Cardinals beat Tigers 8-4

Brian Barton hit his second homerun of the season, and drove home two, reaching base three times, before being pinch hit for, which turned to gold as Skip Schumaker came up with a 2 run basehit, which put the Cardinals up for good. Nick Stavinoha, and Brendan Ryan also came up with big rbi hits, as the Cardinals knocked out Kenny Rogers and the Tigers 8-4.

Braden Looper picked up his 9th win, pitching 6 innings, allowing 7 hits and 4 runs. Looper has had t hree straight games of pitching exceptionally well. Kenny Rogers picked up the loss for the Tigers, falling to 5-5, as he could not get out of the 6th inning, going 5.1 innings, yielding 9 hits, 5 runs- all earned.

The Cardinals and Tigers will be back at it today with 9-2 Kyle Lohse taking on 7-2 Armando Galarraga.

Go Cardinals! This could be the last time the Cardinals are without Albert’s services!