Saturday, 3 March 2012

Younger Benes Lifts Cards

Rookie Alan Benes, making his fifth career start, pitched afour-hitter to lead St. Louis to a 4-1 victory over visiting Montrealon Wednesday.

Benes (1-0), the younger brother and teammate of Andy Benes,took a three-hit shutout into the ninth, but Rondell White led offwith a homer. Benes struck out a career-high 11 and walked two inhis first complete game.

Ray Lankford homered for the Cardinals, who won despite going0-for-8 with runners in scoring position. St. Louis is batting just.183 this season in those situations.Reds 9, Mets 7: Eddie Taubensee drove in four runs and EricDavis doubled home the tie-breaking run in the seventh inning torally host Cincinnati …

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