Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
St. Louis 9, Seattle 3
When: 7:05 PM ET, Monday, June 14, 2010
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 87°
Umpires: Home - Fieldin Culbreth, 1B - Marty Foster, 2B - Gary Cederstrom, 3B - Ed Hickox
Attendance: 36113

Ryan Ludwick homered and drove in four runs and Colby Rasmus added a two-run homer as the St. Louis Cardinals secured a 9-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in the first game of an interleague series on Monday.

Albert Pujols finished with three hits and an RBI and Matt Holliday had a pair of hits and scored twice for St. Louis, which entered having dropped six of seven.

Adam Wainwright (9-4) pitched seven strong innings, allowing three runs on six hits to get the win.

One of the hits came from Ichiro Suzuki, who opened the game with a leadoff home run, his second of the season.

Trailing 2-0, the Cardinals took the lead in the bottom of the first on Ludwick’s three-run blast and didn’t look back, scoring four in the fifth inning for an 8-2 advantage.

Seattle starter Luke French (0-1) was tagged with the loss, giving up four runs on six hits over four innings.

Chone Figgins and Jose Lopez each drove in runs for the Mariners, who dropped to 9-23 on the road.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Seattle   St. Louis
Lucas French Player Adam Wainwright
Loss W/L Win
4.0 IP 7.0
0 Strikeouts 6
6 Hits 6
9.00 ERA 3.86
Hitting
Seattle   St. Louis
Chone Figgins Player Albert Pujols
2 Hits 3
1 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
.667 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Seattle 6 1 11 .182 11 7 3 2 0 2
St. Louis 12 2 20 .343 16 3 8 5 0 1