While taking down the San Francisco Giants' bullpen, the St. Louis Cardinals got another positive sign from their former closer. Light-hitting Skip Schumaker capped a three-run eighth with a go-ahead infield hit after Ryan Franklin kept it close in the top half of the inning by striking out the side, leading St.
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For the second time this month, Albert Pujols is starting for the St. Louis Cardinals at third base. Anything to help manager Tony La Russa get another productive bat in there. La Russa's lineup on Tuesday night against the San Francisco Giants leaned heavily to offense and got Jon Jay, batting .390 his last 14 games and .343 overall, back into the mix.
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The best off-season move for the Seattle Mariners seems to be their trade for Brendan Ryan. Acquiring the shortstop from the St. Louis Cardinals at such an inexpensive prices seems to have been a great move that has gone under the radar for most of baseball.
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The San Francisco Giants might not be scoring a whole lot of runs lately, but the team did get a slam from Andres Torres en route to a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on May 30. Plus, Brandon Crawford smacked a grand slam a few days earlier.
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Kyle McClellan suffered through the worst outing of his first year in the St. Louis Cardinals' rotation. A bad landing after an early pitch may have been a contributing factor. St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said McClellan (6-2) tweaked his hip in the first inning of a 7-3 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Monday.
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Andres Torres was so excited about his first career grand slam, he nearly passed Madison Bumgarner on the way to second base. Bumgarner stuck out an arm for the stop sign and Torres applied the brakes in time, giving the National League's worst offense a big boost in the San Francisco Giants' 7-3 victory over the St.
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Matt Holliday has returned to the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup after missing six starts with a left quadriceps injury. Holliday was batting .347, second in the National League behind teammate Lance Berkman's .354 average, entering Monday's game against the San Francisco Giants. The Cardinals were 4-2 without their cleanup hitter, winning series at San Diego and Colorado.
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Jhoulys Chacin finished better than he started. By then, the damage was done. Chacin was jolted for three runs in the first inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals withstood Colorado's ninth-inning rally to beat the Rockies 4-3 Sunday. "The way it started was pitches elevated in the strike zone," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said of Chacin.
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St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday is about to return from missing a week's worth of starts due to a recurrence of a left quadriceps strain. But Holliday hardly could have done more than his replacement, Jon Jay.
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The Colorado Rockies have been busy making changes. Before they lost 4-3 to the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday, their ninth loss in the past 12 games, they made another move, recalling infielder Chris Nelson from Class AAA Colorado Springs and designating infielder Alfredo Amezaga…
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