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8:15 pm EDT Wed May 12, 2010

With their lead atop the NL Central shrinking, the St. Louis Cardinals may be especially happy to see Houston Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez. The Cardinals have accounted for 10 of the left-hander’s 56 career losses, and they’ll try to beat him for the second time in 2010 as the teams continue their series in St. Louis on Wednesday night. Cincinnati has won four in a row to pull within two games of the first-place Cardinals, who’ve dropped five of seven. They’ve been held to three or fewer runs in each of the losses in that stretch, getting shut out twice. St. Louis had a 2-0 lead in Tuesday night’s series opener against the NL-worst Astros before allowing four unearned runs in the seventh inning of a 6-3 defeat. Manager Tony La Russa partially blamed the Cardinals’ offense, which hit into two double plays and stranded eight runners.

Although reigning NL MVP Albert Pujols went 2 for 4, he was held without an RBI for the fourth straight game and has one in his last eight. Cleanup hitter Matt Holliday drove in a run but has four RBIs in his last 18 games. Rodriguez probably doesn’t feel comfortable after losing his last three starts against St. Louis, slipping to 3-10 with a 4.17 ERA in 16 meetings. Rodriguez doesn’t have more than six losses against any other opponent. He gave up four runs in 4 1-3 innings of a 5-0 loss at St. Louis on April 12. Pujols had been 5 for 31 without a homer against Rodriguez coming into that game, but the slugger went 2 for 2 with a three-run homer and a walk. Rodriguez made several mistakes against Arizona on Thursday, allowing nine hits and five runs in 3 2-3 innings of a 6-3 loss.