Ten things to know about a 10-game disaster:

1. The Cards went 2-8 and were outscored 53-38. Twenty of the Cards' runs came in two games, meaning they averaged 2.25 runs a game in the other eight.

2. Pittsburgh, Washington and Houston had a combined 148-223 record with a .399 winning percentage before the Cards came to town.

3. The Cardinals were 67-54 with a .591 winning percentage before the trip. Their winning percentage fell to .527.

4. The Cards left 71 runners stranded in the three series, an average of 7.1 runners a game.

5. The Cardinals suffered their second five-game losing streak of the season ... and their second since leaving Cincinnati on Aug. 11.

6. The Cards suffered consecutive shutouts to Houston on Monday and Tuesday, the second time they've been shut out consecutively this season.

7. Of the Cardinals' Big Three (Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright and Jaime Garcia), only the rookie recorded a win on the trip.

8. Wainwright, who had not taken back-to-back losses all year, lost consecutive decisions on the trip and is now on a three-game skid.

9. The Cardinals trailed the Reds by 3.5 games in the division before the trip. They now trail by eight.

10. The Cards trailed Philly by two games for the NL wild card entering the trip. They now trail Philly by five in the wild-card race and also trailed San Francisco by two games heading into the Giants' late Thursday game.