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CHICAGO -- The St. Louis Cardinals were frustrated Friday, by Jake Arrieta and by umpires.Arrieta struck out 10 in seven innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the sloppy Cardinals 5-0 as St. Louis fell a game behind the Mets and Giants for the two NL wild-card berths.Mike Leake (9-11) gave up five runs, seven hits and three walks in 3 1/3 innings.I couldnt locate early, he said. I was slightly erratic. I just started out on the wrong foot.After Jhonny Peralta and Kolten Wong led off the third inning with singles, Leake was struck by a pitch in a bunt situation, only to have plate umpire CB Buckner rule a swinging strike. After manager Mike Matheny debated the call with Buckner and first-base umpire Jim Reynolds briefly, the pitcher bunted into a double play and Matt Carpenter struck out.I was surprised at the call, Leake said. It could have turned into a turning point if we would have capitalized.Video review is not allowed on that type of play.I would like to see them change anything thats at a pivotal point in the game and can be reviewed, Matheny said.Arrieta (18-7) allowed five hits and walked one, Anthony Rizzo had three hits and Ben Zobrist drove in two runs.I dont give up many hits, so if I can keep guys off base via the walk, Im going to be in a pretty good spot, Arrieta said.The Cubs scored four runs in the first inning off Leake en route to their 98th victory, the most since they last played in the World Series in 1945. They also tied a team record with their 56th home win.Pedro Strop came off the disabled list to work the eighth, and Travis Wood and Carl Edwards Jr. finished the five-hitter.Rizzo, Zobrist and Chris Coghlan drove in runs in the first off Leake, winless in four starts since recovering from shingles.Those are the kind of innings that have hurt him this year, Matheny said. When hes able to stay away from the big inning, you see him go deep in the game.Leake allowed another run on one of two wild pitches. Cardinals gaffes included Wong face-planting into the turf chasing Rizzos first-inning double and Matt Adams getting picked off first in the fourth.TRAINERS ROOMCardinals: LF Matt Holliday (broken right thumb) took batting practice off RHP Mike Mayers before the game. He blistered a couple balls, Matheny said. It was exciting to see. Holliday will likely have another BP session before hes activated. ... SS Aledmys Diaz (arm fatigue) was out of the lineup.GROOMSMAN STRIKES OUTArrieta and Carpenter were college teammates at TCU. Arrieta was Carpenters wedding groomsman. Yet Carpenter cant solve his friend. He went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts, leaving him 0 for 24 in the regular season against Arrieta.CARDINALS ROTATIONLHP Jaime Garcia will take the Cardinals rotation spot of struggling RHP Luke Weaver on Monday vs. Cincinnati.UP NEXTRHP Jason Hammel (15-9, 3.56 ERA), contending for the final Cubs postseason rotation spot, faces rookie RHP Alex Reyes (3-1, 1.08) on Saturday. Cheap Air Max From China . -- The plastic that was taped across the lockers in Oaklands clubhouse came down and the champagne that was on ice went back into the cooler. Air Max Outlet . The Olympic champion curler and TSN curling analyst immediately went online to look at the Halls long list of honoured members. Thats when the enormity of the honour sunk in. https://www.airmaxchina.us/ . Badenhop was 2-3 with a 3.47 ERA in 63 relief appearances for Milwaukee this season. He is 18-20 in his career with three saves and a 3. Fake Air Max . McPhee said that Ovechkins father Mikhail is in stable condition after having the surgery this week and is no longer in intensive care. "Weve told him to stay as long as necessary with your dad," he said. Ovechkin and his Russian national team were eliminated from the mens hockey tournament in Sochi on Wednesday with a 3-1 quarter-final loss to Finland. Wholesale Air Max . -- Charline Labonte couldnt have asked for a better homecoming. Wahab Riazs tour of England was in danger of ending on a forgettable note. When England racked up their world record 444 at Trent Bridge he finished with 0 for 110, the second-worst figures in ODI history, and was banished to the sidelines for the final two games of the series.But, brought back for the T20 at Old Trafford, he responded with a career-best performance of 3 for 18, including the key wicket of Jos Buttler, and did not concede a boundary in his four overs. Used exclusively in the second half of the innings - a piece of early planning from new captain Sarfraz Ahmed - England could not handle his extreme pace or drastic slower balls.I had a plan within myself that if I have to bowl fast it has to be very fast and if I have to bowl slow it has to be very slow and you have to have a lot of varieties in this T20 game, Wahab said. When you are in rhythm, things go your way.When he was being hammered around Nottingham by Alex Hales, Buttler and Eoin Morgan, Wahab did not help his cause by overstepping. The TV umpire, using the trial system of calling no-balls, was at his busiest when he had the ball. Most costly was the reprieve of Hales on 72 as he went on to score his England-record 171.Wahab said missing the last two ODIs had giiven him time to work on the problem and thanked the effort of bowling coach Azhar Mahmood.dddddddddddd wasnt in the habit of bowling no-balls before this tour, I dont know what happened to me. The credit goes to the bowling coach, he really helped me, he was very strict with me about the no-balls. Because I was resting the last two games, he really worked hard with me and the credit goes to him.Eoin Morgan acknowledged Pakistans attack had enjoyed a good day, but believed conditions had changed significantly when his bowlers tried to defend 136: by the end of the Powerplay, Pakistan were 73 for 0. He said the evening dew made strokeplay easier and, with hindsight, he would have bowled first.Pakistan bowled well, and adapted to the circumstances - but given the pitch we bowled on, we probably would have needed 180-185. The ball seemed to slide on quite nicely.Im not one for excuses, but certainly the shots the Pakistan batsmen played out there are shots you can only play on a very, very good wicket.We are not a timid batting team - we play quite aggressively. But none of us seemed to catch fire or get going. ' ' '