St. Louis Cardinals 2022
He goes back down. He was activated for the doubleheader. There are probably rules that stipulate he can'r stay. But what do I know.
If he's sent down he can start another game or two. If he's up he's in the bullpen.
If they wanted to keep him they wouldn't have activated Matz when Hicks went on the IL.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
I agree..........i hadn't heard about Hicks going on the IL and matz being activated until they announced it on the broadcast .........I thought Hudson coyld stay and the cardinals choose somebody else , but you may be right ....anyway , this Greene for the reds could break in a new catcher glove in a couple of innings........Throwing 102 mph regularly that 1st inning
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals beat the reds 1-0 in 11 innings........................................Knizner was 5 feet outside the baselines ..................lol.................I guess that's not reviewable..
Too bad
Soo sad
I'mm glad...............
Quintana was brilliant ...........8 innings of 2 hit shutout pitching..............
Another shutdown performance from the bullpen , including the newest addition of Matz.................
I'm still laughing about how obvious it was about Knizner and the running out of the baseline................
THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad
Soo sad
I'mm glad...............
Quintana was brilliant ...........8 innings of 2 hit shutout pitching..............
Another shutdown performance from the bullpen , including the newest addition of Matz.................
I'm still laughing about how obvious it was about Knizner and the running out of the baseline................
THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
You could read David Bell's lips and he started out saying c'mon , then transitioned to that's a BS call..........
Call it head's up running by Knizner .......I'm just glad it is NOT reviewable..............
we won so everything else is a moot point to me........been an exhausting day for me , but 2 wins reduces the magic number to , I think , 9....I believe the brewers won so the division lead is still 8 games ......................
Let's Go Cardinals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Call it head's up running by Knizner .......I'm just glad it is NOT reviewable..............
we won so everything else is a moot point to me........been an exhausting day for me , but 2 wins reduces the magic number to , I think , 9....I believe the brewers won so the division lead is still 8 games ......................
Let's Go Cardinals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO HE DOESN'T!!!!
I was thinking he was roughly 2 feet inside the line so I went back to review it. Maybe it's closer to 3 feet. Thing is he "established" his running lane about 1/3 of the way to the plate. He could get back to the foul line in a step. I think those are the reasons it's acceptable to the ump. If he shifted from foul to fair ten feet from home he would have been called out.
You can run in fair territory. He may have been a little too far in. They teach you to lead off and run in foul territory to avoid getting out by getting hit with a ball that was batted.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Yep , I was taught that way way back in the early sixty's playing Little league baseball.................I guess I've never seen a baserunner run that much in the GRASS in fair territory coming home from third base....Turned out great for us so i am done with it and take the win for a doubleheader sweep.........
IlliniFan85
- Colorado Springs, CO
Remember, you are supposed to have 3 feet to either side of the baseline (which is imaginary between 1st and 2nd, 2nd and third, but not sure about 3rd to home, and is an arc when rounding a base). So theoretically you have 6 feet. He was looking back at the ball originally, so how did that affect his running as well. I am not saying he changed his course of running to get in way of ball, I am just saying he obviously is allowed to move and did his looking behind him cause his path to change because he couldn't see home for a couple seconds.
He was trying to block the fielder's throwing lane, which is smart baserunning, and worked. It's also something that came up in a Goldschmidt profile on the Athletic back in June:
"Fast forward to that September, the second game of a double-header in Pittsburgh. The Pirates had the infield in with one out, Miller on second and Goldschmidt on third. The score was tied 2-2 in the sixth inning of a seven-inning game. Tyler O’Neill hit a chopper to Pirates third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes, who was then a rookie but already an excellent defender.
“Goldy doesn’t think twice. He runs inside the baseline because there’s no baseline from third to home — you can establish your own,” Miller recalls. “He’s big. He’s got those wide shoulders. He runs inside. Ke’Bryan Hayes looks up and goes, ‘Oh s—’ and sails it because he doesn’t have a lane to throw.”
Goldschmidt scored the go-ahead run. The Cardinals ended up winning, 7-2. Afterward, the clubhouse was buzzing.
“He comes in and other people are like, ‘F— yeah, that’s sick!’” Miller remembers. “And he’s like, ‘Yeah, that’s the play. That’s what you do.’”
Paul Goldschmidt: Man, machine, MVP? ‘This guy’s a robot’
Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado calls Goldschmidt “the smartest player I’ve ever seen.”
theathletic.com
Knizner obviously has learned some thing from Goldy.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals’ magic number drops to nine and there were some magic moments against Reds
Quintana pitches his best game as a Cardinal and team is 8-1 in his starts. Knizner's elbow gets in way of throw to provide winning run.
Rick Hummel
Magic numbers become more magic when they reach single digits. The Cardinals’ magic number dropped to nine Saturday with a day-night twin bill sweep of the Cincinnati Reds here, meaning any combination of Cardinals wins and Milwaukee Brewers defeats totaling nine will give the locals the National League Central Division crown.
And there was a little magic at work, too, in the nightcap when the Cardinals somehow won the game 1-0 in 11 innings despite striking out 17 times in the regulation nine innings with rookie Hunter Greene accounting for 11 of them as he threw a record (breaking his own) 46 pitches at 100 miles an hour or better.
“We obviously didn’t muster anything against him,” said Nolan Arenado, one of two Cardinals not to strike out against Greene (Corey Dickerson was the other).
“As good as we’ve seen this year,” said Paul Goldschmidt, who whiffed four times, three against Greene.
Cardinals lefthander Jose Quintana provided part of the magic as he pitched his best game of the season, holding the Reds to two hits in eight innings. He extended his Cardinals record to nine games at the start of his career with them in which he allowed two earned runs or fewer. He carried two games with him like that from Pittsburgh before he was traded here.
“I felt my style was really good today,” said Quintana. “I was ‘painting,’ down and away and up and in.
“Breaking ball was great and ‘Kiz’ (Andrew Knizner) called a great game. We were on the same page right away. I was really happy to make my best effort to help get the (win).”
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals notebook: Back from his minor tuneup, Dakota Hudson makes major statement
Right-hander throws career-high eight innings in Game 1 victory and displays the pace, command of multiple pitches that earns more starts. 'Legit outing,' says manager.
Derrick Goold
The four-hour drive down to Memphis gave Cardinals starter Dakota Hudson plenty of necessary time for some “self talk” about how to assure his demotion to Class AAA was not a one-way trip.
“If you don’t take yourself back and think about what you’ve been doing and where you’re going, you’re never going to come back,” Hudson said. “That’s where I had to go and have that mental talk with myself and say, ‘Hey, is this what we’re going to do? How do I get, personally, to my best?’”
His return to the Cardinals on Saturday headed him in the right direction.
With a career-best eight innings and a swift, peppy pace to his performance in Game 1 of the doubleheader, Hudson threw himself into the mix for starts and a potential postseason role. After two starts for the Triple-A Redbirds, Hudson (8-7) resurfaced in the majors with the start the Cardinals had been looking for so often this season. Hudson was able to blend his sinker and four-seam fastball, get quick outs, and held Cincinnati to one unearned run in the Cardinals’ 5-1 victory.
He was efficient, without the prolonged pauses.
Hudson completed six shutout innings on 80 pitches.
“What we’ve been waiting for,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “Legit outing.”
In his first full season since elbow reconstructive surgery, Hudson struggled with consistency, the pitches he could count on from start to start, and tempo. The rinse cycle through Memphis helped address them all. He had little choice. The pitch clock that’s coming to the majors in 2023 is already counting down in the minors, requiring pitchers to deliver a pitch within 14 seconds of receiving it with no runners on base. A violation gives the hitter a ball.
Hudson felt the tick-tock of the clock and adjusted how he received the ball from the catcher to expedite his process. He consciously tried to recreate that sensation Saturday to maintain the swift pace demanded of him at Triple-A. In his previous major-league starts, Hudson averaged 16.4 seconds between pitches — one of the slowest paces in the majors — and on Saturday he averaged 12.03 seconds. With runners on base he also was five seconds faster, according to research by Post-Dispatch digital baseball producer Carter Chapley.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Quick hits: Jose Quintana excels again for Cardinals who score only run of Game 2 in 11th
Left-hander allows two hits in eight innings. Winning run scores on error and victory goes to Matz, just taken off IL. Sweep puts magic number at nine.
Rick Hummel
Jose Quintana extended his Cardinals record to nine games at the start of his career with them in which he allowed two earned runs or fewer. But Saturday night’s game against Cincinnati was his best.
The 33-year-old left-hander permitted just two hits over eight scoreless innings, striking out six and getting 11 ground-ball outs. He had to be good because fire-balling Hunter Greene, throwing a record 46 pitches at least 100 miles an hour, also was blanking the Cardinals.
Quintana, whose outing was his longest since he shut out Milwaukee while pitching for the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 24, 2017, got only a pat on the back and internal satisfaction for his efforts because the Cardinals’ offense struck out 16 times against Reds pitching while Quintana was on the mound.
But the Cardinals nailed down a doubleheader sweep anyway, shoving across the only run of the game in the 11th inning, treating a sellout crowd of 48,299 to a 1-0 victory.
Their magic number for clinching the National League Central Division title is nine.
Paul Goldschmidt, who had struck out four times, delivered the only run in the 11th on a grounder to center fielder Nick Senzel, who was playing third in the five-man infield defense with the bases loaded and nobody out.
Senzel made a diving stop but his throw home hit Andrew Knizner in the left elbow and rolled away. The Reds protested that Knizner had interfered but to no avail.
With Knizner the automatic runner at second, Brendan Donovan walked against Fernando Cruz, who had started for the Reds the previous night. Tommy Edman, sacrificing, beat out a bunt when Cruz hesitated before throwing to first.
The winning pitcher was Steven Matz, who wasn’t even on the roster in the afternoon but was taken off the injured list when right-hander Jordan Hicks had to be placed on the IL with arm fatigue and neck spasms.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
She's NL material..............The more I see her the more I want to audition her for my harem......
See what I mean ????....................wow..................yummy...............
BTW , she's more than just a pretty face.........She knows sports and is way better than that Erica girl who was before her......
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Alexa's even got sexy toes , if you're into that sort of diversion......
