Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
St. Louis 6, Oakland 4
When: 8:15 PM ET, Friday, June 18, 2010
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 83°
Umpires: Home - Angel Hernandez, 1B - Joe West, 2B - Dan Bellino, 3B - Rob Drake
Attendance: 40083

Chris Carpenter overcame a shaky second inning and Skip Schumaker drove in the go-ahead run with a ground-rule double in the seventh, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-4 win over the Oakland A's on Friday night.

Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer in the first and finished with three hits and three RBIs.

Oakland scored all of its runs in the second off Carpenter. Rajai Davis, who went 4-for-5, had an RBI single. Connor Jackson, recently acquired in a trade with Arizona, put the A's ahead with a two-run double, before Kurt Suzuki's RBI single made it a 4-2 game.

Carpenter (8-1) allowed four runs and 10 hits while striking out five and walking two.

Run-scoring singles by Holliday and Albert Pujols tied the game in the fifth.

St. Louis took the lead for good in the seventh against reliever Brad Ziegler (2-4). Schumaker's double broke the tie before Ryan Ludwick's RBI single made it 6-4.

Ryan Franklin pitched the ninth for his 13th save in 14 chances.

Oakland starter Vin Mazzaro allowed four runs in five innings in the no-decision.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Oakland   St. Louis
Vin Mazzaro Player Chris Carpenter
No Decision W/L Win
5.0 IP 7.0
5 Strikeouts 5
6 Hits 10
7.20 ERA 5.14
Hitting
Oakland   St. Louis
Rajai Davis Player Matt Holliday
4 Hits 3
1 RBI 3
0 HR 1
5 TB 6
.800 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Oakland 10 0 13 .286 14 6 4 1 0 0
St. Louis 9 1 14 .290 11 8 6 5 0 1