Loss to Cubs is reflection of Cards' season
Cards-Cubs game pitch SaturdayEdwin Jackson
• HR (9-8, 4.04)
This will be the hard-throwing right-hander's start the fifth for the Cardinals and is 2-1 with a 4.62 ERA since the trade deadline. In two previous starts at Wrigley, Jackson is 1-1 with a 10.80 ERA. He is 0-6 with two or less short of support.
Matt Garza
• HR (5-9, 3.80)
In his May start against the Cardinals at Wrigley right-hander struck out seven and allowed one run on three hits. Garza was the centerpiece of the Cubs offseason, "acquired from Tampa Bay.He is 1-1 with 7.80 ERA in his career vs. Cardinals.
Derrick Goold
CHICAGO • The Cardinals have played only one game Friday afternoon. They played their season.
Trends that afflict a brilliant team, but in low resolution were again revealed in a wrenching 5-4, 10-inning loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
A platoon that built the first two three-point leads his offense disappear along its seams exposed pitch. With the need to revive suddenly clear to everyone in a quiet clubhouse, the Cardinals found themselves trying to explain the difficult truths.
"We must win all our matches. It's hard to hear, but it's true. We need to win 'em all," offered the third baseman David Freese, who helped a fourth inning home along cap the Cardinals' scoring two runs after catcher Yadier Molina opened with a throw of two run-off Cubs starter Randy Wells.
The Cardinals managed three points in a three-run second inning and took a 4-1 lead when Wells reached for Freese hit his fourth team in four sets.From there, the Cubs rallied for single runs in four innings while the Cardinals had to settle for only one eighth inning that preceded a failed robbery attempt.
"Bottom line: We need to win games like that, do not lose," said right fielder Lance Berkman.
Bottom line: The Cardinals have only 37 games to bring something more than a series of four consecutive wins, which is the level this season. Meanwhile, the division leading Milwaukee won again Friday, is on a 20-3 tear and led the Redbirds by 7 1 / 2 games.
Manager Tony La Russa is not ready to give up his mantra to win the series.But the practice is more for psychological reasons than those of mathematics.
"What does it do to say that we have to win 12 in a row or something? It is like telling a hitter, he needs to get six hits in two days, "La Russa said." You look like we had the chance to win twice in a row now (after the victory Wednesday). It did not happen. So we start something tomorrow.
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Kroker managed to get through the ninth inning; Stock led off the 10th with a double; pinch-runner Christian Summers was bunted over to third; and a squeeze bunt by Jeff McNeil brought home what proved to be the winning run.
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Chinese Taipei's players love the home run just as much as their Laredo counterparts, but the Asia-Pacific Zone champions are built on pitching, defense and small ball. Chinese Taipei wins by being fundamentally sound and advancing runners with bunts
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