Cardinals vs. Brewers: Holliday Homer Has Cards Up 1-0

Matt Holliday's got a hand injury. He says it's fine and Tony La Russa's been writing Holliday's name on the lineup card every day. But the injury's still there.

The streak is dead, but just barely. In the bottom of the second, Holliday reached out and poked a Randy Wolf change-up high and deep down the right-field line and -- to the surprise of Holliday and everyone else, and thanks to the wind and perhaps his will -- the ball fell into the first row of seats, a dozen feet fair. You know, like this:

Yadier Molina, next up, went to the same spot but on a bounce, and jogged to second base on the automatic double.

Then Ryan Theriot sent a soft grounder between first and second base. Rickie Weeks got there in plenty of time, but the ball glanced off his glove for an error, Molina moving to third.

Batting eighth, Jon Jay hit a grounder straight to Prince Fielder, who tagged Jay while Molina held at third. And Wolf escaped the inning by striking out Kyle Lohse. So the error didn't hurt, but the wind-aided pop fly did.

After two full innings it's Cardinals 1, Brewers 0.