It’s a good thing for the St. Louis Cardinals, giving up 20 runs, does not count as anything more than a loss in the W/L Standings. Without All Star first basemen, and with a horrible pitching outing by Todd Wellemeyer the Cardinals fell on Friday night 20-2.

The Phillies scored 3 in the first, 1 in the second, 9 runs in the fourth, 1 in the fifth, 3 in the sixth, and 3 more in the eighth, while the Cardinals picked up a tally in both the third and the sixth inning.

In the first inning after two men were retired Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Pat Burrell hit back to back to back homeruns, to put the Phillies up 3-0 early. Utley ended up 2-3 on the day, and Howard finished 3-5 with 2 homeruns, and 5 rbi’s. Pitcher Kyle Kendrick also got in on the action, getting two basehits, both in the fourth inning.

For the Cardinals, Skip Schumaker had three hits, and Troy Glaus had two, and they were the only two to drive in runs for the Cardinals.

Kendrick went 7 innings, gave up 8 hits, 2 runs, 1 earned, walking one and striking out one.

Wellemeyer only went 3.1 innings, giving up 8 hits, 8 runs, all earned, 3 walks, 3 strikeouts, and gave up 3 homeruns to drop to 7-2 on the season.

Utility man Aaron Miles pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the Cardinals.