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Leake cruises as Cards rain homers on Halos
- Updated: May 11, 2016
ANAHEIM — Mike Leake, struggling through his first five weeks of the season, picked up his first win with the Cardinals in dominating fashion on Tuesday night, twirling eight innings of one-run ball while leading his team to an 8-1 victory over the Angels at Angel Stadium.
The Cardinals (17-16) hit four home runs, two of them off the bat of Matt Carpenter, and scored four runs in the fifth inning, ending Angels starter Hector Santiago’s start. Leake entered with a 6.03 ERA and was winless through his first six starts, but he shut the Angels out through the first seven frames and at one point retired 14 consecutive hitters.
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The Cardinals took a 4-0 lead with a two-run homer by Randal Grichuk, who took Javy Guerra deep on the first pitch he threw in relief of Santiago. In the sixth, Carpenter and Matt Holliday went deep off A.J. Achter. St. Louis had managed only four home runs in its previous six games.
The Angels, dealing with constant injuries to their pitching staff and perpetual struggles with their lineup, have dropped four in a row to move to 13-19.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDDelayed debut: Grichuk, drafted by the Angels in 2009, made his first appearance at Angel Stadium and showed the home crowd a glimpse of what could have been. Grichuk reached base four times and smashed a two-run homer just beyond the reach of a leaping Mike Trout, …
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