Milwaukee Brewers @ St Louis Cardinals (game 2)

I took the metro to the ballgame tonight (from Laclede's Landing!), and wore my long trousers and took my coat.  Tonight, I was in the back row of the bottom section on the end of a row.  This block was down the 3rd base line but still had an excellent view.

Adam Wainwright was pitching for the Cardinals tonight, trying to get his league-lead-typing 19th win of the season, up against Mick Fiers of the Brewers, making his first start since his start against Miami when he hit Giancarlo Stanton in the face, unintentionally.

Neither pitcher had control problems tonight as the game motored along with no score and just half a dozen hits for the Brewers.  Fiers took a no-hit bid into the 6th inning when Wainwright singled to break up the no-hitter.  Eventually, the Cardinals pushed a couple of runs across in the 7th inning which proved to be enough as Wainwright finished off the game himself, pitching a 7-hit complete game shut-out.  The Cards only got 3 hits, but they got them in bunches and in combination with a fielding error, which was mostly triggered by a slip in the outfield that allowed the first run to score.


The game was over in two and a half hours, which is far more like it - it didn't actually get cold either tonight, with the temperature staying at around 17C/63F for the whole game.  I took the metro back to the hotel again and watched the end of ESPN's Wednesday Night Baseball, featuring the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim against the Seattle Mariners.  The Angels won that that and later on, due to Oakland giving up 6 late runs to Texas, clinched the AL West division title.  So that's half the divisions clinched.  It's going to be a few days before the others are sorted out, as the key series get underway over this weekend: Royals/Tigers, Giants/Dodgers and the matchups involving the Cardinals/Brewers/Pirates all struggling for the NL Central.