Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
LA Dodgers 13, St. Louis 2
When: 8:15 PM ET, Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 93°
Umpires: Home - Jim Wolf, 1B - Mark Wegner, 2B - Ron Kulpa, 3B - Derryl Cousins
Attendance: 37062
Where: Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri
Temperature: 93°
Umpires: Home - Jim Wolf, 1B - Mark Wegner, 2B - Ron Kulpa, 3B - Derryl Cousins
Attendance: 37062
Rod Barajas hit two home runs and Clayton Kershaw pitched six shutout innings as the Los Angeles Dodgers cruised to a 13-2 victory over the host St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday.
Kershaw (16-5), a National League Cy Young Award candidate, allowed six hits, walked two and struck out eight.
The Cardinals fell 10 games behind Milwaukee in the NL Central and 10 1/2 behind Atlanta in the wild card.
Matt Kemp hit a three-run homer in the first off Kyle Lohse (11-8) and the Dodgers added four runs in the second, capped by Juan Rivera's two-run single.
Lohse allowed eight runs and eight hits in three innings.
Barajas hit a solo home run in the third and added a three-run shot in the fifth to stretch the lead to 11-0.
Aaron Miles' two-run homer in the ninth made it 13-0 before Jon Jay's two-run single in the bottom half.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| LA Dodgers | St. Louis | |
| Clayton Kershaw | Player | Kyle Lohse |
| Win | W/L | Loss |
| 6.0 | IP | 3.0 |
| 8 | Strikeouts | 3 |
| 6 | Hits | 8 |
| 0.00 | ERA | 24.00 |
Hitting
| LA Dodgers | St. Louis | |
| Jamey Carroll | Player | Allen Craig |
| 3 | Hits | 2 |
| 0 | RBI | 0 |
| 0 | HR | 0 |
| 3 | TB | 2 |
| .750 | Avg | .500 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
| LA Dodgers | 14 | 4 | 30 | .350 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Louis | 9 | 0 | 11 | .265 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |