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Cardinals lose Gant, squander lead trying to patch together relief, trail Reds, 7-5

The go ahead run scored on a bases-loaded walk, and the insurance run trotted home on a wild pitch, and still the costliest moment in the seventh inning for the Cardinals had nothing to do with losing a lead.

It had to do with losing a pitcher at a precarious time for the bullpen.

The Cardinals misplaced their one-run lead in the top of the seventh and go into the bottom of the inning trailing, 7-5, to Cincinnati at Busch Stadium. Andrew Miller gave the Reds a bases-loaded walk and another run on a wild pitch in an inning he was not supposed to handle.