When the Cardinals scored seven
runs in the second inning en route to an 8-4 victory over the Houston Astros
Saturday night, it was St. Louis’ largest single-inning offensive
explosion of the 2008 season, now 64 games long. In fact, it was the Cardinals’ largest
outburst in one inning since last September 8, 88 games ago.
With Ryan Ludwick having attended
college in Las Vegas at UNLV, also the home of his older brother, former
Cardinals pitcher Eric Ludwick, it only seemed fitting that Ryan would be the
catalyst for Saturday night’s “lucky” seven-run inning to help fold the Astros.
Prior to Saturday, St. Louis had scored seven
or more runs in one frame seven times since the start of the 2006 championship
season. Not surprisingly, the Cardinals are 7-1 in these high-scoring contests.
A summary of each recent big
inning follows.
9/8/2007 @ Arizona
Cardinals score 7
in the third to take a 7-3 lead in a 9-8 loss
Looper starts it with a walk
and ends it getting thrown at second on an RBI single
Big blows-Pujols 2-run
triple and Miles 3-run homer
8/6/2007 vs. Padres
Cardinals score
10 in the 5th to take a 10-3 lead in a 10-5 win
Looper has two singles-second
one on bunt-first started inning
Miles also has two singles
Eckstein
drives in first run (1B) and last/10th (SF)
Started with 6 singles then 3-run
homer by Rolen then HR by Ludwick
6/16/2007 @ Oakland
Cardinals score
10 in the 5th to take a 15-3 lead in a 15-6 win
Rolen two walks in the
inning
Duncan pinch hit grand slam to close out scoring
Duncan pitch hit
for Ludwick who flied out for first out
Encarnacion starts with a
double-later RBI groundout
Miles drives in first run and makes last
out
6/1/2007 @
Houston
Cardinals score 7 in the 9th to win 8-1
Inning opens with
back-to-back HR by Encarnacion and Bennett
Next batter Kennedy-HBP-Ludwick
reaches on sac bunt-Spiezio 2-run double
Kip wells pinch-hit RBI
single
Bennett closes out scoring with 2-run double
9/15/2006 vs.
San
Francisco
Cardinals score 7 in
the sixth to take a 13-2 lead in a 14-4 win
Rolen opens inning
with a HR and closes the scoring with a 3-run double
Rolen also hit a
3-run HR in the first
1B by Belliard,
Molina HBP, Suppan sac followed by Miles walk to load
bases
Duncan bases loaded walk,
followed by Pujols 2-run single
5/5/2006 @
Florida
Cardinals score 7 in
the 5th to take a 7-0 lead in a 7-2 win
Inning opened with
an Eckstein walk, Rodriquez single and Pujols 3-run HR
Gary Bennett hit
2-run single and Suppan had an RBI single
Todd Wellemeyer
brought in by FLA got an inning-ending Sac Fly/double play
on SF by Eckstein with Suppan thrown out at second
4/3/2006 @ Philadelphia
Cardinals score 8 in
the fourth to take a 10-0 lead in a 13-5 win
Rolen opened the
inning with a single and closed the scoring with a grand
slam
Miles drove in the
first two runs with a triple-he was singled in by
Carpenter
Pujols drove in the
4th run on a SF after 5 straight hits
Brian Walton can be reached via
email at brwalton@earthlink.net.
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