Ryan Franklin once again gave up a home run in the 9th inning and the St. Louis Cardinals lost.  On Thursday night, Ryan Braun hit a two run home run to put the Brewers up by one and they went on to beat the Cardinals 4-3.  The Cardinals were swept in the four game series against the Brewers.  It was definitely not the way the Cards wanted to play that is for sure.

Franklin took the loss and is now 3-4.  Cardinals starting pitcher Todd Wellemeyer threw the first five innings of the game while giving up five hits and two runs.  Wellemeyer had some control issues as he gave up five walks and only struck out two batters.

Rick Ankiel had a rbi single in the first inning and then Albert Pujols had a rbi sac fly in the third inning.  The Cardinals third run of the game came in the fourth inning when Wellemeyer single to deep right and Ryan Ludwick scored on an error by Corey Hart.

So now the Cardinals are four games behind the league leading Chicago Cubs and three games behind the MIlwaukee Brewers.  They need to get back on track before they find themselves down six or seven games after this weekend.  Cardinals Baseball Blog