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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Arizona 7, St. Louis 6
When: 8:15 PM ET, Friday, July 8, 2011
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 86°
Umpires: Home - Ed Rapuano, 1B - Brian O'Nora, 2B - Alfonso Marquez, 3B - Ed Hickox
Attendance: 37160

Kelly Johnson hit a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning and the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks held on for a 7-6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.

Chris Young had a two-run triple and Miguel Montero added an RBI single for Arizona, which has won four of five.

Lance Berkman hit his National League-leading 24th home run and Matt Holliday homered for the fourth time in as many games, but the Cardinals fell to 0-3 since Albert Pujols’ early return from a broken left wrist. Pujols, who had a sacrifice fly, went 0-for-3 and is 1-for-12 since his return.

Johnson put Arizona ahead for good in the seventh when he drilled a 2-2 breaking ball from Kyle Lohse (8-6) over the right field wall and into the Cardinals’ bullpen to make it 7-3.

Holliday led off the eighth with a homer and Daniel Descalso’s two-run double cut the lead to 7-6.

St. Louis threatened in the ninth, but David Hernandez got pinch-hitter Jon Jay to ground out with the tying run on second for his seventh save in nine chances. Hernandez saved it for Ian Kennedy (9-3), who allowed three runs and five hits in six innings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Arizona   St. Louis
Ian Kennedy Player Kyle Lohse
Win W/L Loss
6.0 IP 6.2
3 Strikeouts 3
6 Hits 7
4.50 ERA 9.45
Hitting
Arizona   St. Louis
Chris Young Player Daniel Descalso
2 Hits 2
2 RBI 2
0 HR 0
4 TB 3
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Arizona 9 1 15 .250 9 5 7 3 0 1
St. Louis 11 2 20 .289 21 7 6 4 0 0