Carpenter shines as Cards crush Reds

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07/05/2009 - Cincinnati, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chris Carpenter returned to form with seven strong innings, and Colby Rasmus homered for the second day in a row, as the Cardinals took the finale of this three-game set, 10-1, over the Reds.

Carpenter (6-3) scattered five hits and a run with one walk and five strikeouts while also picking up an RBI single in the win. The former Cy Young Award winner was tagged for six runs on 11 hits in his last start versus San Francisco -- an outing that saw his earned run average climb more than 60 points. He had allowed three runs or less in each of his 10 previous starts this season.

Skip Schumaker was 3-for-4 with two runs scored, and Rasmus hit a two-run homer and doubled for St. Louis, which had a three-game win streak broken on Saturday. Joe Thurston added a pair of RBI.

Yadier Molina, named to his first All-Star Game earlier Sunday, had two hits and two RBI. Molina will start behind the plate while teammate Albert Pujols will make his eighth All-Star appearance and sixth start after garnering 5,397,374 votes, the second-most in history behind Ken Griffey, Jr., who had 6,079,688 votes in 1994.

Jay Bruce accounted for the offense with an RBI triple for the Reds, who had won three of the last four entering play. Bronson Arroyo (8-8) labored through five-plus innings, allowing 11 hits and eight runs, five of those earned. Arroyo has dropped five of his last six decisions.

Rasmus started things off in familiar fashion, drilling a two-run homer to right in the first -- one day after clubbing a solo shot in the first frame of a 5-2 loss.

This one would be decided quickly, though, as Molina and Carpenter each had an RBI single in the fourth to make it 4-0.

A four-run fifth made it an 8-0 game.

Schumaker singled, Rasmus doubled and Pujols was intentionally walked to load the bases, still with nobody out. A throwing error by Edwin Encarnacion then plated a pair, and Rick Ankiel and Thurston went on to plate two more -- both via the sacrifice fly.

Bruce gave the Reds their lone bright spot with a triple to left in the seventh that scored Joey Votto, but the Cardinals scored twice in the ninth off Carlos Fisher on Molina's groundout and Thurston's RBI single to center.

Game Notes

St. Louis evened the season series at five games apiece...Carpenter twirled a brilliant nine innings against Cincinnati on June 4 in St. Louis, giving up just three hits and a run in a 3-1 victory. He's now 5-3 against Cincinnati in 11 starts...Jerry Hairston, Jr. had two of Cincinnati's six hits...The Reds' lone All-Star representative is closer Francisco Cordero.

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