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ST. Bob Cousy Jersey . LOUIS -- A fireworks display from the nearby riverfront began before closer Edward Mujica took the mound. After the final out, the St. Louis Cardinals had their own little display. "Thats crazy," Mujica said after finishing off the Miami Marlins for a 4-1 victory Friday night. "I saw the people before the inning taking pictures and everything. Id never seen that before." The Cardinals saw what theyve seen all year from Mujica, the former setup man who capitalized on his chance with a perfect 21-for-21 start before finally blowing one on Thursday night. "Everybody has bad days sometimes," Mujica said. "You try to get here and turn the page. I knew what I did, I made a couple mistakes, and I went right after them." Jake Westbrook worked seven strong innings and Allen Craig had two RBIs for a lineup that spoiled Jacob Turners homecoming early on. "I was able to get ahead quite a bit tonight, but I wasnt able to put a lot of guys away," Turner said. "And I think thats what hurt me." Matt Holliday doubled twice with an RBI and Mujica rebounded for the Cardinals, who had lost eight of 11 and plummeted from the majors best record to second place in the NL Central entering a five-game homestand. The Marlins totalled three hits and lost for just the third time in 11 games. They flubbed a scoring chance in the fifth with an unusual double play off a sacrifice bunt attempt from Turner. "I saw guys out, everybody was out," manager Mike Redmond said. "I thought it was a triple play." The hard-throwing Turner (2-1), a former first-round pick from suburban St. Charles, Mo., and confidant of Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, surrendered four runs on seven hits in six innings. The 22-year-old entered with a 1.76 ERA his first six starts of the year and threw his first career complete game his last time out. Mathenys son Tate caught Turner for a handful of games at Westminster Christian Academy before Turner was the Tigers first-round pick in 2009. Matheny minimized his influence before the game, and afterward said knowledge of the back story wasnt a factor. "These guys, they know what theyre doing," Matheny said. "I could have watched every start he ever threw but its different once you get in the box. "They had a good game plan. They knew what they wanted to do." Westbrook (5-3) was hurt only by Logan Morrisons 440-foot homer to straightaway centre leading off the second that ended the right-handers streak of 23 innings without allowing an earned run at home to start the season. The sinkerballer got all three outs on ground balls five times and benefited from two double plays, one of them a bit unusual, and is 3-1 in his last four starts. "Controlling counts, you have to make them swing at it down there," Westbrook said. "To do that youve got to get ahead. I was able to do that tonight." Trevor Rosenthal struck out the side in the eighth before Mujica struck out two in a perfect ninth, less than 24 hours after giving up a game-tying two-run homer to the Angels Josh Hamilton in a 6-5 loss Thursday night. With runners on first and second and none out in the fifth, Turner was called out by home plate umpire Fieldin Culbreth after his sacrifice bunt attempt bounced off the plate and right to catcher Yadier Molina for a quick tagout. Molina threw to third and Adeiny Hechavarria was ruled out without a tag, then was in the dugout before the Marlins could react. Culbreth, speaking to a pool reporter from the Associated Press, called it an "unfortunate circumstance of three or four things taking place at once." He said he ruled on a fair ball and the out "basically simultaneously," then was distracted by complaints from Marlins third base coach Joe Espada. "In the middle of making both those calls, I think the runners, fielders and possibly even my colleagues couldnt see my actions as well," Culbreth said. "And thats what led to the confusion." Holliday and Craig doubled with two outs in the first to nearly identical drives to right-centre to put the Cardinals in front. They got RBI doubles from Holliday and Matt Adams plus a sacrifice fly from Craig in the third to make it 4-1. Craig is near the top of the National League with 68 RBIs and entered with a league-leading .469 average with runners in scoring position. A standing room crowd of 46,177 attracted by a Mike Shannon bobblehead giveaway gave the longtime Cardinals announcer a lengthy ovation before the seventh. Shannon left the stadium with four bobbleheads in a shopping bag. Notes: Joe Kelly (0-3, 3.86) makes a long-delayed first appearance as the Cardinals fifth starter since getting elevated to the rotation on June 22 on Saturday. 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Matsuyama has posted top-five finishes in his past three starts The world No 10 opened his back-nine with a hat-trick of gains to move top of the leaderboard, before extending his advantage to three strokes by picking up shots at the par-five 14th and 18th.Im really happy with how it ended up today, Matsuyama said. During the warm-up this morning, it was starting to get windy and I thought maybe just a couple under par would be a good score. I have been playing well but today I hit some good second shots and made some putts and thats what made the round score well for me.Defending champion Russell Knox, looking to become the only player other than Tiger Woods to successfully defend a WGC title, posted a four-under 68 to join Amerrican Bill Haas in joint-second. Celtics Jerseys Outlet. Knox is 10 under after the opening two rounds Birdies over his final three holes lifted Francesco Molinari to within five strokes of the lead alongside Richard Bland and Daniel Berger, with McIlroy posting a six-under 66 to join the group a further shot back.McIlroy reached the turn in 33 and added three gains in a four-hole stretch along the back nine, before bouncing back from finding the hazard and dropping a shot at the 16th to birdie the last. McIlroy is looking to close the gap at the top of the Race to Dubai standings this week The world No 3 is joined on seven under by Paul Casey, Ross Fisher and home favourite Xinjun Zhang, with Rickie Fowler seven off the pace after bogey three of his opening five holes.Masters champion Danny Willett struggled to a six-over 78 and US Open winner Dustin Johnson posted a second successive 74, as Adam Scott fired a back-nine 42 on his way to a second-round 80. 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