St. Louis Cardinals defeat Colorado Rockies 6-1 – MLB Update
Pitching into the seventh inning, Kyle Lohse allowed only a run on Friday, August 12 to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Colorado Rockies 6-1 at Busch Stadium.
Kyle Lohse was befittingly backed by an equally strong offence to help rout the Rockies.
Lohse also alluded to what techniques enabled him to contain the slumping Colorado Rockies. "I tweaked some things mechanically, dropped the arm slot a little bit just to see what happened," Lohse said. "And I came out with some good results."
Kyle Lohse started the game aggressively with a hitless inning, allowing no run to the Rockies’ offence. Aaron Cook followed for the Rockies with a solid first inning to keep it scoreless.
"I've felt fine physically," Lohse said after working into the seventh inning of the Cardinals' 6-1 victory over the Rockies on Friday night. "Tony's going to set the matchups the way he wants and I'm ready whenever he wants me to be ready."
However, Cook’s second proved to be weak compared to that of Kyle Lohse who tossed another shutout. David Freese singled to deep centre to score the first run for the St. Louis Cardinals while the Rockies’ offence was completely unable to capitalise on any
opportunity.
It was finally in the fourth inning that Carlos Gonzalez ended the run drought for Rockies with his homer that levelled the score. Cook then came forward with strong aggressive innings subsequently apart from the one that would determine the result of the
game.
The sixth inning that Cook came in to pitch was subject to six hits that brought an invaluable five runs for the Cardinals. It was first Albert Pujols who singled to centre to score the tiebreaking run for the Cardinals.
Matt Holliday followed with another RBI, while David Freese hit a two-run RBI that took the score to 5-1 for the Cardinals. Failing to settle completely, Aaron Cook allowed another run to Kyle Lohse that piled up the Cardinals lead to 6-1.
Having scored a run himself, Lohse then pitched into the seventh, keeping it scoreless, followed by Kyle McClellan whose strong eighth kept the Cardinals lead strengthened. With his effectual eighth, McClellan was allowed to pitch the ninth inning as well.
He proved to be an effective closer as he tossed another scoreless inning to pack the game with a 6-1 victory for the St. Louis Cardinals against an ever weakening Colorado Rockies which stands 24th in MLB ranking with their 65 losses.
The Cardinals put in a brilliant effort as they managed to restrict the Rockies’ offence from scoring runs in the later part of the game. Colorado will be looking to improve their performance in their next match-up.
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