Take that Marlins!

As you can guess from the title; this posting is about baseball. Suprise, suprise. I was talking w/ Froggiegirl the other day (whom I had lunch w/ on Thurs.- I ventured the new metrolink in Shrewsberry- very clean and slow at that station, the others are great) and I started talking about my fave baseball team (Cardinals, duh!) and she said "I really don't pay attention to it, if I want to know whats going on I read your blog." That was an awesome compliment! I love sharing my view of baseball and hope that I'm doing a good job. Okay now to the point.
Thursday night, the entire family (mom, dad, me and golum) went to Busch Stadium to see the Cards rough up the Marlins ( Cards beat them 5-1). This was mom's first time to Busch, so we got there early so she could explore. As we pull into our friends lot (we don't have to pay for parking ;)) it starts to rain. These tickets were purchased way back in March- I spent five and a half hours trying to get tickets, and dad walks in and takes over...20 min later he has ticktes...and asks "why did you have trouble?" Grrr. So we were not pleased when it started to rain. Luckily it slowed down, and stopped by the time we entered the stadium. Mom wanted to see the Build-A-Bear Workshop there, as well as the view from the main entrance to the stadium (the diamond). Mom and I go looking at the ppl taking off the tarp, and Dad and golum disapeer...they went to get beer already! Mom and I looked in the Team Store (Dad and golum outside w/ their beers). Finally, we were ready to go to our seats. Well Daniel Boone (golum) (who has only been to the stadium twice) decided that he would lead us to our seats...Dad and I have been there 4 times and know the layout...but nooo Daniel Boone insisist that he knows where he's going. So we venture up to the top level (we had to go up to go down- wierd I know), and then Daniel Boone sees the stairs and says we have to take them. We go down four flights before I start to balk...the stairs only open to three sections- the top most level, the private section, and the bottom level- they don't go to where we want to go- the Loge level. So Dad and I decide to go back up the stairs to the top level and take the ramps to our seats. We got to our seats first, a few min later mom and Daniel Boone show up. They "claimed" that they stopped to look at a store first...yea right.
The begining of the game wasn't good..the Marlins struck first. Their pitcher, Dontrelle Willis, was giving our guys a hard time. Finally we tied it up, then they got a run. In the 7th inning, Chris Duncan pinch hits for So Taguchi. He hits a homerun to tie the game. Pujols walks and goes to third on throwing error, so one on, nobody out. Rolen comes up and gets a base hit, Pujols scores. Encarnacion smacks a double, then Belliard gets a basehit, Rolen and Encarnacion score. Score is now 5-2. Suppan was the starting pitcher, but like Willis he didn't get the win. Braden Looper got the win, and Izzy (the same Izzy who almost blew it w/ bases loaded in the ninth- Pujols and Rolen saved him when the guy-Dan Uggla- on third ventured away and Pujols shot the ball to Rolen who tagged the guy out for the final out- bet Uggla got chewed out when he got to the dugout) got the save. The game was great! The atmosphere was electric, everytime Pujols comes to the plate, the place goes nuts. Fireworks went off for Duncan's 15 HR, and when the game concluded w/a Cards victory. Molina and Suppan were the only Cardinals (not counting pinch hitter Vizciano or Spiezio) w/o hits. Molina's defense speaks for itself. He nailed a runner (Hanley Ramirez- shortstop) trying to steal second base- guy was stupid...he actually thought he could steal w/ Molina behind the plate! Haha, yeah right! Suppan pitched a great game...he is shapping up to be the number 2 ace for the Cards (pitching wise that is).