The Colorado Rockies got a tough win over the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday at Coors Field with the Rockies picking up the W 8 to 7. You don’t often see such high scoring games, and anyone with Rockies tickets sure got their money’s worth. This high-scoring game saw the teams combine for a whopping 15 runs! Talk about excitement! Baseball isn’t the only game in town. See what other cheap sports tickets are out there.

Rockies pitcher Huston Street (1.93 ERA) got the win, while Evan Maclane (0.00 ERA) took the loss for the Cardinals. Aaron Cook went 5 innings for the Rockies, allowed 10 hits, 2 home runs and 5 earned runs with one walk and one strikeout. Also pitching for the Rockies was Esmil Rogers (4.85), and Matt Belisle (2.65). The Cardinals’s starter Jaime Garcia went 5.1 innings, allowed 9 hits, no home runs and 2 earned runs with one walk and 3 strikeouts. Kyle McClellan (2.27), Mitchell Boggs (2.78), Trever Miller (4.05), and Jason Motte (2.41) also pitched for the Cardinals. With the win, Street’s record goes to 1-1, while Maclane is at 0-1.

In addition to the 8 runs, the Rockies scored 15 hits and committed no errors. Brad Eldred, Carlos Gonzalez and Jonathan Herrera all got 3 hits for the Rockies. Matt Holliday had the most hits for the Cardinals (4), followed by Jon Jay (3), and Felipe Lopez (3). Albert Pujols could not get much going at the plate as he left 4 runners on base. The Cardinals managed 7 runs, 16 hits and 2 errors.

Umpiring duties were performed by Gary Darling, Bruce Dreckman, Paul Emmel and Bill Hohn. There were 33,251 Rockies ticket holders in attendance at Coors Field.