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St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Mike Moustakas scored on an Albert Pujols fielding error in the eighth inning, as Kansas City topped St. Louis, 5-4, in the opener of a three-game set at Busch Stadium. Moustakas walked leading off the eighth, advanced to second on a Matt Treanor sacrifice bunt. After Chris Getz lined out, Alcides Escobar grounded a ball toward Pujols at first, but the ball went under his glove and rolled into right field. Alex Gordon slapped a two-RBI single and Jeff Francoeur picked up a run- scoring base hit for the Royals, who blew a 3-0 lead but managed to snap a two-game skid. Lance Berkman had a three-run double for St. Louis, losers of seven in a row. Chris Carpenter (1-7) pitched eight innings in defeat, giving up five runs -- four earned -- on 10 hits. He had seven strikeouts, but has gone 0-5 over his last seven appearances. I dont know what the deal is, Carpenter said. I felt like I had good stuff and made pretty good pitches, they got some runs and some hits and we lost. Blake Wood (3-0) tossed a scoreless seventh for the Royals to pick up the victory. Joakim Soria pitched the ninth to earn his 11th save of the season. St. Louis brought Pujols to the plate with one out in the bottom of the ninth, with a chance to tie or win the game after Jon Jay singled, but he grounded a ball to third base. Moustakas threw to second for the force out to end the game. Kansas City used three singles by Melky Cabrera, Eric Hosmer and Francoeur to plate a run in the first inning. The Royals put runners on second and third with only one out in the second inning on singles by Getz and Escobar. Both men scored on a bloop single to left by Gordon. The Cardinals rallied for four runs in the third to take the lead. Two walks and a single from Jay loaded the bases for Matt Holliday, who was plunked by a Felipe Paulino pitch to gift the Cardinals their first run. The bags remained loaded for Berkman, who has six career grand slams, but he settled for a three run double down the line in right. Tyler Greene struck out swinging to end the inning, leaving the bases full again. He totally lost it, he just lost it, Royals manager Ned Yost said of his starting pitcher. He went and got two quick outs and the key was the walk to [Skip] Schumaker. Those guys at the top of that order, youve gotta make them swing the bats. The Royals came right back in the fourth. With runners at the corners, Paulino sent a bunt in front of the plate. Catcher Tony Cruz elected to go for the force-out at second. Once Cruz let the ball go, Getz broke for the plate and beat the return throw home from shortstop Greene. The Royals put two runners on in the seventh with one out on singles by Cabrera and pinch-hitter Mitch Maier. Carpenter escaped trouble by striking out Hosmer and Francoeur. GAME NOTES:Tony La Russa managed his 2,500th game in a St. Louis Cardinals uniform...St. Louis leads the all-time series against KC, 36-28...The season series between the Missouri rivals stands knotted at two games apiece...Paulino tossed six innings, giving up five hits...Carpenter threw 124 pitches. wholesale jerseys china . They did a lot of winning together in college, and Wednesday nights game against an NBA playoff contender was no different. Davis had 16 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks while Miller capped a 16-point outing with a pair of clutch jumpers, and the under-manned Pelicans won their fourth straight, 98-96 over the Los Angeles Clippers. cheap jerseys china . The 26-year-old Messi doubled over during Argentinas 0-0 draw against Romania on Wednesday. Martino thought Messi had the flu before a 3-1 loss to Real Sociedad nearly two weeks ago. But the Argentine coach has changed his thinking since. http://www.jerseyswholesalecheapnfl.com/. "For the past several weeks, Logan has been dealing and playing with an upper body injury," said general manager Doug Wilson in a statement. "Despite his efforts to play through it, the injury has not responded as we had hoped and Logan has made the decision to undergo a surgical procedure to repair the problem. cheap jerseys . Messis scoring display was a fitting farewell for the coach who helped the Argentina forward become the worlds best player and forged Barcelona into one of the best teams to have played football. After scoring his Spanish league-record 50th goal late on, Messi went to the sideline to embrace Guardiola, who is leaving after 13 titles in four seasons. cheap jerseys free shipping . -- On just about any other day, Steve Strickers 60 in the opening round of last years John Deere Classic would have left him comfortably ahead and soaking in the adulation.NASHVILLE -- The Los Angeles Kings appear to have put their scoring woes behind them. Justin Williams scored twice to lead the Kings to a 5-4 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. Drew Doughty, Matt Greene, and Trevor Lewis also scored to help Los Angeles win its third straight. Patric Hornqvist scored twice and Martin Erat and Sergei Kostitsyn had the other goals for Nashville, loser of two of its last three. With the score tied 3-3 after two periods, Greene put the Kings ahead at 1:15 of the third on a slap shot from the right point. Lewis had a tap in from just off the left post at 3:00 to make it 5-3. Hornqvists 20th of the season pulled the Predators within one with 5:18 to go. "We got close," Hornqvist said. "I thought after that, it was all about us and they backed up. In the neutral zone, they took away our speed. We cant let five goals in a game. We need to clean up defensively." Williams has 15 goals on the season, and three in his last three games. He has five points in three games against Nashville this season. Predators goalie Pekka Rinne was removed after Lewis scored. The NHLs leader in goaltending victories gave up five goals on the 24 shots he faced and was replaced by backup Anders Lindback. "To me, it just wasnt Peks night," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said. "We werent helping him a whole lot. You have to help him in the crease area. Four is usually my limit with Peks, and I thought we still had a lot of game to go with, and I thought I would give him one more." Erat tied the score at 2 at 9:16 of the second with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle that beat Kings goalie Jonathan Quick on the short side. Mike Fisher had an assist on the goal for his 400th career point. Quick made 22 saves en route to his first-ever victory over Nashville.dddddddddddd "They are a good team," Quick said. "They are tough to beat. "We scored some timely goals. This was a huge two points for us." Doughty put the Kings ahead with 7:39 to go in the period and Kostitsyn tied it 3-3 with 5:55 remaining. "Our defencemen scored two goals by getting shots through, getting it past the first guy," Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter said. "That really was the difference. Our defence was more involved offensively than they have been." Williams scored the games first goal at 6:16 of the opening period. From just below the goal line to the right of the Nashville goal, he sent the puck toward an out-of-position Rinne and the puck bounced off the goalies right skate and then tricked across the line. "We wanted to make Rinne work tonight," Williams said. "We felt the last few games we havent gotten as much shots on net as we should have. We tried to put as many as we could at him." Hornqvist tied it with 1:19 left in the period with a wrist shot from the high slot that beat Quick high to the glove side. Williams put Los Angeles back ahead 12 seconds later. Driving toward the Nashville net on the left side, he got just enough of Slava Voynovs pass from above the right circle to put it over Rinnes right pad. It was the first time since Feb. 7 the Predators allowed more than one goal in the first period. NOTES: Los Angeles D Rob Scuderi played in his 200th consecutive game. ... Kings D Willie Mitchell had two assists Tuesday, his second multipoint game of this season. ... Nashville LW Andrei Kostitsyn has three points in his last two games. ... The Predators have not scored a power-play goal in their last four games. ' ' '