The Gas House Gang

Jason Isringhausen has been struggling a bit early in the year, but with what has become a rare sellout crowd in St. Louis on-hand and a national TV audience watching, Izzy came through big to secure his 10^th save of the year in the Cardinals’ 5-3 win over the Cubs last night.

The Cubs got the early lead on starter Todd Wellemeyer, scoring 2 runs in the top of the 2^nd inning only to see the Cards tie the game in the bottom half of the frame on RBI singles by Skip Shumaker and Adam Kennedy. Albert Pujols’ 2-run double in the 4^th would put St. Louis up 4-2 and Kennedy would add another RBI in the 6^th before the Cubs added a run in the 7^th to put the score at 5-3. Isringhausen pitched a perfect 9^th inning to secure the win and Central Division lead for the Cardinals.

St. Louis will open its series at Colorado today at 7:15pm (Central time), sending Joel Pineiro (2-2, 3.75 ERA) to the mound against Rockies righty Ubaldo Jimenez (1-2, 5.90 ERA).