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GAME LOG
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Jay Bell seemed to always be in the center of
everything Monday night.
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Bell scored a run, drove in the go-ahead run and took out an
umpire with a throw in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 2-1 victory over
the St. Louis Cardinals.
"He came up with a big base hit for us, and I'm sure he'd
rather forget the other play," manager Bob Brenly said.
Bell doubled and scored on Greg Colbrunn's single in the first,
and his RBI single off Matt Morris snapped a seventh-inning tie.
In the sixth, he accidentally hit umpire Larry Young in the
forehead with a throw, bloodying Young's face, jacket and pants.
The game was completed with three umpires and the wound required 14
stitches.
"There was a river of blood coming out," Diamondbacks first
baseman Mark Grace said. "He got filleted right about where your
eyebrow starts."
Young was injured after Pujols hit with one out in the sixth
caromed high into the air off the second-base bag. Bell fielded the
ball in shallow center field, and when he wheeled to make the
throw, Young was directly in his path and just a few feet away.
Young was taken to Barnes Hospital for precautionary tests. Dr.
George Paletta, the Cardinals' team physician, didn't expect Young
to be able to return to action on Tuesday.
Bell, who visited the umpires' room after the game to make sure
Young was all right, said he was able to block it out because it
was an accident.
"Certainly, I feel terrible about it," Bell said. "And
certainly, my heart is freed up because I didn't do it on purpose.
Certainly, nobody ever wants to see anything like that, but I've
seen it before."
Robert Ellis, whose contract was purchased from Triple-A Tucson
earlier in the day due to Brian Anderson's thumb injury, won in his
first appearance since 1996, when he made three outings with the
California Angels. Ellis (1-0) gave up one run and five hits in six
innings.
"If he could have thrown a nine-inning no-hitter, it would have
been a little better," Brenly said. "But I don't think I could
have asked for anything more than that."
Rookie Albert Pujols extended his hitting streak to 10 games,
and Mike Matheny had a sixth-inning sacrifice fly for the
Cardinals, who have lost four of five.
Morris (1-2) allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings.
"He does not deserve to be the losing pitcher," manager Tony
La Russa said. "There's not justice in this game a lot of times."
Matheny's sacrifice fly tied it in the sixth as Pujols barely
beat center fielder Steve Finley's relay. Pujols made a hook slide
and missed the plate with his foot, but touched it with his hand.
Matt Mantei pitched a perfect ninth for his second save. Mantei
gave up a game-winning three-run homer to Todd Hollandworth in a
10-7, 10-inning loss on Sunday.
Game notes
Ellis is the 20th starter used by the Diamondbacks in their
four-year history. ... Bell has two hits in each of the last four
games, and is 12-for-28 his last 10 games. ... Erubiel Durazo is
3-for-22 against the Cardinals in his career. ... Pujols is
18-for-36 during his hitting streak. He was 7-for-14 with eight
RBIs in the Cardinals' three-game sweep at Arizona April 6-8. ...
The Cardinals have been outscored 25-11 the first two innings. ...
Steve Finley was 0-for-3 with a walk and is hitless in 29 at-bats.
He's 3-for-41 (.073) overall.
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Boston 4
NY Yankees 1
Baltimore 6
Tampa Bay 2
Kansas City 5
Minnesota 3
Oakland 6
Anaheim 3
Seattle 9
Texas 7
Pittsburgh 3
Houston 0
NY Mets 4
Montreal 3
Atlanta 4
Florida 3
Philadelphia 0
Chicago Cubs 0
Arizona 2
St. Louis 1
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