Four games into the series, the Cardinals not only held a 3-1 lead but had used just four pitchers and 10 positiom players. Three games later, it was the Padres movung on to the second round, even though St. Louis scored six more runs in total.
Game One: Cardinals 4, Padres 1: Mike Shannon hammered a two-run homer and Bob Gibsom fanned 10 in his five-hitter. Joe Torre scored a pair of runs for the Cardinals.
Game Two: Cardinals 3, Padres 0: Steve Carlton made it two straight complete game wns for the Cardinals, shutting out San Diego despite allowing seven hits and five walks, The Cards plated all three runs in the first inning, with Lou Brock opening the game with a triple and Vada Pinson following a Jake Peavy error with a double.
Game Three: Padres 3, Cardinals 2: Adrian Gonzalez and Max Venable had RBI doubles in the first inning and the Padres kept the lead for the duration. The Padres used five pitchers to secure the win, with Joe Thatcher getting credit for the W.
Game Four: Cardinals 8, Padres 1: Gibson again went the distance, throwing a seven-hitter with five walks. Brock had a base-leaded triple and Torre a two-run homer in the Cards' six-run third inning.
Game Five: Padres 2, Cardinals 1: Keven Correia outdueled Carlton in what proved the turning point of the series. Torre opened the scoring in the top of the seventh with a homer off Correia, but Henry Blanco doubled in Kevin Kouzmanoff in the bottom of the frame to tie it. (Curt Flood cut down Scott Hairton at the plate to end the inning on the same play.) The Padres took the lead in the eighth as Will Venable singled in Everth Cabrera with two outs, and Heath Bell worked a perfect ninth to secure the win.
Game Six: Padres 7, Cardinals 5: St. Louis plated four runs in the first off Chris Young, but the Padres responded with five in the second to drive Mike Torrez from the hill. Venable and Tony Gwinn Jr eadh homered. Young followed his messy first inning with four scoreless frames and wound up with the series-evening win.
Game Seven: Padres 6, St. Louis 3: Gibson, so dominant in his first two starts, yielded four runs on 10 hits in seven innings. Gonzalez and Venable each homered, and Nick Hundley had an RBI triple. Chad Gaudin went six-plus innings and had a four-run lead before allowing a baserunner. Thatcher, Luke Gregorson and Bell each got three outs to close out the game and the series.
Projected rotation: The Padres will replace four of the five men who started in the first round and go Correia-Greer-Stauffer-Latos-(Correia)-(LeBlanc)-(Greer). No bullpen restrictions for the Padres.
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