Cardinals reliever Brad Thompson nearly struck David Wright in the head during a possible retaliation attempt after Albert Pujols was hit an inning earlier. "When it starts coming up there, forget about retaliation, you can get somebody seriously injured," Wright said. "If you are going to go after somebody, make it in the back or do it the right way. You don't throw at someone's head." Gary Sheffield said a few words to Thompson when he stepped into the batter's box with the next at bat. "[Sheffield] just told him, don't hit him in the head," Jeff Francoeur said. "If you go look on the replay, that was really, really close to his head and you don't do that." Sheffield voiced his displeasure after the game as well. "That's uncalled for because you can do serious damage to somebody with a baseball," Sheffield said. "Throwing 90 mph, you can do a lot of damage. We didn't try to hit Pujols, and unfortunately, they probably felt we did, and that is why they retaliated."