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ST. Aldon Smith Black Jersey . LOUIS -- If this was Joe Kellys last turn, hes leaving with his head held high. The rookie right-hander pitched into the seventh inning of what could be his final start before Jaime Garcia comes off the disabled list, and the St. Louis Cardinals got home runs from Matt Holliday and Jon Jay in an 8-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. "I love him in the rotation," second baseman Skip Schumaker said after getting two hits and turning a dazzling double play to his left on a short hop to rob Miguel Montero in the second. "I dont obviously manage but hes making it really difficult on everyone to move him out. "We think the world of him." Montero hit a two-run homer for the Diamondbacks, who have lost four of six to drop to .500. They are 0-4 against the Cardinals this season. Ian Kennedy (10-10) made throwing errors on consecutive sacrifice bunt attempts to help the Cardinals score two unearned runs in the seventh for a three-run cushion, and gave up both homers for a four-game total of eight long balls. "I feel like the two of them were good pitches, but obviously not good enough," Kennedy said. "Its frustrating when you give up those solo home runs. "Every once in a while, they add up." Kelly (3-5) gave up two runs in 6 1-3 innings and matched his career best with six strikeouts, lowering his ERA to 3.41 -- trailing only Kyle Lohses 2.72 in the rotation. Garcia had eight strikeouts and three walks, throwing 93 pitches in five innings for Triple-A Memphis in his fourth rehab start Tuesday night. Manager Mike Matheny swatted away a question about whether Garcia was ready to step in, saying "too early for that right now." Before the game he said he advised Kelly to ignore speculation. "Everyone else thinks about it a lot more than I do," Kelly said. "It hasnt really crossed my mind. Until someone tells me otherwise, Ill just keep the same routine, same plan." Hollidays two-run homer in the fourth reached the third deck in left just inside the foul pole to put St. Louis ahead. His 23rd homer topped last years total. Jay hit his fourth of the year to open the sixth for a 3-0 lead. Kelly had cruised through the middle innings Justin Upton singled to start the seventh. Montero homered to straightaway centre on the next pitch, his 14th of the season. In minutes, Kennedy doubled his season total of two errors through his first 23 starts and helped the Cardinals pull away. He was off-balance fielding Rafael Furcals sacrifice bunt and double-pumped an underhand throw that first baseman Paul Goldschmidt dropped after being screened to put two men on with none out in the seventh. Kennedy then he floated a throw high over third base on what would have been an easy forceout on pinch hitter Shane Robinsons sacrifice attempt to allow a run. "We just self-disintegrated at the end of the game," manager Kirk Gibson said. "We made two errors on two trivial bunt plays." Kennedy entered the season with three career errors in 100 starts. Hes 1-3 with a 8.59 ERA against the Cardinals in four career outings. Allen Craig added a run-scoring groundout with the bases loaded off Brad Ziegler to make it 5-2 in the seventh. Pinch hitter Matt Carpenter was credited with a two-run double on a low liner that centre fielder Gerardo Parra trapped and then tried to sell as a catch as the Diamondbacks began trotting off the field. Second base umpire Gary Darling, closest to the play, reversed third base umpire Paul Emmels call as the Cardinals kept running. "I had a great view of it. I knew it was down," Carpenter said. "You would have thought he for-sure caught it, the way he was acting." Kelly survived a pair of fielding miscues by Holliday and Jay in the first and third to keep it scoreless. Holliday froze in his tracks in left and retreated too late on Jason Kubels double that bounced off the warning track with two outs in the first, but Kelly struck out Goldschmidt. Jay broke in from centre on Stephen Drews one-out triple in the third and with a late dive got just the tip of his glove on the ball, but Kubel grounded into a double play. Jay made a nice juggling catch at the wall to rob Drew for the last out in the fifth. The ball squirted out of Jays glove as he hit the ball but he re-gloved it while landing. NOTES: Carpenter is 7 for 24 as a pinch hitter with 10 RBIs, most by a Cardinals rookie since Joe Frazier had 15 in 1954. ... The Cardinals have won six in a row in the series dating to last season. ... Kennedy has surrendered 23 homers, among the league leaders. ... Montero leads all catchers with 70 RBIs. ... Adam Wainwright (10-10) is 4-0 with a 1.53 ERA in his last four home starts entering Wednesday nights matchup against Joe Saunders (6-8, 3.53). 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Americans Alexandra Aldridge and Daniel Eaton won the gold medal with 138.43 points, while Anna Yanovskaya and Sergey Mozgov of Russia were second at 128.81. NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Petra Kvitova beat Maria Kirilenko 7-6 (9), 7-5 on Saturday to win the New Haven Open, the Czech stars second WTA tournament title in three weeks. The second-seeded Kvitova trailed 5-2 in the second set before reeling off five consecutive games for the victory that avenged a loss to the Russian in the Olympic quarterfinals. The fifth-ranked player in the world has won 12 of her last 13 hardcourt matches this season heading into the U.S. Open. She clinched the U.S. Open series championship this week after winning her first title of the year in Montreal and reaching the semifinals in Cincinnati. "Its unbelievable," she said. "I mean, play three tournaments in a row and win two. Its great for me. I hope it will continue in the US Open." The series championship, based on points earned in five U.S. hard-court tournaments this summer, makes Kvitova eligible for a bonus of up to $1 million depending on her finish in the U.S. Open. Kvitova didnt lose a set the entire week, but had to battle in both on Saturday. The first set, which lasted an hour and eight minutes, had six service breaks, and went to the tiebreaker when Kvitova failed to serve out the match after breaking Kirilenko to go up 6-5. Kvitova got a mini-break on the first point and was up 5-2, but again had a hard time putting Kirilenko away. The Russian fought off two set points at 6-4, and was serving for the set at 8-7. But Kvitova won that mini-break and went on to win the tiebreaker 11-9 when Kirilenko put a return into the net. "It was a difficult first set," Kirilenko said. "We were both getting tiredd. NaVorro Bowman Womens Jersey. I felt it. I think she felt it as well. We were a little bit run down." Kirilenko seemed to find some energy early in the second set with her boyfriend, NHL star Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals cheering from the players box. She went up two service breaks and was serving at 5-2 to tie the match. But there was no quit in Kvitova. She fought off a set point to win that game, held serve twice and broke Kirilenko at love twice, cupping her hand to her mouth as Kirilenkos final serve went long. "I just played, not thinking about the shots, about the tactics, just put the ball into the court," she said. "Then it was 7-5. Surprise." Kirilenko, the seventh seed, was the fresher of the two coming into the match. She had played just two full matches and five sets to get to the final. Her second round opponent withdrew with a stomach ailment, and four-time defending champion Caroline Wozniacki retired from their semifinal match with a knee injury after one set. Kvitova easily beat NCAA champion Nicole Gibbs (6-2, 6-4), Lucie Safarova (6-3, 6-3) and Italys Sara Errani (6-1, 6-3) on her run to the final. The seventh-seeded Kirilenko was coming off an Olympics in which she won a bronze medal in doubles and advanced to the semifinals in the singles after beating Kvitova 7-6 (3), 6-3. "Even though I lost today, I still feel positive," she said. "I played really well this week. I played good match today. Unfortunately, I was unlucky. But I have couple days to recover because I know that Im playing Tuesday. So two days, its good for me to have rest." ' ' '