NATIONAL LEAGUE Managers' quarrel highlight of game

Otherwise, it was just another disappointing Pirates' home loss.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Lloyd McClendon took exception to Tony La Russa yelling at one of his pitchers.
"I'm not going to let anybody holler at my players," McClendon said. "I don't apologize for anything I do between the lines."
Both managers were ejected with two outs in the top of the ninth inning in St. Louis' 4-2 victory over Pittsburgh after Pirates reliever Mike Gonzalez sent Tony Womack to the dirt with a high, inside pitch.
Before Gonzalez's next pitch, La Russa yelled at him. That prompted McClendon to storm out of his team's dugout and head toward the Cardinals dugout to confront La Russa.
Plate umpire Brian Gorman and first-base umpire Dale Scott tried to restrain McClendon, who forged ahead.
Met in the middle
La Russa came onto the field, and the umpires stood between the managers as they exchanged heated words along the first-base line near the Cardinals dugout.
"[McClendon's] right, you shouldn't yell at other teams players," La Russa said. "I mean, I don't like to do it, but when it gets to be excessive -- that ball up in the head area -- it's better to yell than for us to come back and throw at somebody's head."
The benches and bullpens emptied, and there was physical contact but no players were ejected.
La Russa criticized the Pirates' Ryan Vogelsong two nights earlier after Vogelsong hit Scott Rolen in the head with a pitch. Rolen later said he didn't believe the pitch was intentional.
Gonzalez, a rookie left-hander, said he wasn't trying to hit Womack in a two-run game
"They were trying to intimidate me [from the dugout]," Gonzalez said. "But I pitch inside, and I'm going to continue to pitch inside."
Don't go for the head
Womack wasn't pleased.
"I don't know what he was thinking, but I don't play around the head," Womack said.
Rolen, who missed Wednesday's game with a mild concussion, had three hits and two RBIs, raising his league-leading total to 55.
Woody Williams (3-5) pitched six scoreless innings as the Cardinals swept the four-game series, and improved to 19-9 on the road, best in the National League. Jason Isringhausen got four outs for his 11th save.
The Pirates lost their fifth in a row, and dropped to an NL-worst 9-18 at home.
Williams and Pirates starter Oliver Perez (3-3) waged a scoreless duel through five before the Cardinals scored twice in the sixth.
After Edgar Renteria's two-out double, Perez hit Albert Pujols with an 0-2 pitch. Rolen followed with a two-run double.
Woody Williams added a sacrifice fly in the seventh, scoring catcher Yadier Molina, who had an eventful major league debut.
Molina, younger brother of Anaheim Angels catchers Benjie and Jose Molina, tagged out Abraham Nunez on a collision in the second, had two hits and threw out Jack Wilson attempting to steal in the eighth.
In the first, Pirates catcher Jason Kendall extended his hitting streak to 20 games with a single.