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• BOSTON, Massachusetts - Brandon Morrow, who was scratched from Fridays start at Fenway Park due to a back strain, is feeling better but not well enough to start Sundays series finale with the Red Sox. He expects to be ready to pitch Wednesdays home game against the defending world champion San Francisco Giants. "Yeah, the way that its improved the last 24 hours, 48 hours, I think I should (be ready,") said Morrow. "I think Im going to try to get off the mound (Sunday) and then get all my throwing in in between. That was another thing why pushing back to Wednesday makes sense. I really havent even moved since Tuesday. Its just been coming in for treatment, sit down, watch the game and then go back and lie down. I havent played catch, I havent run, I havent really done anything." Right-hander Chad Jenkins has been recalled from Double-A New Hampshire. To make room on the active roster, outfielder Rajai Davis has been placed on the 15-day disabled with a strained left oblique. Morrow, 28, remained in the Tampa area when his teammates travelled north to Boston. He underwent an MRI, which revealed no extensive damage, and hoped to pitch on Sunday. Two sessions of catch with pitching coach Pete Walker on Saturday morning changed the plan. "I just wanted to go back out and kind of just get a little bit looser," said Morrow. "The first time that we went out and played catch, I decided that I probably wasnt going to be able to go tomorrow. And then the second time was – without trying to go through pitching mechanics – just to play catch and just kind of feel a natural arm swing and just kind of loosen stuff up." Morrows back problem developed on Tuesday while he was throwing his regularly-scheduled side session. At first, it was a "twinge," as Morrow put it. One pitch later, the pain worsened, and Morrow shut it down. "It felt like I had a broomstick down my back when I was throwing," said Morrow, describing his sudden lack of range of movement. "I rely a little bit more on rotation than a lot of guys in my mechanics. It just wasnt working right." The selection of Jenkins is surprising if only because hes only made one minor league start, at Double-A, so far this season. He suffered a strained lat muscle in spring training, and made three starts in extended spring training before heading to New Hampshire. Jenkins, who went 1-3 with a 4.50 ERA in 13 appearances for the Blue Jays last season, is confident he can take the ball and be effective. "Rick Langford is our rehab guy and every time I see him, he always seems to get me right," said Jenkins, who expects to have an 80-90 pitch limit. "I threw really well in extended and had a really good start the other night, so I feel like Im prepared." Sunday will mark Jenkins fourth career major league start. The Blue Jays were 1-2 in games Jenkins started last season. <a href="http://www.nfljerseyswholesalecc.com/">nfl jerseys china</a>. 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Jake Westbrook delivered a three-run double and allowed eight hits and three runs over 5 1/3 innings. Westbrook (6-3) won his fourth consecutive decision. Ryan Theriot was hitless in his first four at-bats, but then doubled in a run in the final inning to stretch his career-best hitting streak to 20 games. Pujols, who belted back-to-back walk-off homers Saturday and Sunday vs. the Cubs, smashed a pitch from Enerio Del Rosario just below the railroad tracks beyond the wall in left in the eighth inning. It was his fifth homer in the last four games. Daniel Descalso scored twice for the Cardinals, who have won four in a row. Brett Myers (2-5) gave up six hits and five runs over six innings for Houston, which has lost four straight. Carlos Lee hit a two-run homer in defeat. Berkman, who went 8-for-14 with a pair of homers and seven RBI in the Cardinals April 26-28 series at Houston, gave the visitors a quick advantage. Colby Rasmus singled with one out, and after Pujols popped out, Berkman turned on an 0-1 pitch and homered to center field. That was huge to get us off the zero there. Everything that happened, we needed every bit of it, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. The score is very misleading. Lee homered in the bottom of the frame, but the Astros wasted a bases-loaded opportunity in the third. St. Louis expanded its lead the next inning. With the bases full and two outs, Westbrook doubled to center to provide a 5-2 lead. Theriot botched a potential double-play grounder in the sixth, but the Astros were able to only push one run acrosss in the inning despite loading the bases.dddddddddddd. Reliever Jason Motte hit pinch-hitter Matt Downs on his right hand, forcing in Jeff Keppinger with one out. Michael Bourn struck out swinging on a foul tip and Clint Barmes grounded into a force play to keep the margin at 5-3. Another bases-loaded chance, this one with no outs, yielded nothing for Houston in the eighth. After three walks, Bourn fanned, Barmes flied out and Hunter Pence struck out swinging to end the inning. If you get those opportunities you have to seize the moment, Bourn said. Theriots double to right plated Descalso in the ninth before Chris Johnson had a ground-rule RBI double to close the scoring. Fernando Salas recorded the final six outs to gain his 11th save. GAME NOTES:Pence went 2-for-4 to extend his career-best hitting streak to 18 games...Berkman was back in the lineup after missing Sundays game due to a sprained right wrist...Cardinals right fielder Allen Craig was assisted off the field in the bottom of the first inning with a right knee contusion. Craig was chasing a foul ball off the bat of Barmes. The ball was slicing toward the stands when a fan reached over the railing in an attempt to catch the ball. Craig pulled up, but it was too late as his knee hit the wall...The last Cardinal to own a longer streak than Theriots was Pujols, who enjoyed a 30- game string in 2003...The Astros went 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position and left 13 men on base...La Russa needs three games managed in regular season play to reach the 5,000 career plateau, joining Connie Mack (7,755) as the only managers/coaches in American professional sports history to have reached that milestone...The Astros have lost seven of the last eight games Myers has started. ' ' '

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