Thursday night's game was the pits. You can handle, almost laugh at, the team looking completely inept for an evening but it's much harder when it happens during a stretch in which the team is already playing bad ball. Enter Friday, where the Cardinals attempted to regain their dignity. Starters were Jack Flaherty and Junior…
Mike Trout is so good that it is making my head hurt
In the first round of the 2009 MLB Draft, the St. Louis Cardinals selected Texas high school pitcher Shelby Miller with the 19th overall pick. By most standards, Miller was a very good pick--he's already the seventh-best #19 pick in history (if this sounds like a familiar topic, it is) and he has a very…
6/21/18 Recap: Cardinals Fall Apart in Horrific Blowout to Brewers.
The Cardinals begin a four game series against the Brewers in Milwaukee to continue the road trip. Carlos Martinez (3-3) will head out to the mound to try and get his season back on track after several not-so-great outings in his post-lat strain career. Lefty Brent Suter (7-4) pitches for the Brewers. He's coming off…
The Cardinals are going to play the Brewers for four games–a series preview
If the St. Louis Cardinals do not win the National League Central this year, I hope the Milwaukee Brewers do. Perhaps this is not a particularly shocking assessment, as the chief contender outside of these two teams is the primary rival of them, the Chicago Cubs. But even so, the Brewers are a perfectly likable…
6/20/18 Recap: Cardinal hitters not named Yadier Molina go dormant, Wacha injured in 4-3 loss
Yadier Molina hits two home runs, but can't prevent the Cardinals from losing their fourth series in the last five. Oh, and Michael Wacha strained his oblique. Truly a banner day for the Cardinals.
How Mike Matheny’s bullpen management in a win led to a loss
The primary metrics by which coaches and managers in professional sports are measured are wins and losses. Wins and losses exist for players, particularly for baseball starting pitchers, but there are more descriptive statistics which are in the mainstream (earned-run average, to use the most famous example). For coaches, one's record is what we have,…
The sky stops falling, Cardinals pull out impressive win in Philly- a 6/19 recap
After Monday night's brutal loss, the Cardinals and Phillies were back in action from Citizen's Bank Park for the second game of a two game series. Luke Weaver took on Vince Valesquez. Here was the rest of the line up: https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1009186597840084992 https://twitter.com/Phillies/status/1009153491292573696 Here's how the game went down: Phillies get two on, no out earlier…
Harrison Bader has changed the outfield conversation
Everyone knows how it goes: An everyday outfielder gets hurt or otherwise fails to perform. The Cardinals then plug someone into that gap, and everyone realizes that the backup is good. Then the fans beat their fists on the table, demanding that this off-the-bench outfielder produced by Cardinals Devil Magic should be out there every…
Cardinals strike out a billion times, Phillies win in the stupidest possible fashion
Hey guys, John again. Last night's game was fun so hopefully I can carry the extremely short hot streak into a new series, this time against the Philadelphia Phillies. Here were the lineups. https://twitter.com/Cardinals/status/1008809098903683073 https://twitter.com/Phillies/status/1008803343274213376 Here's the bullet points of what happened. Hey, did you know Tim McCarver used to be on the Phillies? Of…
The Good, the Ugly, and the Maybe Good Again: The Cardinals are playing the Phillies this week
The Cardinals travel to Philadelphia to take on the Phillies for their next three-game set. After going 2-4 in a pair of disappointing series against the lowly Padres and some other ball team, the Cardinals find themselves 4 games behind the division leader Brewers and half a game back of the Cubs. Probable matchups probably…
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