Cardinals 3, Cubs 2 (10)
Albert Pujols hit a walk-off home run in extra innings for the second day in a row as the St. Louis Cardinals came from behind to complete a three-game sweep of the visiting Chicago Cubs, 3-2, in 10 innings on Sunday.
For the second straight day, Cubs manager Mike Quade elected to pitch to Pujols with the bases empty in extra innings. Again, the decision burned him. Pujols led off the 10th against Rodrigo Lopez (0-1) and drove a 2-1 fastball over the inside part of the plate into the left field seats for his 13th homer.
Pujols homered four times and went 6-for-11 with seven RBIs in the three-game series.
St. Louis was down to its final strike in the bottom of the ninth when Ryan Theriot turned on a slider from Carlos Marmol and sent a double down the left field line, scoring pinch runner Tony Cruz all the way from first with the tying run.
The late-inning fireworks obscured a pitchers duel between starters Chris Carpenter and Carlos Zambrano. Carpenter went the first nine innings for the Cardinals before yielding to Fernando Salas (3-0), who pitched a perfect 10th to grab the win.