And then there was one winless team left in the NL Central. I mean someone had to win the battle between the 0-3 Cardinals and the 0-3 Astros tonight. The Cardinals did just that on the arm of Adam Wainwright, who looked very good in his first career start. After two nights of Braden Looper and Kip Wells not living up to their spring performances, Wainwright turned in seven strong innings of five hit, one run ball. He even helped his own cause at the plate by doubling a run in and scoring on Chris Duncan's two run homer in the third. Jason Isringhausen also nailed down his first save since going on the DL last year, though he did give up a run before nailing it down.
The winless Astros got seven strong innings from Wandy Rodriguez, but that wasn't enough to pull them out of their slump because their offense failed to get going for the fourth straight game. Carlos Lee knocked in a run and scored the other run and each of the Astros three through seven hitters had a hit tonight, it's just that those hits didn't come at the same time. With the 'Stros two runs tonight, they've scored a whopping 10 runs in their first four games. You don't win many games that way.
Roy Oswalt will take the hill again tomorrow against Anthony Reyes hoping to replicate his dominant opening day performance and put a tally in the W column for the Astros.
