Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Atlanta 6, St. Louis 5
When: 2:15 PM ET, Sunday, May 18, 2014
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 66°
Umpires: Home - Eric Cooper, 1B - Chris Guccione, 2B - Sean Barber, 3B - Ron Kulpa
Attendance: 44278


Braves 6, Cardinals 5: Ryan Doumit scored on a wild pitch with two outs in the ninth inning as visiting Atlanta rallied to salvage the final game of its weekend series.

Jordan Schafer drew a bases-loaded walk from St. Louis closer Trevor Rosenthal (0-2) on a 3-2 pitch to tie the game and Doumit came home on Carlos Martinez’s wild pitch to give the Braves just their sixth victory in 16 games this month. David Carpenter (3-0) earned the victory, Freddie Freeman finished with three hits - ncluding a homer - and three RBIs and Craig Kimbrel notched his 11th save.

The Cardinals wasted Jaime Garcia’s seven-inning performance in his first start in a year. Kolten Wong doubled home three runs, Yadier Molina finished 2-for-4 with a run scored and Matt Carpenter had two hits and walked three times, but Rosenthal – gunning for his fourth save in as many days – surrendered two runs on two hits and two walks in two-thirds of an inning.

Justin Upton hit a solo homer in the fourth and Freeman’s two-run double in the sixth tied the game at 4-4, but Schafer lost Jhonny Peralta’s fly ball in the sun in the seventh, allowing Molina to score and put St. Louis ahead 5-4. Freeman led off the ninth with a single, Pinch hitter Doumit doubled with two outs and, after Rosenthal intentionally walked pinch hitter Evan Gattis, Schafer took a 3-2 pitch that just missed the corner and Doumit raced home when Martinez’s third pitch skated by Molina.

Freeman hit a solo homer in the first, but Wong lined a bases-clearing double in the second after Atlanta catcher Gerald Laird’s passed ball on strike three to Peter Bourjos extended the inning. Kimbrel allowed a single by Matt Adams in the ninth but struck out Bourjos to end the game.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Atlanta starter Gavin Floyd allowed four runs – one earned – on seven hits with three walks and four strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. … Garcia, who had not pitched since May 17, 2013, due to surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff, gave up four runs on five hits with five strikeouts. … Peralta has reached base via hit or walk in 20 of his last 21 games.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Atlanta   St. Louis
Gavin Floyd Player Jaime Garcia
No Decision W/L No Decision
5.1 IP 7.0
4 Strikeouts 5
7 Hits 5
1.69 ERA 5.14
Hitting
Atlanta   St. Louis
Freddie Freeman Player Matt Carpenter
3 Hits 2
3 RBI 0
1 HR 0
6 TB 2
1.000 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Atlanta 7 2 15 .226 9 7 5 4 0 0
St. Louis 11 0 13 .314 26 6 5 5 0 0