World Series Play-by-Play, Game 2

BOSTON — Play-by-play of Game 2 of the 2013 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox:

Lineups_Cardinals: Matt Carpenter (2b), Carlos Beltran (rf), Matt Holliday (lf), Matt Adams (1b), Yadier Molina (c), Allen Craig (dh), David Freese (3b), Jon Jay (cf), Daniel Descalso (ss), Michael Wacha (rhp).

Red Sox: Jacoby Ellsbury (cf), Shane Victorino (rf), Dustin Pedroia (2b), David Ortiz (dh), Mike Napoli (1b), Jonny Gomes (lf), Jarrod Saltalamacchia (c), Stephen Drew (ss), Xander Bogaerts (3b), John Lackey (rhp).

Umpires_Home, Mark Wegner; First, Dana DeMuth; Second, Paul Emmel; Third, Bill Miller; Left, Jim Joyce; Right, John Hirschbeck.

Official Scorers — Mike Shalin (The Sports Exchange), Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Gaku Tashiro (Sankei Sports).

First Pitch — 8:08 p.m. EDT.

Cardinals First: Lackey pitching. Carpenter grounded out to shortstop Drew to first baseman Napoli. Beltran singled to left. Holliday struck out swinging. Adams flied out to left fielder Gomes.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 0, Red Sox 0.

Red Sox First: Wacha pitching. Ellsbury popped out to third baseman Freese. Victorino struck out swinging. Pedroia struck out swinging.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 0, Red Sox 0.

Cardinals Second: Molina singled to right. Craig flied out to right fielder Victorino. Freese struck out swinging. Jay grounded out to second baseman Pedroia to first baseman Napoli.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 0, Red Sox 0.

Red Sox Second: Ortiz grounded out to second baseman Carpenter to first baseman Adams. Napoli walked. Gomes flied out to center fielder Jay. Saltalamacchia flied out to center fielder Jay.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 0, Red Sox 0.

Cardinals Third: Descalso struck out swinging. Carpenter struck out swinging. Beltran grounded out to second baseman Pedroia to first baseman Napoli.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 0, Red Sox 0.

Red Sox Third: Drew struck out swinging. Bogaerts struck out swinging. Ellsbury singled to center. Victorino flied out to center fielder Jay.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 0, Red Sox 0.

Cardinals Fourth: Holliday tripled to center. Adams lined out to second baseman Pedroia. Molina grounded out to second baseman Pedroia to first baseman Napoli, Holliday scored. Craig walked. Freese grounded out to shortstop Drew to first baseman Napoli.

1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 1, Red Sox 0.

Red Sox Fourth: Pedroia doubled off the leftfield wall. Ortiz walked. Napoli grounded into a double play, shortstop Descalso to second baseman Carpenter to first baseman Adams, Pedroia to third and Ortiz forced at second. Gomes popped out to second baseman Carpenter.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 1, Red Sox 0

Cardinals Fifth: Jay flied out to center fielder Ellsbury. Descalso grounded out to shortstop Drew to first baseman Napoli. Carpenter grounded out to shortstop Drew to first baseman Napoli.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 1, Red Sox 0.

Red Sox Fifth: Saltalamacchia walked. Drew flied out to left fielder Holliday. Bogaerts struck out swinging. Ellsbury popped out to third baseman Freese.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 1, Red Sox 0.

Cardinals Sixth: Beltran flied out to center fielder Ellsbury. Holliday struck out swinging. Adams singled to left. Molina grounded out to second baseman Pedroia to first baseman Napoli.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 1, Red Sox 0.

Red Sox Sixth: Victorino grounded out to third baseman Freese to first baseman Adams. Pedroia walked. Ortiz, on a 3-2 pitch, homered to left, Pedroia scored. Napoli struck out looking. Gomes grounded out to third baseman Freese to first baseman Adams.

2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Red Sox 2, Cardinals 1.

Cardinals Seventh: Craig struck out looking. Freese walked. Jay singled to right, Freese to second. Craig Breslow pitching, replacing Lackey. Pete Kozma pinch ran for Freese. With Descalso batting, Kozma steals third and Jay steals second. Descalso walked. Carpenter hit sacrifice fly to left, Kozma scored. On fielding error by Saltamacchia Jay advanced to third and scored on throwing error by Breslow, Descalso to third. Beltran singled to right, Descalso scored. Junichi Tazawa pitching, replacing Breslow. Holliday grounded out to second baseman Pedroia to first baseman Napoli.

3 runs, 2 hits, 2 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 4, Red Sox 2.

Red Sox Seventh: Descalso moved to third base and Kozma at short. Carlos Martinez pitching, replacing Wacha. Saltalamacchia struck out swinging, catcher Molina to first baseman Adams. Drew grounded out off pitcher Martinez' glove to shortstop Kozma to first baseman Adams. Bogaerts grounded out to shortstop Kozma.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 4, Red Sox 2.

Cardinals Eighth: Brandon Workman pitching, replacing Tazawa. Adams flied out to left fielder Gomes. Molina flied out to center fielder Ellsbury. Craig singled to center. Kozma popped out to second baseman Pedroia.

0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 4, Red Sox 2.

Red Sox Eighth: Ellsbury reached on a fielding error by second baseman Carpenter. Victorino struck out looking. Pedroia struck out swinging. Ortiz singled to center, Ellsbury to second. Napoli popped out to shortstop Kozma.

0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 left on. Cardinals 4, Red Sox 2.

Cardinals Ninth: Koji Uehara pitching, replacing Workman. Jay flied out to left fielder Gomes. Descalso grounded out to shortstop Drew to first baseman Napoli. Carpenter lined out to third baseman Bogaerts.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 4, Red Sox 2.

Red Sox Ninth: Trevor Rosenthal pitching, replacing Martinez. Gomes struck out looking. Saltalamacchia struck out swinging. Daniel Naya pinch hitting for Drew, struck out swinging.

0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cardinals 4, Red Sox 2.