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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
St. Louis 8, San Diego 3
When: 6:35 PM ET, Thursday, May 27, 2010
Where: Petco Park, San Diego, California
Temperature: 75°
Umpires: Home - Dale Scott, 1B - Jerry Meals, 2B - Mark Wegner, 3B - Dan Iassogna
Attendance: 20583

Brendan Ryan went 4-for-4 and Albert Pujols had three RBIs as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals avoided a three-game series sweep by posting an 8-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday.

Ryan scored three runs and hit his first homer of the season in the fifth inning. He singled three times and also stole a base.

Pujols also homered in the fifth for his first homer since May 14 and drove in runs with a fielder’s choice and a sacrifice fly.

P.J. Walters (1-0) pitched five shutout innings to record his first major-league victory. Walters gave up four hits and two walks and struck out four.

St. Louis led 6-0 after Matt Holliday’s RBI single in the seventh before the Padres crawled back within reach. San Diego scored three runs in the bottom of the inning, including a run-scoring single by Jerry Hairston Jr., who hit game-winning homers in each of the first two games of the series.

Ryan Ludwick, who went 3-for-5, moved the game back out of reach with a two-run single in the eighth.

San Diego starter Wade LeBlanc (2-3) allowed four runs and nine hits in 5 2/3 innings.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
St. Louis   San Diego
P.J. Walters Player Wade LeBlanc
Win W/L Loss
5.0 IP 5.2
4 Strikeouts 2
4 Hits 9
0.00 ERA 6.35
Hitting
St. Louis   San Diego
Brendan Ryan Player Jerry Hairston Jr.
4 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
1 HR 0
7 TB 2
1.000 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
St. Louis 15 2 24 .405 17 5 8 3 1 2
San Diego 10 0 11 .270 20 5 2 4 0 0