Cards vs. Pirates

April 9, 2007
St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 0
Winning pitcher - Braden Looper (1-1)
SV - Jason Isringhausen (2)

April 10, 2007
St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2
Winning pitcher - Brad Thompson (1-0)
SV - Jason Isringhausen (3)

April 11, 2007
St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2
Winning pitcher - Ryan Franklin (1-0)
HR: Chris Duncan (2)

Milestone watch:
Albert Pujols needs 4 home runs to tie Ken Boyer for 2nd on the Cardinals all-time home runs list with 255.
Albert Pujols needs 4 3 walks for 500 career walks.
Jim Edmonds needs 7 6 5 games to reach 1,000 games played as a St. Louis Cardinal.
Adam Kennedy needs 36 hits for 1,000 career hits.
Scott Rolen needs 1 stolen base for 100 career stolen bases.
Russ Springer needs 2 strikeouts for 500 National League Strikeouts.
Jason Isringhausen needs 1 save for 250 saves as a St. Louis Cardinal.
Jason Isringhausen needs 2 1 saves for 252 saves to tie Dave Righetti for 25th on the all-time list.
Jason Isringhausen needs 4 saves for 256 saves to tie Todd Worrell for 24th on the all-time list.
David Eckstein needs 1 run for 500 career runs.

Cardinals staff and alumni have recieved their rings.

Then the Cardinals' players, coaches, trainers and support personnel who were part of the wild 2006 championship ride fairly bounded out of the first-base dugout before the Cardinals-New York Mets game Tuesday night at Busch Stadium to get their World Series rings — the last, and most striking, of the spoils for the club's 10th World Series title.

Hall of Famers Bruce Sutter, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Red Schoendienst and Stan Musial also were presented rings, although their World Series days were well behind them.

Sutter, a staple of the 1982 World Series champion Cardinals and a newly minted Hall of Famer last year, said he was surprised — and flattered — that the Cardinals would give him a 2006 World Series ring.

Star pitcher Chris Carpenter was placed on the DL and Albert Pujols is still struggling to find his swing which proves to show, he's only human.