Cardinals 6, Dodgers 4

Tommy falls to 0-4 after Greg Jones uncorks a wild pitch with two outs in the ninth that allowed TWO runs to score. Russell Martin hit a three-run HR for the Dodgers. Delwyn Young went 2 for 4 to raise his avg. to .162 and didn’t strike out once. Esteban Loaiza became the first Dodgers to pitcher this spring to go five innings and could have gone more, he said. Afterward, Rick Honeycutt hinted that the fifth starter’s job is Loaiza’s to lose, which means that if he keeps pitching like this, it won’t matter whether Chan Ho Park ever gives up a run this spring. Dodgers fall to 6-10-1 for the spring. … Tony La Russa on managing against Lasorda, whose Dodgers upset La Russa’s heavily favored Oakland A’s in 1988, when a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked if managing against Lasorda would be like old times: “I hope not. He has the ring. He has OUR ring. If they get a guy on third base, we’ll be watching … for the squeeze. I know he’ll do it. He’ll be competing. You can’t ever take that away from him.”