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Game 1
Chris Carpenter and Carlos Zambrano faced off in the first game of a three game series featuring one of baseballs greatest rivals.
Carpenter pitched a solid seven innings. Well, solid in the fact that he got a win. Not sure if you would count 13 hits over seven innings as solid. But, he did get a win in a 6-4 game.
Carlos Zambrano looked good again giving up only four runs over seven innings. Ultimately the Cubs bats and bullpen couldn't get on the same page and Kerry Wood took the loss giving up two runs on two hits with three walks all in an inning of work.
Albert Pujols held the hot bat for the Cards going 4-5 with a run scored in the game.
Game 2
Matt Garza picked up his first road win of the season with five innings of one run baseball. Garza failed to top double digit strikeouts...but he came close, K'ing 7 Cardinal batters.
This was finally a game where all the hitters in the Cubs lineup were in the zone. The Cubs combined for a total of 17 hits. Five of those 17 hits were for extra bases (3 doubles, 2 triples). Koyie Hill went 2-4 with a double, triple and 2 rbi's. Starlin Castro was a perfect 4-4 with a triple and three RBI.
Over all the Cubs plated 11 of those 17 batters that reached on the way to a series tying 11-4 win over the Cardinals.
Game 3
Casey Coleman ... Sucks! He started strong with a few good showings, but since then it's been a bit downhill. This time the damage was only nine hits, six runs and four walks in four and a third innings. The killer was the second inning where Coleman gave up five runs.
The series had a total of thirty five runs scored...but only one home run was hit (Matt Holliday in this game). The Cardinals 4,5,6 hitters went a combined 8-14 with five runs and 2 RBI's to back Jamie Garcia.
Garcia improved to 5-0 by spreading nine hits over seven innings. He struck out four while only walking one and only allowed one run to score.
Jeff baker was the only Cubs batter to collect multiple hits, going 3-4 with the teams lone RBI
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