Wow! What a game you saw last night if you had St. Louis Cardinals tickets, when Jaime Garcia threw a no hitter for the WIN_TEAM!! Congratulations to Garcia as well as the Cardinals for an incredible accomplishment. You never know what you will see at a baseball game and if you were at Busch Stadium yesterday you’ll have a story to tell for the rest of your life! It was a huge win that rooters with Cards baseball tickets aren’t likely to forget. You never know what you’ll see at a baseball game so get your cheap tickets today!
Cardinals pitcher Jaime Garcia (2.42 ERA) got the win, while Barry Zito (3.75 ERA) took the loss for the Giants. Jaime Garcia went 9 solid innings for the Cardinals, allowed 3 hits, no home runs and no earned runs with no walks and 6 strikeouts. The Giants’s starter Barry Zito went 3.2 innings, allowed 7 hits, one home run and 5 earned runs with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. Guillermo Mota (4.78), Javier Lopez (2.54), Ramon Ramirez (3.61), and Santiago Casilla (2.19) also pitched for the Giants. With the win, Garcia’s record goes to 11-6, while Zito drops to 8-8.
In addition to the 9 runs, the Cardinals put up 15 hits and committed no errors. Jon Jay led the Cardinals in hitting with 3 hits, followed by Allen Craig’s 2 hits, and Yadier Molina with 2. Matt Holliday had a tough day at the plate, leaving 5 runners on base. The Giants didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Giants mustered no runs, 3 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Field Culbreth, Mike Everitt, Gary Cederstrom and Ed Hickox. There were 42,638 Cardinals ticket holders in attendance at Busch Stadium.