Cards hold on, beat Phils in 10

ST. LOUIS -- Yadier Molina never saw what hit him, leaving the field on a body board and wearing a neck brace. One inning later, it was the Philadelphia Phillies who were stunned.

Rick Ankiel scored from second on the Phillies' second error at first base in the 10th inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 7-6 victory on Sunday, a game interrupted when Molina was run over on a tag play in the ninth.

Molina was to be held overnight at a hospital for evaluation of neck and back pain, but appeared to be suffering mostly from a case of whiplash.

"The initial stuff was OK," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said. "At least right now. We're keeping our fingers crossed and hoping for the best."

Ankiel reached with two outs on second baseman Chase Utley's wild throw to reliever Tom Gordon, who was covering first. After Troy Glaus singled, Gordon (5-4) again had to cover the bag on Chris Duncan's grounder between first and second, and Gordon missed the ball as he ran across the base.

"I just didn't see the ball," Gordon said. "I couldn't find it, I couldn't locate it. I was hoping it would hit me. I have no excuse."

Gordon disagreed with Phillies manager Charlie Manuel's assertion that the reliever had trouble finding the base.

"That had nothing to do with anything," Gordon said. "I got over there soon so if anybody is going to question that, I'm telling you upfront what I saw."

Skip Schumaker homered and doubled to wrap up a seven-hit series and Glaus added a two-run shot for his sixth homer of the month. Anthony Reyes (2-1) worked a perfect 10th for St. Louis.

Ankiel doubled off the left-field wall, tripled off the right-field wall and had an RBI for the Cardinals, who took the three-game series after getting routed 20-2 on Friday night. St. Louis is 9-0-1 in its last 10 series and has won eight of 10 series when dropping the opener.

The Cardinals are 3-2 since Pujols went on the DL.

"We caught a break," La Russa said. "We've had it happen where the baseball gods kicked us, but today they kicked the Phillies."

Ryan Howard had two hits and four RBIs for the NL East-leading Phillies, and was 6-for-13 with nine RBIs against his hometown team. Philadelphia stranded 15 runners, leaving the bases loaded four times.

Bruntlett missed a chance to score the go-ahead run from second on Shane Victorino's clean single to right on the previous at-bat, first retreating to second.

St. Louis relievers walked four straight batters, including Howard and Pat Burrell with the bases loaded, to allow the Phillies to tie it at 6 in the eighth.

Burrell had been 0-for-6 with four strikeouts against Russ Springer before driving in the tying run on a five-pitch walk with most of the pitches well off the plate.

Cardinals pitchers walked eight batters, while Phillies pitchers didn't walk any.

Phillies starter Brett Myers allowed six runs on eight hits in six innings and has been charged with 11 runs in 11 1-3 innings in his last two appearances.

Noteworthy

• Utley was 0-for-3 on Saturday, ending a 21-game hitting streak against the Cardinals, and went 2-for-4 on Sunday.
• Howard stole his second career base when reliever Chris Perez forgot about him in the sixth.
• Cardinals pitchers also walked eight on Friday's 20-2 loss.
• Schumaker is batting .410 (16-for-39) in his last nine starts to raise his average to .310.