In the opening of a big four game series, the St. Louis Cardinals lost to the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 in 10 innings of action. The Cardinals were down 3-2 heading into the bottom of the 9th inning but the tied the game up to extend it into extra innings. However in the 11th inning, it was all about the Brewers as they pushed across three runs to take the victory.
Skip Schumaker had a rbi single in the 9th inning to tie the game for the Cardinals. The other two runs for the Cardinals came in the first inning when Troy Glaus doubled and Albert Pujols and Rick Ankiel both scored. That was it for the Cardinals at the plate as they just couldn’t push across many runs in the game.
Ryan Franklin gave up all three runs in the 11th inning to take the loss. Franklin gave up a home run to Bill Hall as the Brewers scored their first run in the inning. Jason Kendall then scored on a error by Aaron Miles and then J.J. Hardy singled to score Rickie Weeks. Earlier in the game Weeks hit a three run shot off of Joel Pineiro. Pineiro threw the first six innings but gave up ten hits and the three runs to get the no decesion.
The series is a big one but the Cards can’t get stressed out over one game. Just come right back out there on Tuesday and try to even up the series.
