The St. Louis Cardinals narrowly defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday at Chase Field with the Cardinals coming out on top 4 to 2. It was a solid match that aficionados with Cards baseball tickets won’t soon forget.

Cardinals pitcher Brad Penny (1.29 ERA) got the win, while Blaine Boyer (3.00 ERA) took the loss for the Diamondbacks. Brad Penny went 7 solid innings for the Cardinals, allowed 8 hits, no home runs and 2 earned runs with one walk and 5 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Cardinals was Jason Motte (3.00), and Trever Miller (0.00). The Diamondbacks’s starter Rodrigo Lopez went 7 innings, allowed 7 hits, one home run and 2 earned runs with 4 walks and 3 strikeouts. Chad Qualls (8.44) also pitched for the Diamondbacks. With the win, Penny’s record goes to 2-0, while Boyer is at 1-2. Ryan Franklin earned the save for the Cardinals, bringing his saves up to 5.

In addition to the 4 runs, the Cardinals scored 11 hits and committed no errors. Matt Holliday led the Cardinals in hitting with 3 hits, followed by Colby Rasmus’s 2 hits. The Diamondbacks didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Diamondbacks scored 2 runs, 10 hits and 2 errors.

Umpiring duties were performed by Marty Foster, Gary Cederstrom, Ed Hickox and Field Culbreth. There were 24,167 Diamondbacks ticket holders in attendance at Chase Field.

The win puts the Cardinals at a record of -, ( games behind first place in the division), while the loss brings the Diamondbacks to -, ( games behind the division leader). Next up for the Cardinals are the (-) at the Diamondbacks’s Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark). If you are in the area you might want to check out what’s available for tickets because that game should be a good one. The Diamondbacks will next take on the (-) at Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark) in what should be a very good game of MLB baseball. Buy your tickets today and see it all live.