HOUSTON — the St. Louis Cardinals cardinals, beat the Astros astros, 7-0, Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park, making it nine wins in their last thirteen games, the Cardinals notched back to .500 for the 1st time since 16th April. On the same night Milwaukee lost to Chicago, moving St. Louis into second place on the National League Central, 2 games a drift the leading Cubs and a half-game ahead of the Brewers.
Chris Duncan made four runs and thumped his 1st home run in a month, Looper Russ, Springer and Troy Percival put together a 6-hit shutout as the Cardinals put a blemish on Cecil Cooper’s first outing as manager with the Astros. The victory over the Astros, was La Russa’s 1,041 career win equaling Red Schoendienst record of career wins for any manager in franchise history.