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Article: Home runs help Cards avoid Giant-sized sweep
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 4, 2003
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The St. Louis Cardinals took three days of frustration out on Kirk
Rueter.
Albert Pujols and Edgar Renteria hit three-run homers off Rueter
in an eight-run second inning as the host Cardinals beat the San
Francisco Giants 9-5 Thursday to avoid a four-game sweep.
"Most of the first three days you've just got to give their
pitchers credit for making quality pitches at the right time,"
manager Tony La Russa said. "I really thought the club geared up to
salvage something."
The Giants were trying to complete the franchise's first four-
game sweep at St. Louis since the great Christy Mathewson finished
off the Cardinals on May 9, 1912.
Instead, the Cardinals roughed up Rueter (7-3), with Pujols ...