The games between two deeply flawed teams were close -- all were determined by one run, two of them in extra innings -- but the series was not. The Cardinals swept the punchless Marlins behind an unlikely power source.
Game One: Cardinals 5, Marlins 4: St. Louis led 5-1 after seven innings innings, but Miami scored twice in the eight to drive Jesse Haines from the mound. Bill Sherdel got the final out of that frame but allowed singles to the first two hitters in the bottom of the ninth. Flint Rehm entered and got three ground all outs to close the win, allowing one inherited runner to score in the process. Mike Gonzalez had two RBIs for the victors.
Game Two: Cardinals 2, Marlins 1: Allan Sotheron threw a four-hitter and singled home the first run of the game. Jorge Alfaro homered for the sole Miami tally. Rogers Hornsby had a single and three walks.
Game Three: Cardinals 3, Marlins 2 (10 innings): Heinie Mueller, a platoon outfielder who had two hmeres in 1924, led off the bottom of the 10th with a walk off shot off Eliser Hernandez. Miami had led 2-0 going to the bottom of the eighth, but Ray Blades greeted Marlins reliever Ryan Stanek with a two-out two-run homer to even the score. Eddie Dyer got the win with two innings of scoreless relief.
Game Four: Cardinals 5, Marlins 4 (11 innings): Mueller repeated his long ball heroics with a two-run homer in the fifth after Miami had taken a 3-0 lead. Sunny Jim Bottomley tied it win the sxith with a solo homer. Blades ultimately delivered the game winning RBI with a single off Stanek.
Projected rotation: Haines-Sotheron-Sherdel-Stuart(?)-(Haines)-)Sotheron)-(Sherdel). No bullpen restrictions to open round two.
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