Phils ambush Cards 9-2 - STLtoday.com
PHILADELPHIA • The Cardinals' series finale here Sunday was yet another example of why major league baseball is the most unpredictable, the most impossible to define, of all pro sports. Michael Wacha was pitching for the Cardinals, bearer of a 9-2 record and 2. 48 earned run average. The Cardinals had the majors' best record at 45-23. The Phillies had baseball's worst record at 23-47. They had lost 11 of 12 and 21 of 25 and veteran observers were calling this group of Quakers the worst ever in this town. The Phillies cuffed Wacha for three runs in the second and two in the fifth. The five runs were the most Wacha had allowed in a game this year and his five innings pitched tied his lowest, even though he struck out seven and threw 57 strikes out of 81 pitches. Morgan, meanwhile, held the Cardinals to one run for 5 2/3 innings before turning the game over to the Phillies' bullpen, which is one of the few positives about this club. Jhonny Peralta's fourth-inning homer and Jason Heyward's ninth-inning shot, his third hit of the day, represented the only scoring for the Cardinals, who scored two runs or fewer in a game for the third time in their last five and three runs or... They had tallied 22 runs in the first two games of this series. Source: www.stltoday.com
