Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
St. Louis 4, Atlanta 3
When: 8:15 PM ET, Monday, April 26, 2010
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 54°
Umpires: Home - Jerry Meals, 1B - Mark Wegner, 2B - Dan Iassogna, 3B - Dale Scott
Attendance: 35257

Yadier Molina doubled in the tiebreaking run in the bottom of the eighth inning to help the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Monday.

The loss was the sixth in a row for Atlanta, which is 8-11 and in last place in the National League East.

Dennys Reyes (2-0) worked an inning of relief and Ryan Franklin pitched the ninth for his seventh save.

St. Louis tied the game with two runs in the seventh. Colby Rasmus hit a leadoff homer and pinch hitter Bryan Anderson doubled in the tying run with two outs.

The Braves, who scored just six runs during the previous five losses, jumped out to a 3-0 lead off St. Louis starter Kyle Lohse.

Pitcher Tim Hudson led off the Atlanta third with a single and later scored on Brian McCann’s bases-loaded sacrifice play. Tony Glaus followed with a single that scored Martin Prado.

In the fourth, Melky Cabrera opened with a single and scored on Nate McLouth’s double.

The Cardinals got their first run in the sixth on Albert Pujols’ groundout that scored Skip Schumaker. Molina’s hit off Takashi Saito (0-1) later plated Pujols.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Atlanta   St. Louis
Tim Hudson Player Kyle Lohse
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 6.0
4 Strikeouts 2
6 Hits 7
4.50 ERA 4.50
Hitting
Atlanta   St. Louis
Troy Glaus Player Albert Pujols
2 Hits 3
1 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 4
.667 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Atlanta 9 0 10 .281 12 3 3 4 0 0
St. Louis 9 1 15 .300 16 6 4 5 1 0