"Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said Sunday that he had no regrets about his handling of starter Jaime Garcia the night before. Garcia stayed in for 106 pitches in 3 1/3 innings, and admitted afterward that he was tired out by the end of his outing.

The Cardinals had gotten four innings from their bullpen the day before, and they have more than a week before their next off-day. They were in a particularly tough position because one of their two primary long-relief candidates, Miguel Batista, had pitched two innings on Friday.

"What can you do? Dave [Duncan, pitching coach] and I, we're not sitting there thinking, 'What are we going to eat on the plane?'" La Russa said. "You're sitting there and you're watching. As we went through it, we pitched [Brian] Tallet, didn't we? We were one inning short of what we [hoped]." "