Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature: 83°
Umpires: Home - Marty Foster, 1B - Gary Cederstrom, 2B - Ed Hickox, 3B - Fieldin Culbreth
Attendance: 24167
Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer to help the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday.
Arizona reliever Blaine Boyer (1-2) gave-up the go-ahead run in the eighth inning after Cody Rasmus greeted him with a double and scored on Adam LaRoche’s fielder error on Yadier Molina’s groundball to make it 3-2.
Holliday's homer in the fifth had tied it at 2-2.
Brad Penny (2-0) had another strong showing with his seven-inning effort in which he gave up two runs on eight hits with five strikeouts.
Arizona starter Rodrigo Lopez took the no-decision in seven innings, allowing seven hits and two earned runs with four walks with seven strikeouts.
Mark Reynolds had a two-run double in the first for the Diamondbacks, who lost for the fifth straight time.
| St. Louis | Arizona | |
| Brad Penny | Player | Rodrigo Lopez |
| Win | W/L | No Decision |
| 7.0 | IP | 7.0 |
| 5 | Strikeouts | 3 |
| 8 | Hits | 7 |
| 2.57 | ERA | 2.57 |
| St. Louis | Arizona | |
| Matt Holliday | Player | Stephen Drew |
| 3 | Hits | 2 |
| 2 | RBI | 0 |
| 1 | HR | 0 |
| 7 | TB | 2 |
| .600 | Avg | .500 |