THINKS THE EAGLES STOLE ONE
ST. LOUIS - Albert Pujols hit his fifth home run in five games - the longest homer at Busch Stadium this season - and Adam Wainwright worked seven strong innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals rout the Detroit Tigers and red-hot ace Justin Verlander, 11-2, last night.
Pujols also drew his majorleague-leading 19th and 20th intentional walks in only semi-threatening situations before lining his 23d homer an estimated 446 feet over the left-field wall off Ryan Perry to start the sixth.
Chris Duncan followed with a 418-foot shot that gave the light-hitting Cardinals back-to-back homers for the first time all season.
Detroit 000 001 010– 2 8 3
St. Louis 400 142 00x – 11 14 1
Detroit AB R H BI Avg. St. Louis AB R H BI Avg.
Kelly lf 5 0 1 0 .273 Schumaker 2b 5 1 3 1 .284
Polanco 2b 5 0 1 0 .260 Rasmus cf 5 0 1 0 .261
Ordonez rf 3 0 0 0 .272 Pujols 1b 2 2 1 1 .326
Perry p 0 0 0 0 --- T.Greene ss 1 0 0 0 .258
b-Thames ph 1 0 0 0 .302 Duncan lf 5 3 3 1 .258
Lyon p 0 0 0 0 --- Ankiel rf 4 1 1 0 .247
Mi.Cabrera 1b 3 1 2 1 .325 Y.Molina c-1b 3 2 2 2 .270
Sardinha c 0 0 0 0 .097 Thurston 3b 3 1 1 2 .240
Granderson cf 3 0 0 0 .256 Wainwright p 3 1 1 0 .158
Inge 3b 4 1 1 1 .264 c-LaRue ph-c 1 0 0 0 .275
Laird c-1b 4 0 1 0 .220 Br.Ryan ss 3 0 1 3 .300
Santiago ss 4 0 1 0 .284 Walters p 0 0 0 0 .000
Verlander p 1 0 0 0 .000 Totals 35 11 14 10
