Reds Beat Cardinals 9-8: Colby Rasmus 3 Hits & 2-Run HR; Jon Jay 3 Hits, 1 HR, & 2 RBIs; Brendan Ryan Double & 2 RBIs

Individual Highlights:
Brendan Ryan 1-for-3 with one double and two RBIs.
Albert Pujols 2-for-5 with one run and assisted in one double play.
Matt Holliday 1-for-2 with one RBI, two runs, and three walks.
Colby Rasmus 3-for-5 with one home run, two RBIs, two runs, and one strikeout.
David Freese 2-for-5 with one RBI, one run, and one strikeout.
Jon Jay 3-for-5 with one home run, two RBIs, two runs, and grounded into one double play.
Jason LaRue 1-for-2 with one walk, one sacrifice, and assisted in one double play.
Trever Miller entered in the fifth and pitched one inning. He allowed one hit, no runs, one walk, and struck two out. (p-s:25-16)(g/f:1-0)
Mitch Boggs entered in the sixth and pitched one inning. He allowed no hits or runs, and struck one out. (p-s:10-8)(g/f:1-1)
Ryan Franklin entered in the eighth and pitched two innings. He allowed one hit, no runs, hit one batter, and threw one wild pitch. (p-s:24-16)(g/f:2-3)

Rough Outing:
Nick Stavinoha 0-for-1 with one strikeout.
P.J. Walters started and pitched four innings. He allowed eight hits, seven earned runs, three home runs, one walk, and struck out three. 0-for-1 at the plate. (p-s:75-49)(g/f:4-4)
Dennys Reyes entered in the seventh and pitched to four batters. He allowed three hits, two earned runs, and struck one out for the blown save (2) and losing decision (2-1). (p-s:15-11)
Blake Hawksworth entered in the seventh and pitched to three batters. He allowed one hit, no runs, and struck one out. (p-s:10-7)(g/f:0-1)(i-rs:2-1)

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Cardinal Beat: Cardinals Counterpunch Power With Power In 1st Inning
Cardinal Beat: Scott Rolen's Second HR Puts Reds Ahead Again
Cardinal Beat: Tony LaRussa-Ryan Franklin Needs To Pitch Tonight
Cardinal Beat: With Felipe Lopez Out, Brendan Ryan Drives'em In
Cardinal Beat: Felipe Lopez Sore, But Fine After 9-8 Loss To Reds
STL Globe-Democrat Game Report

Jorge Sosa Opens Marlins Career With Rare Feet

One pitch, two outs, one big win.

Jorge Sosa, looking to reignite his career, pulled off a rarity on Monday. The 32-year-old threw one pitch, got a line-drive double play and ended up being the winning pitcher in Florida's 13-5 victory over Milwaukee.

Marlins Official Site

Ryan Ludwick Out With Sore Thumb, Jon Jay Starts; Brad Penny Begins Throwing Program; Felipe Lopez Lifted With Bruised Thumb; Aaron Miles Up; Etc...

Ryan Ludwick was held out of the Cardinals' lineup on Tuesday night after suffering a left thumb injury on Monday. Jon Jay got the nod in his place in right field.
Cardinals Official Site

Cardinals pitcher Brad Penny (strained back muscle) threw for the first time since the injury this afternoon, general manager John Mozeliak revealed. Mozeliak said Penny threw from flat ground during a workout before the start of batting practice.
Cardinal Beat

Cardinals hitting coach Mark McGwire’s wife Stephanie gave birth to three girls, manager Tony La Russa said. He received a text message announcing the births this afternoon. McGwire wrote that his triplets are “doing awesome” and that “Steph is great,” according to La Russa, who read the text message to the media during his pre-game chat.
Cardinal Beat

2010 Draft Board

Project Prospect

Reds Place Mike Lincoln On The Disabled List

The Reds made two roster moves that added help to a worn down bullpen.

Right-handed reliever Mike Lincoln was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained muscle in his right side. Another right-hander, Carlos Fisher was optioned to Triple-A Louisville.
Reds Official Site

Mark DeRosa Shuts Down Rehab

Andrew Baggarly Twitter

One day after going hitless in a rehab stint at Class A Advanced San Jose, Mark DeRosa was back in the San Francisco clubhouse Tuesday after experiencing more confusion with his left wrist.
Giants Official Site

With Ryan Ludwick Resting Jammed Thumb, Skip Schumaker Hits #2

Cardinals outfielder Ryan Ludwick sprained the thumb on his left hand during a slide into second base Monday, and he will take a break today to rest the injury and keep it from getting any more inflamed. Ludwick said that he had difficulty moving the thumb in extremes and that he should be fine by Wednesday.

Cardinal Beat

Aaron Miles Up, Allen Craig Down

The Cardinals purchased the contract of infielder Aaron Miles on Tuesday, optioning outfielder Allen Craig to Triple-A Memphis. Miles had been playing at Double-A Springfield.
Obviously, You're Not A Golfer

The Cardinals have just brought up infielder Aaron Miles from Class AA Springfield and have optioned outfielder Allen Craig to Class AAA Memphis one day after bringing him up.
Cardinal Beat

A favorite of manager Tony La Russa’s since his role with the World Series-winner in 2006 and for his knack of starting the year on the bench and ending it as a starter, Aaron Miles was greeted warmly this afternoon by the skipper.
Cardinal Beat

The Double-A Springfield Cardinals can no longer rely on the services of former big-leaguer Aaron Miles.
Springfield News-Leader

Allen Craig: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Aaron Miles: Back On Top

Low A Squad Has A Core Of Cardinals

Baseball America

After Brett Harper, No Sure Bats On Deck For Draft

There's no question the demand far outstrips the supply.

Of course, that's true of every First-Year Player Draft. Everyone hopes to find an impact bat or two every year, and finding advanced college ones are a priority. And every year, there aren't that many to go around.

MLB Official Site

Cardinals Minor League News & Notes 6-1-10

Alan Ahmady: Suspension Served

Tyler Bighames: Out Of The Penalty Box

Niko Vasquez: Getting On Base

Placido Polanco Expected Back On Friday

Matt Gelb Twitter

This has been an insufferably long week for Phillies third baseman Placido Polanco.
Phillies Official Site

Albert Pujols' Career On-Base Streaks Mount

Albert Pujols’ recent streak of reaching base nine times in a row just fell short of his career best.

The Cardinal Nation Blog

MLB, People Magazine, & Cardinals Announce Three Finalists For "People All-Stars Among Us" National Campaign

Major League Baseball, PEOPLE and the Cardinals today announced the three finalists and the start of the voting period for the 2010 "PEOPLE All-Stars Among Us" national campaign, which debuted in 2009 and recognizes individuals who are serving their community in extraordinary ways.

Cardinals Official Site

Where Albert Pujols Meets Hank Greenberg, Hack Wilson, Chick Hafey, & Shoeless Joe Jackson

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols shot by Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig on Sunday with the 1,149th RBI of his career. Pujols added another RBI later in that game — on his third home run off the game, no less — and an RBI on Monday to give him 1,151 in his career. That total puts him snugly ahead of Gehrig in the list of hitters with the most RBIs in their first 10 seasons in the majors.

Birdland

Cardinals Alumni Kids Clinics Return For Sixth Year

The St. Louis Cardinals will be hosting 14 Kids Clinics in the St. Louis-metro area this summer. For the sixth consecutive year, the Cardinals Alumni are giving back by teaching children baseball fundamentals with all instruction being provided by former coaches and players. The Cardinals are the only Major League team to staff Kids Clinics entirely with former players and coaches.

Cardinals Official Site

Thoughts Out Of Cincinnati

Paul Daugherty of the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that Cardinals pitching coach “Dave Duncan keeps cranking out pitching excellence, though, doesnt he? Has there ever been a better pitching coach?”

Cardinal Beat

Dan Haren On Trading Block?

Jon Heyman Twitter

Shelby Miller Paying His Dues With Quad Cities River Bandits

Baseball America

Daily Bernie Bytes 6-1-10: Matt Holliday On Track, Scott Rolen Impact, Etc...

Matt Holliday on May 31, 2009: 6 homers, 28 RBIs, .270 average, .366 onbase %, .416 slugging %

Matt Holliday on May 31, 2010: 5 homers, 22 RBIs, .306 average, .371 onbase, .461 slugging %

Bernie's Five Minutes

Breaking Down The Draft's Top Pitchers

A year ago, exactly half of the first round of the First-Year Player Draft -- 16 of the 32 picks -- were pitchers. In 2008, it was 11 out of 30. Evidently, Major League teams take that whole, "You can never have too much pitching" idea seriously.

MLB Official Site

Hitters Lead July 2 Class For 2010

Baseball America

Videos:
Vicmal De La Cruz
Ariel Ogando
Edwin Moreno
Esteilon Peguero

Graph Of The Day: Top Five WAR Active Leaders

Beyond The Boxscore

DG's 10@10: Looking At Outside Options For A Starting Pitcher

In his first comments to reporters since solving the riddle of his forearm with surgery last week, St. Louis Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse sounded upbeat, per the the notebook in this morning’s Post-Dispatch. He said he was happy to have an explanation for his inconsistencies during the previous 12 months and happy to have an answer to correct them . According to the notebook, Lohse offered this view to Joe Strauss and other reporters:

Birdland

Forcing The Opposing Manager To Walk Albert Pujols

Poz goes through the exercise to show that you’d rather have Orlando Cabrera with the bases loaded, than Pujols with runners on 1B and 3B. Let me show you a more theoretical answer, and it starts with the average run expectancy chart, which should at this moment be in your back pocket.

Inside The Book

Cal Eldred On The ITD Morning After 6-1-10

Fox Sports Midwest analyst and former Cardinal Cal Eldred joins the show, Cal talks about the recent surge by the Cardinals offense, Cal likes that the Cardinals are scoring runs without hitting homeruns, Cal talks about Schumaker and Felipe Lopez hitting leadoff, Cal talks about David Freese’s batting approach with two strikes, Cal thinks the Reds have a good mix of young guys and veterans, Cal talks about the Cardinals pitching rotation

Inside STL

Quad Cities River Bandits Notebook 6-1-10

This week’s update from the St. Louis Cardinals' Class A Midwest League home. Niko Vasquez and Scott Schneider led the way during May.

The Cardinal Nation

Cardinals International Notebook 6-1-10

Josh Jones’ report on baseball’s international happenings with an eye toward the St. Louis Cardinals past and present.

The Cardinal Nation

Cardinals Minor League Notebook 6-1-10

Evan MacLane gets easy fly balls, Daniel Descalso drives in four as Memphis gets a shutout. Curt Smith drives in two in Springfield's win. Quad Cities scores six in seventh, Scott Schneider tosses five hitless for third straight victory. VSL Cardinals can't rebound from errors in loss.

The Cardinal Nation

Expanded Horizons: Two Dogmas Of Sabermetrics

In 1951, W.V.O. Quine published his landmark paper, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” His goal was to disprove a certain type of empiricism that was trendy among analytic philosophers in the early 20th century. That set of beliefs—logical positivism—sought to deny that any statement that was not empirically verifiable had any meaning whatsoever. What Quine showed was that the two eponymous beliefs, which he derisively called dogmas, were necessary to logical positivism but also false. That paper remains one of the most important works of 20th -century philosophy because it demonstrated the limits of a system of knowledge based only in observable fact and logic.

Baseball Prospectus

Allen Craig Likes Being Back With Cardinals; Kyle Lohse Returns To Clubhouse; Rotation Set

Outfielder Allen Craig is back in St. Louis after a little more than a month with Class AAA Memphis.

Belleville News-Democrat

Fill-In Reliever Helps Seal Springfield Victory

In the minor leagues, prospects just want one chance to impress, to plant a seed in a manager's mind in hopes that he isn't forgotten down the road.

Springfield News-Leader

Ankle Puts Eduardo Sanchez On DL

Springfield Cardinals closer and highly regarded prospect Eduardo Sanchez joined the disabled list Monday, further complicating the team's chances of winning the Texas League North Division's first-half title and playoff berth that accompanies it.

Springfield News-Leader

Springfield Cardinals Report 6-1-10: Upcoming Series Starters

Springfield Cardinals at Corpus Christi Hooks, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday in Corpus Christi, Texas

Springfield News-Leader

Scott Schneider Perfects Art Of Relieving

Scott Schneider can only dream about what might have been if he'd started Monday's game for Class A Quad Cities against Burlington.

MiLB Official Site

Kyle Lohse Hopes Surgery Will End Forearm Problems

Almost a year to the day since the incident that eventually forced surgery on his right forearm, pitcher Kyle Lohse spent Monday showing off his heavily wrapped arm and expressing hope that the source of more than 12 months of frustration has finally been corrected.

Fox Sports Midwest

Rick Ankiel Takes A Jog

There is no timetable yet for either outfielder Rick Ankiel or reliever John Parrish to depart on a minor-league rehab assignment.

Both players accompanied the club on the road trip, which typically suggests the recovery is advanced.

Ankiel hasn’t played in the field since straining a right quadriceps muscle April 24 against Minnesota. He did make two pinch-hitting appearances before the injury forced him to the disabled list.

Parrish was diagnosed with inflammation in his left rotator cuff after an April 24 outing.

Yost said Ankiel jogged four times around Fenway Park in pregame workouts but must progress to a sprint regimen before starting a rehab assignment. Parrish is throwing bullpen workouts from a mound but will throw live batting practice before departing.

Kansas City Star

Kris Honel Named Golden Baseball League Pitcher Of The Week

The Golden Baseball League is pleased to announce that Pointstreak, the official statistics bureau for the GBL, has selected Chico Outlaws RHP Kris Honel as Pitcher of the Week and Yuma Scorpions Outfielder Timmy Rodriguez as Player of the Week for the first week of the Golden League season.

Golden Baseball League Official Site

Pensacola Pelicans Of The American Association Signs Randy Keisler

The Pensacola Pelicans have signed Randy Keisler, a former 2nd rounder with the New York Yankees and has pitched for four other major league clubs as well. Keisler spent two years with the Yankees before playing for San Diego, Cincinatti, Oakland, and St. Louis from 2003-2007.

Pensacola Pelicans Official Site

Field Set For NCAA Baseball Championship

The Arizona State Wildcats have been tapped as the top-seeded team for the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. The consensus No.1 team in the nation in most polls, the Texas Longhorns, are seeded second.

Baseball World

Hao-Chun Chiu Selected To Represent Taiwan In Haarlem Baseball Week Tournament In Holland

A 50 man preliminary roster has been selected to represent the country later this summer at the Haarlem Baseball Week Tournament in Holland (7/9-7/18) and then the WUBC in Japan (7/30-8/7). The roster will be pared down to 30 on the 13th of June after several intrasquad scrimmages .

Taiwan Baseball

26-Year Old Nicaraguan Right-Hander Roger Marin Tosses Seven-Inning No-Hitter For Managua In Nicaraguan National Championship

The lanky 26-year pitcher Boer, Roger Marin, threw a no-hitter for seven innings on Sunday against the Sharks of Granada, in what could be the starting point to be definitively established as one of the best pitchers of this baseball. (Translated)
La Prensa

The right of the Boer, Roger Marin on Sunday became the 47th player who throws a no-hitter game in the First Division ball Nicaragua, which since 1970 has changed the formats for the national championships. (Translated)
El Nuevo Diario

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NL Central Leaders Clash In St. Louis

Rain cut short Johnny Cueto's last start against St. Louis, but it was still the beginning of something big.

MLB Game Day

Rain Delay Doesn't Bother Jaime Garcia

The gloves are off — the kid gloves, that is, for Cardinals rookie pitcher Jaime Garcia.

STL Today

Cardinals Drown Reds Under Rain of Hits

The Cardinals began to get even against Bronson Arroyo on Monday afternoon at Busch Stadium.
STL Today

The Cardinals returned home where they found their bats, spanking the Reds, 12-4 on Monday.
The Cardinal Nation

Kyle Lohse Optimistic About Recovery; Pitching Ruminations; Etc...

Kyle Lohse returned to the Cardinals clubhouse Monday morning with his right forearm encased in heavy wrap but his mind free of a riddle posed over the past 12 months.

STL Today