Albert Pujols brough his big bats to the game against the Houston Astros on Wednesday night and he used them to hit two homeruns, and also a RBI single as they Cardinals went onto beat the Astros 6-4.  Pujoles who had got into a heated argument with Astros pitcher Bradon Backe about Pujols slide in Tuesday’s night game, said he played with some emotion, but that wasn’t why he hit better.  He says video tapes and making a few adjustments helped him out.

Rick Ankiel had two RBI’s for the Cardinals and Troy Glaus chipped in one.  Nice night for the big three hitters in the Cardinals lineup.

Braden Looper got the win for the Cardinals as he moves to 2-0 on the season.  Looper pitched 5.2 innings and allowed five hits and three earned runs.  Randy Flores gave up an unearned run in the 7th inning as well.

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The St. Louis Cardinals had a scare in the late innings, but they were able to hold off the Washington Nationals for a 5-4 victory that improved the Cardinals record to 3-1.

Braden Looper pitched six strong innings only giving up five hits and one earned run.  But in the seventh inning, Russ Springer game into the ballgame and gave up three hits including a three run homerun to Christian Guzman that cut the lead to one.  Luckily for Springer and the Cardinals, the Nationals were not able to get another run to tie the game.

Rick Ankiel picked up two more RBI’s and Yadier Molina, Aaron Miles, and Looper both had one each.

The Cardinals will try for another victory over the Nationals on Saturday.

The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Colorado Rockies on Thursday by the score of 3-0.  Another great job by the pitching staff and some timely hitting my Rick Ankiel and company proved to be to much for the Rockies.

Albert Pujols batter. 500, and Ankiel .364 on the opening series to really help at the plate.  If Pujols, Ankiel, and Troy Glaus can hit the ball good this season I like the Cardinals chances in the Central Division.

Brad Thompson pitched 6.2 innings on Thursday as he gave up six hits and zero runs.  Great performance today by Mr. Thompson.  The bullpen also did a good job and Jason Isringhausen picked up his first save of the season.

The St. Louis Cardinals didn’t want to goto salary arbitration with outfielder Rick Ankiel so they signed him to a new one year contract that will be worth $900,000.  Pretty good deal for Ankiel for my opinion.   He will battle it out for a starting spot out in the outfield during spring training.

Does he have the stamina to play everyday out the outfield is a question that I have to ask however.  I think he should play around 70% of the time and the be a pitch hitter.  It will be interesting to see how manager Tony LaRussa chooses to use Ankiel.

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