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St. Louis Cardinals 5 Detroit Tigers 0
Rick Gagliano | 10/24/06
As the series shifted to St. Louis, 2005 National League Cy Young Award winner Chris Carpenter got the start for the Cardinals, and for the first time in the series, a St. Louis pitcher got through the first inning without allowing a run, or a hit. Carpenter got the Tigers 1-2-3 in the top of the first. And the second... It was a portent of things to come.
But the Tigers' Nate Robertson was nearly as effective early on, allowing only a walk to Jim Edmonds through two.
In the third, Inge stroked a one-out single to center, was sacrificed to 2nd by Robertson and took third on a wild pitch by Carpenter, but Granderson continued his hitless series by grounding to second for his 11th consecutive at-bat without a hit, ending the only real threat of the night by the Tigers.
Robertson, who threw 42 pitches through the first three innings, ran into serious trouble in the 4th. Preston Wilson singled over the head of shortstop Carlos Guillen to open the frame and moved to third when Albert Pujols ripped a ground rule double down the right filed line. Rolen walked to load the bases. Belliard grounded to third, forcing Wilson at the plate for the first out. Jim Edmonds, the only leftie in the lineup for the Cardinals, delivered a double down the right field line to drive in two.
After the Edmonds double, Molina was intentionally walked, So Taguchi popped out to short and Carpenter popped out to first, but the Cardinals led, 2-0.
Robertson, despite allowing only the 2 runs in the 4th, was lifted in the top of the 6th for a pinch hitter. He worked 5 innings, and gave up 5 hits and 3 walks while throwing 84 pitches.
Wilfredo Ledezma came on in the 6th for the Tigers, but Molina doubled into the right-center gap with one out. That chased Ledezma, bringing on fireballer Joel Zumaya for Detroit. Zumaya easily got Taguchi and Carpenter, though, to finish the inning.
In the bottom of the 7th, Eckstein reached for the second straight time to lead off an inning (he singled in the 5th), this time on a walk from Zumaya. The Detroit flame-thrower was wild, walking Preston Wilson on 5 pitches and bringing Pujols to the plate.
The wild throwing proved Zumaya's undoing as he hurled wildly past third baseman Brandon Inge on a Pujols comebacker which allowed Eckstein and Wilson to scamper home with the Cardinals' 3rd and 4th runs.
Grilli replaced Zumaya and got Rolen and Belliard on ground outs. Pujols advanced to third on Rolen's out. After a walk to Edmonds, Molina grounded out to end the frame, but the Cardinals had inflicted more wounds off Zumaya's untimely error.
A walk to Taguchi, a sacrifice by Carpenter, Eckstein's second single of the night, and a walk to Wilson, all by Fernando Rodney brought Pujols to the plate and Zach Miner to the mound with one out and the bases crowded with Cardinals.
Carpenter, meanwhile, was in rare, classic form. Through the 8 inning he worked he had allowed only three hits, walked none and struck out 6 on just 82 pitches.
Carpenter who threw 12 complete games and 7 shutouts in 2005 and 2006 combined, showed the Tigers and the world why he won the Cy Young award in '05 with a clutch performance in a pivotal game.
Jim Leyland kept to the same lineup with the only change pitcher Nate Robertson batting 9th, instead of Ramon Santiago, who was replaced by Carlos Guillen at short.
David Eckstein ended the hitless streak at the top of the orders with a scratch single up the middle to lead off the bottom of the 5th. His counterpart, Granderson, remained hitless with another 0-4 performance, making him 0-13 in the series. Maybe more troubling for the Tigers, Polanco is 0-10 and Rodriguez is 0-11.
Bradon Looper worked a hitless 9th for the Cardinals.
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