Top two teams in NL Central lose again
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The St. Louis Cardinals can't seem to take control of the National League Central. Luckily for them, the second-place Cincinnati Reds are struggling, too.
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Dodgers are on the verge of being swept again, and this time it&#39;s the bottom of the Cardinal order that does much of the damage.
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With their pitching staff in tatters, the free-falling New York Mets blew a five-run lead Wednesday night and lost again to Washington. Now they're in danger of blowing the whole NL East race, too.
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St. Louis, Mo. - Getting the third out of an inning against the St. Louis Cardinals has become a National League Championship Series-sized headache for the Houston Astros.
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Albert Pujols's three-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning was the difference in the Cardinals' 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres last night in St. Louis, ending a seven-game losing streak during which the Cardinals' NL Central lead shriveled to 1 1/2 games.
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The Detroit Tigers had everything lined up to take command of the American League Central race. They had a five-run lead against the lowly Kansas City Royals . . . and simply blew it.
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Cincinnati had a chance to widen its lead in the National League wild-card race and couldn't do it. Arizona and San Diego each had an opportunity to catch the Reds and fell short.
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San Diego's four-run seventh inning sends St. Louis to its seventh straight loss, a 7-5 decision which cuts the Cardinals' lead in the NL Central to 1 1/2 games.
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Royals manager Tony Pena would rather look forward to next season than dwell on this one. The Royals set a club record for losses with their 101st of the season, falling 5-2 to the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night.
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DENVER, Sept. 9 -- Lost in the morass of errors in Friday night's 11-8 loss to the Colorado Rockies -- there were six, tying a Washington Nationals franchise record -- was another form of sloppy baseball, and it came from the arms of their pitchers.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks wasted a chance to extend their lead in the AL West, losing 7-1 to Chad Billingsley and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.
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â¢ St. Louis (105-57, first place in NL Central) coasted into the postseason. The Cardinals split their final 26 games of the season but still finished 13 games ahead
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Scott Rolen swung feebly at a ball that bounced in the dirt, missing for the final out. A few more losses and the St. Louis Cardinals might miss the playoffs, too.
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Time is running out on the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers wasted a chance to cut their NL Central deficit to one game, giving up a first-inning home run to Albert Pujols in a testy 7-3 loss Wednesday night to the St. Louis Cardinals that saw two more hit batters and a pair of ejections.
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For the second straight night, the Nationals come back from a four-run deficit to beat the New York Mets, 9-8, and hand NL East leader its fifth straight loss.
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There were two unusual and discussion-worthy instances of closer usage in the first couple of days of Division Series play: Ron Gardenhire sticking with Joe Nathan in the 12th inning of Minnesota&#39;s brutal 7-6 loss to the Yankees in Game 2, and Phil Garner
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This time the scorecard was blemished on the first batter of the game. Rockies center fielder Willy Taveras earned an infield single on a slow roller to shortstop, advancing to second on an errant throw by Julio Lugo.