NLCS Game 3 – Cardinals Win 3 – 1
Matt Carpenter hit a two-run homer after subbing for an injured Carlos Beltran and the St. Louis Cardinals chased Matt Cain before a 3½ hour rain delay in the seventh inning of a 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants for a 2-1 series lead Wednesday night.
Kyle Lohse worked around a season-worst five walks in 5 2-3 innings. Mitchell Boggs struck out Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt with two on to end the seventh and Jason Motte earned the first two-inning save of his career to reward what remained of a sellout crowd of 45,850, perhaps a third, that stuck around.
Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro had two hits and a clean game in the field, two days after Matt Holliday rammed him breaking up a double-play ball. Manager Bruce Bochy had said there would be no retaliation, and Game 3 was collision-free.
NL | ||||
123 456 789 | R | H | E | |
San Francisco | 001 000 000 | —1 | 9 | 1 |
St. Louis | 002 000 10 | —3 | 6 | 0 |
Batteries: | ||||
San Francisco: Matt Cain, Javier Lopez (7), Jose Mijares | ||||
(8), George Kontos (8) and Buster Posey | ||||
St. Louis: Kyle Lohse, Trevor Rosenthal (6), Edward | ||||
Mujica (7), Mitchell Boggs (7), Jason Motte (8) and | ||||
Yadier Molina | ||||
WP: Kyle Lohse (1-0) | ||||
LP: Matt Cain (0-1) | ||||
Sv: Jason Motte (2) | ||||
HRs: St. Louis: Matt Carpenter (1) |