ST. LOUIS (AP) --
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Albert Pujols hit his fifth home run in five
games - and the longest homer at Busch Stadium this season - and
Adam Wainwright worked seven strong innings to help the St. Louis
Cardinals rout the Detroit Tigers and ace Justin Verlander 11-2 on
Tuesday night.
Pujols also drew his major league-leading 19th and 20th
intentional walks in only semi-threatening situations before lining
his 23rd homer an estimated 446 feet over the left field wall off
Ryan Perry to start the sixth. Chris Duncan followed with a
418-foot shot that gave the light-hitting Cardinals back-to-back
homers for the first time all season.
Verlander (7-3) lasted four innings in the Tigers' first game in
St. Louis since losing the clinching Game 5 of the 2006 World
Series.
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