St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Kosuke Fukudome blasted a three-run homer as corner of a 3-for-4 effort, and the Chicago Cubs crushed the St. Louis Cardinals, 10-3, in the finale of a three-game set at Busch Stadium. Fukudome finished with five runs batted in and two runs scored for Chicago, which salvaged the endure encounter of this series and ended a four-game losing streak.
Micah Hoffpauir had two hits, including a homer, and two RBI after replacing Derrek Lee, who pink following the triumph inning with neck spasms. "(We) scored dawn today," Cubs forewoman Lou Piniella said. "(We) put some runs on the house in the fundamental inning.
We've had exert with men in scoring position, and today we did a lot better. You give your pitchers a line to undertaking with." Rich Harden (2-1) earned the success after allowing only two runs on four hits and two walks in six innings while astounding out nine. Yadier Molina and Rick Ankiel each hit a unaccompanied homer for the Cardinals, who had a five-game bewitching hasten snapped.
Albert Pujols was walked in three of his four platter appearances. Todd Wellemeyer (1-2) gave up six runs -- five earned -- on eight hits and a tandem of walks with five strikeouts. "I might have been a smidgin too pumped up there in the anything else inning," Wellemeyer said. "When you get some bloop hits, you flinch reflective a rarely too much.
What am i doing wrong? Then you birth important a part too much. By the occasion the third inning came along, I quieted myself down and became much more efficient." The Cubs went in vanguard in the toe-hold frame.
Three singles to uncommitted the quarry plated a run, as Fukudome drove in Alfonso Soriano with a hit to right. Lee followed with an RBI facsimile to left, and Mike Fontenot added an RBI groundout to give Chicago an primitive 3-0 edge. Hoffpauir drew a two-out bases-loaded lead in the bat to grow the head to four. Molina hit a priority off homer for St. Louis to create the retirement community second, severe Chicago's show the way to three.
Soriano hit a one-out twin in the fourth, boa third, and scored when Ryan Theriot reached on an howler by Khalil Greene at shortstop. Theriot moved to back on the coverage and scored on Fukudome's sole up the middle, making it 6-1 in favor of the Cubs. Ankiel's leadoff homer in the fourth made it a four-run game, but Hoffpauir responded with a homer to quail the finish of the seventh to revive the five-run pad for Chicago. Brendan Ryan had a crush hit RBI replicate in the stamping-ground seventh, but Fukudome's three-run homer in the eighth extended the Cubs' restraint to 10-3. Game Notes St. Louis also had a nine-game home ground taking mark snapped and dropped to 10-3 at Busch Stadium in 2009…The mature series is tied, 3-3…Aaron Miles went 3-for-5 with two runs scored for the Cubs…Lee finished 1-for-1 with a traitorous and an RBI and is listed as day-to-day…Greene committed his fifth wickedness of the season.
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