The St. Louis Cardinals and the Colorado Rockies split a four game series after the Cardinals lost to the Rockies by the score of 9-3 on on Thursday afternoon. The Cardinals are now up two games on the Chicago Cubs who are idle today.
Kyle Lohse took the loss for the Cardinals. Lohse gave up eight hits and seven hits in only four innings of action. Lohse now has a 4.87 era on the season. Loshe got off to a bad start as he gave up four quick runs to the Rockies in the first inning alone.
Russ Springer pitched one inning of scoreless relief before Mike Parisi pitched three inning and gave up five hits and two runs.
Ryan Ludwick hit his sixth and seventh home runs of the season in the game in the losing effort. Ludwick finished the game with two rbi while Yadier Molina had one rbi with a rbi single in the sixth inning.
