Cards even series 1-1

After a horrendous defensive showing yesterday, the St Louis Cardinals played well out in the field and got a quality start from Michael Wacha. Wacha, who has been amazing in the playoffs, gave up only two runs in six innings. When he was relieved, the Cards were losing though. His counterpart, John Lackey, had a good curve ball, but command on fast ball was not as good. In fact, the wheels came off in the seventh inning for Lackey and the rest of the Red Sox as the Cardinals put up 3 runs in the inning to take the lead. The Cards had timely hitting, a stolen base, and errors committed by the Red Sox all in the seventh inning.

David Ortiz went deep again. This time opposite field. Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia have been the only ones hitting the ball consistently for the Red Sox; the other bats have been pretty much silent. Cardinals catcher, Yadier Molina, drove in Matt Holliday for the first run of the game in the fourth inning on a ground out.

Looking ahead to Game 3: The World Series will shift to Busch Stadium. The Cardinals will send former reliever Joe Kelly to the mound. Red Sox will counter with veteran righty, Jake Peavy. It will be curious to see where David Ortiz will play. There's no doubt his bat has to be in the line-up.

 

Red Sox take game 1

After Boston Red Sox Manager, John Farrell, came out to argue a call and have it overturned, his team never looked back. The Boston Red Sox went ahead with a three-run double of the bat of catcher Mike Napoli in the bottom of the first inning. David Ortiz, Red Sox DH, provided timely hitting with runners in scoring position. Ortiz came up big with a near grand slam in the 2nd inning that was turned into a long sacrifice fly scoring Shane Victorino. Ortiz, "Big Papi" as he populary known, got all of the baseball the next time up to bat as he hit one well over 400 feet scoring 2B Dustin Pedroia.

The St. Louis Cardinals didn't help their cause that much by playing poor defense. Infield pop fly dropped in between starting pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina. Even sure-handed shortstop Pete Kozma committed an error on a ground ball. Cardinals Manager, Mike Matheny, had to go to the bullpen five times. His pitching staff gave up a total of eight runs; five of those earned. On a bright note, Matt Holiday went 2-4, with a home run.

The Cardinals look to shake off this bad start to the World Series as they send out hot-handed pitcher Michael Wacha for Game 2. The Red Sox will counter with veteran John Lackey. The Cardinals need Wacha to go deep into the game after Matheny overused the bullpen tonight. The Cards' offense will also need to wake up and jump on Lackey early if they hope to win.