Sports – Friday, August 19th, 2022

The Sullivan Football Jamboree tonight starting at 7:00 and will feature St. James, Salem, Herculaneum, Sullivan and the Jefferson R-7 School in Festus. Each team will get 12 plays on offense and 12 plays on defense.

Albert Pujols slugged the 16th grand slam of his career and finished with five RBI in the game as the St. Louis Cardinals bombed the Colorado Rockies Thursday afternoon, 13-0. Lars Nootbaar hit a two-run homer for St. Louis and Paul Goldschmidt had three hits and two RBI in the game. The Cards on the day had 15 hits while Adam Wainwright pitched seven scoreless innings along only three hits to get the win. The Cardinals will be in Arizona tonight to face the Diamondbacks to start a three-game series starting at 7:45.

The Tampa Bay Rays broke open a 1-0 game by scoring five runs in the 7th inning off Brad Keller to cruise to a 7-1 win over Kansas City Thursday night. The Royals only run came on a home run by rookie Michael Massey. The Royals and Tampa Bay will finish out their series weekend.