Final
Ramirez return a success for Marlins
May 20, 2010 - 4:20 AMVideo
ST. LOUIS(AP) -- Hanley Ramirez shrugged off the boos and got back to work.
Ramirez returned to the Florida Marlins' lineup with three hits and Anibal Sanchez threw seven impressive innings Wednesday night in a 5-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
"I'm happy to be in the lineup," Ramirez said. "That's what I like to do, play every day."
As for the negative reaction? "I'm in St. Louis, not Florida."
Ramirez was yanked from Monday's game for loafing and benched Tuesday after criticizing manager Fredi Gonzalez and teammates. The two-time All-Star apologized individually to the Marlins before the game.
Ramirez was booed before three of his first four at-bats. The reigning NL batting champion answered with three singles, two of them infield hits, and drove in a run.
Dan Uggla and Cameron Maybin homered in the same inning for the second straight game for Florida, which has won six of seven. The Cardinals lost for the first time in three games since Albert Pujols was moved to cleanup.
"The little distraction that we had going on, that's in the past," the Marlins Jorge Cantu said. "We're grown-ups, we're professionals.
"Now we have a good thing going here, and we don't want any kind of distractions," he said.
Cardinals rookie Jaime Garcia worked five scoreless innings and has not allowed a run in 19 innings at home. He escaped trouble in all but one inning, stranding nine runners, although the outing was his shortest of the year by an inning.
"Yeah, I was a little bit off," Garcia said. "I couldn't find my rhythm, but I was able to make good pitches when I needed them in tough situations.
"They've got a really good lineup, they were working the pitch counts."
Sanchez (3-2) allowed four hits in seven scoreless innings and didn't give up a hit his last four innings to win his second straight start. He struck out Colby Rasmus all three times and threw a career-high 119 pitches.
"This is the most consistency that I've seen coming out of him," Gonzalez said. "That's good, that's really good."
Matt Holliday had two hits batting third for St. Louis, but struck out in the eighth against Clay Hensley with two on and none out to fall to .160 (8 for 50) with runners in scoring position. Pujols followed with a double-play ball.
"There was real hope there, Albert's the tying run on deck," manager Tony La Russa said. "Matt chased a couple and Albert got in front of one, so it's disappointing."
The Cardinals have totaled four runs on 12 hits the last two games.
Garcia and Cantu are both from Reynosa, Mexico. Cantu tipped his helmet toward the mound before getting an infield hit in the first and was 2 for 3 against the 23-year-old left-hander.
Sanchez, a career .079 hitter, walked on a full count against Blake Hawksworth (0-2) to load the bases ahead of Chris Coghlan's sacrifice fly to open the scoring in the sixth. Ramirez added his second RBI in nine games with an infield hit, and Hawksworth surrendered Uggla's 11th homer and Maybin's third in the seventh.
"The ball was up, I missed spots, got hit," Hawksworth said.
Rasmus doubled and scored on David Freese's single off Burke Badenhop to open the ninth.
NOTES: Ramirez batted .143 (3 for 21) last year against the Cardinals. ... The Marlins are 8-2 when Uggla homers. ... Rasmus batted .400 (8 for 20) last year against the Marlins with two homers, seven RBIs and no strikeouts. ... Cardinals OF prospect Shane Robinson will undergo season-ending surgery for a dislocated left shoulder Thursday in St. Louis. Robinson was injured sliding into second base May 8. ... Ramirez leads Florida with seven infield hits. ... Uggla and Maybin homered in the sixth Tuesday against Arizona.
- Cardinals 1, Marlins 5 - FINAL
FLORIDA ab r h rbi bb so lob avg
C Coghlan lf 4 0 1 1 0 2 0 .223
G Sanchez 1b 5 0 0 0 0 1 3 .282
B Barden pr-3b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .263
H Ramirez ss 5 0 3 1 0 0 1 .303
J Cantu 3b-1b 5 0 2 0 0 2 3 .280
D Uggla 2b 3 2 2 1 2 1 1 .295
C Ros
May 19 11:12 PM - NL
AT ST LOUIS - SCORING UPDATE
SINGLE BY DAVID FREESE SCORED COLBY RASMUS
SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, D FREESE ON FIRST, 0 OUTS
CURRENT SCORE: FLORIDA 5
ST LOUIS 1 BOTTOM,9TH
DUE UP FOR ST LOUIS: Y MOLINA (.266, 1-FOR-3)
Marlins 5, Cardinals 1 Bot 9, 0 OutsMay 19 11:07 PM - NL
AT ST LOUIS - SCORING UPDATE
DOUBLE BY CODY ROSS SCORED DAN UGGLA
SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, C ROSS ON SECOND, 1 OUT
CURRENT SCORE: FLORIDA 5
ST LOUIS 0 TOP,9TH
DUE UP FOR FLORIDA: R PAULINO (.295, 1-FOR-4)
Marlins 5, Cardinals 0 Top 9, 0 OutsMay 19 11:01 PM - NL
AT ST LOUIS - SCORING UPDATE
SOLO HOME RUN BY CAMERON MAYBIN (3) TO LEFT CENTER WITH 2
OUT IN THE 7TH OFF BLAKE HAWKSWORTH.
CURRENT SCORE: FLORIDA 4, ST LOUIS 0
DUE UP FOR FLORIDA: A SANCHEZ (.200, 0-FOR-1, 2 BB)
Marlins 4, Cardinals 0 Top 7, 0 OutsMay 19 10:26 PM - NL
AT ST LOUIS - SCORING UPDATE
SOLO HOME RUN BY DAN UGGLA (11) TO LEFT CENTER WITH 0 OUT IN
THE 7TH OFF BLAKE HAWKSWORTH.
CURRENT SCORE: FLORIDA 3, ST LOUIS 0
DUE UP FOR FLORIDA: C ROSS (.304, 0-FOR-2, BB)
Marlins 3, Cardinals 0 Top 7, 0 OutsMay 19 10:22 PM - NL
AT ST LOUIS - SCORING UPDATE
SINGLE BY HANLEY RAMIREZ SCORED CAMERON MAYBIN
SITUATION: 2 RUNS IN, H RAMIREZ ON FIRST, A SANCHEZ ON SECOND, 2 OUTS
CURRENT SCORE: FLORIDA 2
ST LOUIS 0 TOP,6TH
DUE UP FOR FLORIDA: J CANTU (.284, 2-FOR-3)
Marlins 2, Cardinals 0 Top 6, 0 OutsMay 19 10:11 PM - NL
AT ST LOUIS - SCORING UPDATE
SACRIFICE FLY BY CHRIS COGHLAN SCORED RONNY PAULINO
SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, A SANCHEZ ON FIRST, C MAYBIN ON SECOND, 1 OUT
CURRENT SCORE: FLORIDA 1
ST LOUIS 0 TOP,6TH
DUE UP FOR FLORIDA: G SANCHEZ (.287, 0-FOR-3)
Marlins 1, Cardinals 0 Top 6, 0 OutsMay 19 10:06 PM
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