St. Louis Cardinals vs. Atlanta Braves – Box Score – September 10, 2010 – ESPN.

You gotta love the big inning.

Mike Minor was victimized, primarily, by the opposing starter. (See, LaRussa knows it’s a good idea to hit the pitcher eighth!) In the second, Chris Carpenter gave the Cards the lead with a two-out single. Nate McLouth tied it up with a solo homer in the second.

Then it was the Cards’ turn to get homers, a two-run shot in the third, then a solo shot by Carpenter in the fourth, making it 4-1 at the time. Brian McCann singled in Martin Prado in the bottom of the inning, cutting it to 4-2. Minor left after pitching to one man in the sixth. In the bottom of that inning, the floodgates opened.

Brooks Conrad, Folk Hero, hit for Peter Moylan and singled. Omar Infante reached on one of his many infield singles, and Jason Heyward drove Conrad home with another single to make it 4-3. Prado came up with the big blow, a double to score Infante to tie it, moving Heyward to third. McCann hit what should have been a go-ahead flyout, but the outfielder botched it and both Heyward and Prado scored, with McCann getting to second. Derrek Lee singled him in to make it 7-4. Because things were going so well, Bobby had McLouth bunt (the Cards can’t get an out, let’s give them one!), Alex Gonzalez singled Lee to third, and he scored on a Melky Cabrera sac fly, 8-4.

Since nothing is ever easy, Jonny Venters allowed two runs, one “unearned”, in a flaky seventh where he didn’t allow any hard hits but the defense didn’t do him a lot of favors. As designed, Takashi Saito and Billy Wagner mowed the Cards down in the eighth and ninth respectively. Bleeding stopped, for now.