3 0 0 0 .272 Pujols 1b 2 2 1 1 .326
Perry p 0 0 0 0 --- T.Greene ss 1 0 0 0 .258
b-Thames ph 1 0 0 0 .302 Duncan lf 5 3 3 1 .258
Lyon p 0 0 0 0 --- Ankiel rf 4 1 1 0 .247
Mi.Cabrera 1b 3 1 2 1 .325 Y.Molina c-1b 3 2 2 2 .270
Sardinha c 0 0 0 0 .097 Thurston 3b 3 1 1 2 .240
Granderson cf 3 0 0 0 .256 Wainwright p 3 1 1 0 .158
Inge 3b 4 1 1 1 .264 c-LaRue ph-c 1 0 0 0 .275
Laird c-1b 4 0 1 0 .220 Br.Ryan ss 3 0 1 3 .300
Santiago ss 4 0 1 0 .284 Walters p 0 0 0 0 .000
Verlander p 1 0 0 0 .000 Totals 35 11 14 10
a-J.Andersn ph 1 0 1 0 .256
N.Robertson p 0 0 0 0 ---
Raburn rf 2 0 0 0 .237
Totals 36 2 8 2
a-singled for Verlander in the 5th. b-struck out for Perry in the 7th. c-grounded out for Wainwright in the 7th. E: Ordonez (2), Santiago (4), Verlander (1), Schumaker (4). LOB: Detroit 9, St. Louis 5. 2B: Schumaker (12), Rasmus (15), Thurston (14), Wainwright (2), Br.Ryan (8). 3B: Kelly (1). HR: Inge (15), off Wainwright; Mi.Cabrera (12), off Walters; Pujols (23), off Perry; Duncan (5), off Perry. RBIs: Mi.Cabrera (40), Inge (42), Schumaker (19), Pujols (58), Duncan (29), Y.Molina 2 (21), Thurston 2 (18), Br.Ryan 3 (9). CS: Ankiel (1). S: Br.Ryan. RLSP: Detroit 4 (Inge 2, Ordonez 2); St. Louis 3 (Wainwright, Duncan, Rasmus). GI DP: Rasmus, Duncan. DP: Detroit 2 (Santiago, Polanco, Mi.Cabrera), (Santiago, Polanco, Laird).
Detroit walks (2): Mi.Cabrera, Granderson. St. Louis walks (4): Pujols 2, Y.Molina, Thurston. Detroit strikeouts (6): Kelly, Polanco, Thames, Mi.Cabrera, Laird, Raburn. St. Louis strikeouts (7): Schumaker, Rasmus 2, Pujols, Ankiel, Thurston, Wainwright.
Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Verlander (L) 4 8 5 5 2 4 73 3.39
N.Robertson 0 2 4 4 2 0 15 7.97
Perry 2 4 2 2 0 1 37 3.67
Lyon 2 0 0 0 0 2 22 4.22
St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Wainwright (W) 7 6 1 1 2 5 99 3.33
Walters 2 2 1 1 0 1 25 8.76
W: Wainwright, 7-4. L: Verlander, 7-3. N.Robertson pitched to 4 batters in the 5th. IR-S: Perry 3-3. IBB: off Verlander (Pujols, Pujols). WP: Wainwright. Balk: Verlander. Umpires: Home, Jerry Layne; first, Tony Randazzo; second, Chris Guccione; third, Mike Winters.
T: 2:33. A: 44,021 (43,975).
Rays 12, Rockies 4
DENVER - Evan Longoria, Carlos Pena, and Tampa Bay clobbered Colorado, snapping the Rockies' 11-game win streak.
Longoria, Pena, Kapler, Ben Zobrist, and B.J. Upton homered. Kapler and Zobrist finished a double shy of the cycle, and Upton was a triple short.
Tampa Bay 142 010 220 – 12 17 0
Colorado 010 020 001 – 4 8 1
Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Colorado AB R H BI Avg.
B.Upton cf 5 1 3 3 .226 Fowler cf 4 0 1 2 .255
Crawford lf 5 0 1 0 .314 Barmes 2b 5 0 2 1 .291
Longoria 3b 4 1 1 1 .304 Helton 1b 4 0 0 0 .312
C.Pena 1b 5 1 1 1 .239 Hawpe rf 3 1 2 0 .342
Zobrist 2b 5 3 3 1 .318 Tulowitzki ss 4 0 1 0 .241
Bartlett ss 4 2 2 1 .376 Stewart 3b 2 0 0 1 .224
Kapler rf 4 2 3 4 .227 Daley p 0 0 0 0 ---
Balfour p 0 0 0 0 --- Embree p 0 0 0 0 ---
b-Dillon ph 1 0 0 0 .348 c-Quintanilla ph 0 1 0 0 .208
Abreu p 0 0 0 0 --- C.Gonzalez lf 4 1 1 0 .194
Navarro c 5 1 2 1 .211 Iannetta c 2 1 0 0 .217
Niemann p 2 0 0 0 .000 De La Rosa p 0 0 0 0 .050
a-Burrell ph 1 0 0 0 .239 Fogg p 1 0 0 0 .000
J.Nelson p 0 0 0 0 --- R.Flores p 0 0 0 0 ---
Gross rf 1 1 1 0 .278 Atkins 3b 1 0 1 0 .208
Totals 42 12 17 12 Totals 30 4 8 4
a-struck out for Niemann in the 6th. b-grounded out for Balfour in the 9th. c-walked for Embree in the 9th. E: Hawpe (3). LOB: Tampa Bay 5, Colorado 7. 2B: B.Upton (12), Crawford (12), Bartlett (12), Navarro (9), Fowler (16), Hawpe 2 (23). 3B: Zobrist (4), Kapler (1). HR: Longoria (15), off De La Rosa; Kapler (4), off De La Rosa; C.Pena (21), off Fogg; Zobrist (14), off R.Flores; B.Upton (4), off Daley. RBIs: B.Upton 3 (18), Longoria (59), C.Pena (49), Zobrist (39), Bartlett (31), Kapler 4 (15), Navarro (20), Fowler 2 (17), Barmes (31), Stewart (34). SB: Tulowitzki (8). S: Fogg. SF: Bartlett, Fowler, Stewart. RLSP: Tampa Bay 3 (C.Pena, Crawford, Zobrist); Colorado 6 (Iannetta, Helton, Fowler, Tulowitzki, Barmes 2). RA: B.Upton, Longoria, C.Gonzalez. GIDP: Fowler, Helton. DP: Tampa Bay 2 (C.Pena, Bartlett, Niemann), (Zobrist, Bartlett, C.Pena).
Tampa Bay walk (1): Longoria.
Colorado walks (5): Hawpe, Quintanilla, Iannetta 2, Atkins.
Tampa Bay strikeouts (8): B.Upton, Crawford, C.Pena 3, Niemann 2, Burrell.
Colorado strikeouts (6): Barmes, Helton, Hawpe, Tulowitzki, C.Gonzalez, Iannetta.
Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Niemann (W) 5 5 3 3 2 2 96 4.21
J.Nelson 11/3 0 0 0 1 3 23 4.66
Balfour 12/3 1 0 0 1 1 23 5.46
Abreu 1 2 1 1 1 0 19 9.00
Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
De La Rosa (L) 21/3 8 7 7 1 4 62 5.81
Fogg 31/3 3 1 1 0 2 43 1.93
R.Flores 1 2 2 2 0 1 18 5.68
Daley 11/3 4 2 2 0 1 26 4.05
Embree 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 5.40
W: Niemann, 6-4. L: De La Rosa, 2-7.
IR-S: Balfour 1-0, R.Flores 1-0, Daley 1-1. WP: Niemann. Umpires: Home, John Hirschbeck; first, Wally Bell; second, Marty Foster; third, Chad Fairchild.
T: 3:08. A: 28,582 (50,449).