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[TheNumber35]

You got 1 hit by Paul MahLOLm? Rough start man...but I'm loving the graphics, best of luck going forward and I'll definitely be following

[ch1088]

1 hitter by maholm is rough... looks like you guys will be ok though

[yougo1000]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheNumber35

You got 1 hit by Paul MahLOLm? Rough start man...but I'm loving the graphics, best of luck going forward and I'll definitely be following

Don't you dare offend a Cubbie

[jct32]

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St. Louis Cardinals (7-11) @ Chicago Cubs (9-9)
Wrigley Field
Chicago, IL
April 24th, 2012

Once again the Cardinals blew a late lead to end up losing the game, one of many already in this young season. Fernando Salas gave up a 3 run home run after entering the game. That makes two nights in a row the Cardinals blew a lead in the late innings for the loss.

Kyle Lohse went 7.2 innings giving up 4 hits and 3 runs while striking out 9 in another good performance but he picked up the loss. Daniel Descalso had the best game at the plate for the Cardinals going 3-4 and driving in both of the Cardinals runs.

For the Cubs Geovany Soto and Reed Johnson both hit homeruns in the win for the Cubs. Travis Wood went 6.0 innings for the Cubs with 5 hits 1 earned run and 6 strikeouts.

The Cardinals and the Cubs face off one more time tomorrow to close out the series.

St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
Apr 24, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
St. Louis (7-11)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	0
Chicago (9-9)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	X	4	5	2
W: Trever Miller (1-0) L: Kyle Lohse (0-1) S: Carlos Marmol (6)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			STL	CHC
STL	3rd	Descalso flied to left for a single, Lohse scores.	1	0
CHC	3rd	Soto homered to center.	1	1
STL	5th	Descalso flied to left for a single, Lohse scores.	2	1
CHC	8th	Johnson homered to center, Amezaga and Barney score.	2	4

St. Louis Cardinals
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Jay, CF	4	0	1	0	0	1	.125
Descalso, 2B	4	0	3	2	0	1	.294
Holliday, LF	4	0	1	0	0	1	.254
Berkman, 1B	3	0	0	0	0	1	.314
Freese, 3B	4	0	0	0	0	0	.224
Craig, RF	4	0	1	0	0	1	.246
Furcal, SS	3	0	0	0	1	0	.158
Hill, C	4	0	0	0	0	2	.125
Lohse, P	2	2	0	0	1	1	.000
Beltran, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.271
BATTING RBI: Descalso 2 (2) HBP: Berkman GIDP: Freese
BASERUNNING SB: Furcal (7)

St. Louis Cardinals
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Lohse	7.2	4	3	3	0	9	4.88
Salas	0.1	1	1	1	0	0	1.93

Chicago Cubs
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Barney, 2B	4	1	0	0	0	2	.169
Johnson, CF	4	1	1	3	0	1	.255
DeJesus, RF	4	0	0	0	0	1	.212
Soriano, LF	3	0	0	0	0	2	.164
LaHair, 1B	3	0	1	0	0	1	.327
Stewart, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.229
DeWitt, SS	3	0	1	0	0	0	.303
Soto, C	2	1	1	1	0	0	.222
Byrd, PH	1	0	0	0	0	1	.210
Wood, P	1	0	1	0	0	0	.500
Castro, PH	1	0	0	0	0	1	.131
Jaramillo, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.385
BATTING 2B: Wood (1) HR: Soto (3), Johnson (1) RBI: Soto (8), Johnson 3 (3)
FIELDING E: LaHair (3), DeWitt (1)

Chicago Cubs
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Wood	6.0	5	2	1	2	6	3.18
Miller	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	0.00
Samardzija	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	2.89
Marmol	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	1.23

[jct32]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheNumber35

You got 1 hit by Paul MahLOLm? Rough start man...but I'm loving the graphics, best of luck going forward and I'll definitely be following

Yeah it was not good. I'm not sure on how I feel on the layout. The most recent one I posted I like, but I also like all the others. I don't always have the most time so I'm trying to find the most time efficient one that I like but still provide some information. I like to add a little bit of a story also.

Quote: Originally Posted by ch1088

1 hitter by maholm is rough... looks like you guys will be ok though

I sure hope so. I can get hits it just stringing them together that is my problem. My pitching staff is doing quite stellar with the exception of late innings. I have blown so many leads. I'm thinking of replacing Motte he already has 3 or 4 blown saves.

[jct32]

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St. Louis Cardinals (8-11) @ Chicago Cubs (9-10)
Wrigley Field
Chicago, IL
April 25th, 2012

The last game of this Cards-Cubs series proved to be an interesting one as it took extra frames to decide a winner and almost included a no hitter.

Jaime Garcia shined on the mound for the St. Louis Cardinals throwing 9.0 innings only giving up one run and striking out 4. Garcia carried a no hitter through 7 innings before giving up a hit to Alfonso Soriano to end his bid at a no hitter.

"If I can get more performances out of him like today then we will win the division," said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny after the game.

Matt Holliday got his first and only hit of the game when he belted a 2 out solo home run to left field in the top of the 11th inning for the only run of the game. Skip Schumaker and Allen Craig also had multi-hit games in the victory.

The Cardinals get a day off before taking on Milwaukee at home with Lance Lynn (0-2, 2.41 ERA) and Chris Narveson (1-1, 3.06 ERA) scheduled to take the mound for each team.

St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
Apr 25, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Extras	R	H	E
St. Louis (8-11)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	01	1	7	1
Chicago (9-10)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	00	0	4	0
W: Eduardo Sanchez (1-0) L: Kerry Wood (2-1) S: Jason Motte (5)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			STL	CHC
STL	11th	Holliday homered to left.	1	0

St. Louis Cardinals
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Beltran, CF	5	0	0	0	0	2	.253
Schumaker, 2B	5	0	2	0	0	0	.206
Holliday, LF	5	1	1	1	0	1	.250
Berkman, 1B	2	0	0	0	3	1	.306
Craig, RF	3	0	2	0	1	1	.267
Molina, C	4	0	0	0	0	0	.311
Freese, 3B	3	0	0	0	1	0	.213
Furcal, SS	4	0	1	0	0	2	.164
Garcia, P	3	0	1	0	0	0	.200
Chambers, PH	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250
BATTING HR: Holliday (3) RBI: Holliday (6) GIDP: Beltran, Molina
BASERUNNING CS: Furcal (2), Schumaker (4), Chambers (1)
FIELDING E: Freese (2)

St. Louis Cardinals
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Garcia	9.0	1	0	0	0	4	2.35
McClellan	0.1	2	0	0	0	1	0.00
Sanchez	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	3.24
Motte	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	6.75

Chicago Cubs
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Johnson, CF	5	0	0	0	0	2	.231
DeWitt, 3B	4	0	1	0	0	0	.297
Castro, SS	4	0	1	0	0	1	.138
Soriano, LF	4	0	1	0	0	0	.169
LaHair, 1B	4	0	0	0	0	1	.305
Byrd, RF	4	0	0	0	0	1	.197
Soto, C	3	0	0	0	0	1	.208
DeJesus, PH	0	0	0	0	1	0	.212
Baker, 2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.267
Jaramillo, PH	1	0	1	0	0	0	.429
Wells, P	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Barney, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.167
Stewart, PH	1	0	0	0	0	1	.224
BATTING GIDP: Castro, LaHair

Chicago Cubs
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Wells	6.0	5	0	0	4	4	3.65
Coleman	3.0	1	0	0	1	0	0.00
Wood	2.0	1	1	1	1	3	0.71

[jct32]

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Milwaukee Brewers (12-8) @ St. Louis Cardinals (9-11)
Busch Stadium
St. Louis, MO
April 27th, 2012

After a strong spring training Rafael Furcal has been baffled so far during the regular season. Furcal has not been showing the form he showed during the spring and is hitting below .200. However, last night against the Brewers Furcal showed that he can still get his bat going to compliment his superb defensive play so far. Furcal went 2-3 with a home run and 2 RBIs as he lead the Cardinals offense to a victory.

Pitcher Lance Lynn went 8 innings, giving up 9 hits and 2 runs while striking out 2 and gained the victory after Jason Motte came in the 9th inning and struck out 2 to get the save. Matt Holliday also went 2-4 and drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 8th.

For the Brewers Corey Hart hit a solo home run in the 2nd inning which would end up to be his only hit. Rickie Weeks went 2-4 for in the loss. Pitcher Chris Narveson got the start and went 7 innings giving up 5 hits, 2 runs and striking out 3. Marco Estrada would pick up the loss going 0.1 inning, with 2 hits and 1 run.

The Cardinals and Brewers play again tomorrow with Chris Carpenter (3-0, 1.03) taking the hill against Sean Green (0-0, 0.00)

Milwaukee Brewers at St. Louis Cardinals
Apr 27, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Milwaukee (12-8)	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	1
St. Louis (9-11)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	X	3	7	0
W: Lance Lynn (1-2) L: Marco Estrada (0-2) S: Jason Motte (6)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			MIL	STL
MIL	2nd	Hart homered to left.	1	0
MIL	3rd	Ramirez hit a sacrifice fly to Craig, Morgan scores.	2	0
STL	4th	Furcal grounded to left for a single, Freese scores.	2	1
STL	7th	Furcal homered to center.	2	2
STL	8th	Holliday grounded to center for a single, Beltran scores.	2	3

Milwaukee Brewers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Morgan, CF	4	1	1	0	0	0	.299
Weeks, 2B	4	0	2	0	0	1	.394
Braun, LF	4	0	0	0	0	0	.269
Ramirez, 3B	3	0	1	1	0	0	.362
Hart, RF	4	1	1	1	0	1	.258
Gamel, 1B	4	0	2	0	0	1	.297
Lucroy, C	4	0	0	0	0	1	.056
Gonzalez, SS	3	0	0	0	0	0	.231
Narveson, P	2	0	2	0	0	0	.286
Kottaras, PH	1	0	1	0	0	0	.351
BATTING HR: Hart (2) RBI: Ramirez (19), Hart (4) SF: Ramirez GIDP: Morgan 2, Gonzalez
FIELDING E: Narveson (1)

Milwaukee Brewers
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Narveson	7.0	5	2	1	1	3	2.55
Estrada	0.1	2	1	1	0	0	4.91
Loe	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	5.40

St. Louis Cardinals
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Beltran, CF	3	1	1	0	1	0	.256
Descalso, 2B	4	0	1	0	0	0	.286
Holliday, LF	4	0	2	1	0	0	.264
Berkman, 1B	4	0	0	0	0	1	.289
Freese, 3B	3	1	1	0	0	1	.219
Craig, RF	3	0	0	0	0	0	.254
Furcal, SS	3	1	2	2	0	0	.187
Molina, C	3	0	0	0	0	0	.297
Lynn, P	3	0	0	0	0	1	.111
BATTING HR: Furcal (2) RBI: Furcal 2 (3), Holliday (7) GIDP: Berkman 2
BASERUNNING SB: Beltran 2 (12)

St. Louis Cardinals
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Lynn	8.0	9	2	2	0	2	2.36
Motte	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	6.00

[jct32]

Milwaukee Brewers at St. Louis Cardinals
Apr 28, 2012	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Milwaukee (13-8)	1	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	5	10	0
St. Louis (9-12)	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	4	8	0
W: Zach Braddock (1-0) L: Chris Carpenter (3-1) S: John Axford (5)

Milwaukee Brewers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Morgan, CF	5	0	1	0	0	1	.292
Weeks, 2B	5	1	1	0	0	2	.380
Bruan, LF	5	2	1	1	0	1	.264
Ramirez, 3B	3	0	2	1	2	0	.375
Hart, RF	4	0	2	1	1	0	.273
Gamel, 1B	4	0	0	1	1	1	.282
Lucroy, C	4	0	0	0	0	2	.045
Gonzalez, SS	3	1	2	0	1	0	.250
Green, P	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Kottaras, PH	1	1	1	1	0	0	.368
Farris, PH	1	0	0	0	0	1	.167
BATTING 2B: Weeks (10), Ramierez 2 (4), Kottaras (3) 3B: Braun (2) RBI: Braun (5), Ramirez (20), Hart (5), Gamel (5), Kottaras (10)
BASERUNNING SB: Braun (4)

Milwaukee Brewers
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Green	5.0	6	3	3	0	3	5.40
Braddock	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	3.18
Rodriguez	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00
Veras	0.2	2	1	1	0	1	5.87
Ullman	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	0.00
Axford	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00

St. Louis Cardinals
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Beltran, CF	4	1	1	0	0	1	.256
Schumaker, 2B	4	2	2	0	0	0	.224
Holliday, LF	4	0	0	1	0	1	.250
Berkman, 1B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.287
Craig, RF	3	0	1	2	0	1	.258
Molina, C	4	1	1	0	0	3	.294
Freese, 3B	4	0	0	0	0	0	.206
Furcal, SS	4	0	2	1	0	0	.206
Carpenter, P	1	0	0	0	0	0	.100
Chambers, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.231
Jay, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.118
BATTING 2B: Craig (2), Molina (8), Schumaker (3) RBI: Furcal (4), Holliday (8), Craig 2 (9) SF: Craig SAC: Carpenter
BASERUNNING SB: Furcal (8), Beltran (13), Schumaker (9)

St. Louis Cardinals
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Carpenter	6.2	7	4	4	2	7	1.91
Sanchez	0.0	1	1	1	2	0	4.32
Salas	0.1	0	0	0	1	1	1.80
Clements	2.0	2	0	0	0	1	4.82