Having the umpires announce the decision on replay reviews is about the best we're going to get I'm afraid.
St. Louis Cardinals 2022
Having the umpires announce the decision on replay reviews is about the best we're going to get I'm afraid.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals' bullpen stars in beginning, middle and end of 6-3 win over Padres
Gorman has three hits, including a two-run homer. Goldschmidt also has two-run homer as he extends hitting streak to 21 games.
Rick Hummel
In manager Oliver Marmol’s perfect world, left-hander Patrick “Packy” Naughton and Andre Pallante, the rookie relievers who were the first two hurlers for the Cardinals in Monday afternoon’s “bullpen game,” would have pitched the first six innings. The final three would belong to late-inning stalwarts Giovanny Gallegos, Genesis Cabrera and Ryan Helsley.
“In an ideal world, it would have been three and three (for both Naughton and Pallante),” said Marmol.
Marmol got close, at a total of 5 2/3 innings. But that was enough as the aforementioned five pitchers stopped the San Diego Padres 6-3 before 42,140 fans at Busch Stadium.
Rookie Nolan Gorman, who had three hits and a walk, bashed a two-run homer. So did Paul Goldschmidt, who extended his hitting streak to 21 games with his two-run shot in the seventh when the lead had been just one run. Gorman’s second single had preceded Goldschmidt’s drive off reliever Steven Wilson.
The Cardinals went to six games over .500 for the fourth time this season and their pitchers struck out a season-high 13 batters.
Naughton, a Cincinnati draft pick who had been with the Los Angeles Angels before the Cardinals acquired him on waivers this spring, just had been recalled from Class AAA Memphis. He allowed two hits and one run over the first 2 1/3 innings, fanning four. But at that point, the Padres’ lineup was back at the top and Marmol said he did not want Naughton to try to navigate it again.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals notebook: Marmol says Woodford's demotion not performance related
Right-hander has 'outperformed' several pitches who are still here, but that he needs to improve his slider, manager says.
Rick Hummel
Jake Woodford was sent out on Monday for the second time this month by the Cardinals, and manager Oliver Marmol said it wasn’t a performance-related move.
As expected, left-hander Packy Naughton was called up from Class AAA Memphis to make Monday’s start for the Cardinals against San Diego. As expected, right-hander Woodford, who finished last season in the Cardinals’ rotation, was dispatched to Memphis to make room for Naughton, armed with the organization’s stipulation that he make his slider a big-league pitch.
Marmol said he didn’t have a problem with Woodford’s four-seam fastball or two-seam fastball but he didn’t think Woodford’s slider was as good as it was in 2021 when he made five starts for the Cardinals down the stretch.
“(The slider) needs to improve,” Marmol said.
Woodford declined comment after he was told he was being sent back and Marmol said Woodford had a right to be disappointed and made a point of saying that Woodford had pitched better than some of the pitchers who still are here.
“He absolutely should be disappointed,” Marmol said. “He’s performed well. Every time we’ve given him a shot, he’s done what we called him to do. It was a tough decision.
“I don’t think anybody gets a taste of the big leagues and enjoys going back down.”
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Hochman: 'Do damage.' Inside the mindset and mantra of Cardinals rookie Nolan Gorman
"I think he's got more in the tank than he has shown already," teammate Matthew Liberatore said. "And I think that's kind of scary to think about, in a good
Benjamin Hochman
As Nolan Gorman described pitch-by-pitch an at-bat from Monday, a phrase kept popping up.
“First pitch …. not a pitch I’m going to do damage with.”
“Second pitch … not going to do damage with that pitch.”
It was an interesting glimpse into his mindset. As the Cardinals second baseman watches a pitch, it’s as if his decision-making process is binary: Can I do damage or not?
“Yeah, exactly,” Gorman confirmed.
Do damage.
That’s the ambition and the mission. The objective is to obliterate. And on Monday, in his 10th big-league game, the kid hit the two-hardest balls by a Cardinal — his 105.7 mph home run and his 105.4 mph single.
In the 6-3 win against the Padres at Busch Stadium, Gorman reached base in all four plate appearances (he tallied another single and walked). He’s hitting .387 with a 1.149 OPS, and according to the ballplayer who knows him best: “I don't think he's even reached his full potential as far as his ability to hit the ball a long ways yet,” said boyhood buddy and lanky lefty hurler Matthew Liberatore, a fellow Cards rookie. “Not to say that he doesn't do a good job of that already. But I think he's got more in the tank than he has shown already. And I think that's kind of scary to think about, in a good way.
“I mean, every ball that he hit today was absolutely torched. Even his foul balls were like 105 (mph) and straight at me in the dugout — both of the balls came straight at me, but luckily the barrier was in front of me. He just makes loud outs, he makes a lot of loud contact and it's fun to watch.”
Starting to understand more and more why they flipped Helsley and Gallegos in the 8th inning/closer role.
Thankfully the boys were able to hold on today. Albert with 2 Sac Flys tonight as well as a base hit. Nice game for him. Great play by Noot as well in top of 10th to keep the game even! Another winner!
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Pujols rescues Cardinals in 10th for 3-2 win as Goldschmidt, Wainwright shine
Goldschmidt extends hitting streak to 22 as he knocks in one run and scores another. Wainwright holds Padres to two hits, fans 10 in seven innings.
As Cardinals linchpins Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina march inexorably toward the all-time record for starts made by one major league battery, Paul Goldschmidt marches to ... well, we don’t exactly know yet.
Wainwright and Molina celebrated their 314th start, 10 shy of the Mickey Lolich-Bill Freehan record set with Detroit, with Wainwright blanking the San Diego Padres on two hits and fanning 10 in seven innings Tuesday night at Busch Stadium. That Wainwright would stymie the Padres here should be no surprise. He is 6-0 with a 1.64 earned run average against the Padres at Busch and hasn’t given up a home run here to San Diego in 65 2/3 innings.
Goldschmidt bumped up to his hitting streak to 22 games with a third-inning double that knocked in the first Cardinals run before he scored another on a sacrifice fly.
There was one flaw in this masterpiece. Giovanny Gallegos surrendered a two-run, game-tying homer to Trent Grisham in the eighth. But all still was golden for the Cardinals. After an intentional walk to Goldschmidt in the 10th, “ghost runner” Tommy Edman stole third with one out and Albert Pujols, on a 1-2 pitch, delivered his second sacrifice fly of the night for a 3-2 Cardinals victory.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals notebook: Flaherty says he feels better than he has in at least a year
Exactly a year to the date he was hurt, right-hander has impressive session against Cardinals hitters.
Rick Hummel
Cardinals right-hander Jack Flaherty, out all season with a shoulder issue, had his most ambitious pitching session of his comeback on Tuesday. Pitching to Cardinals reserves Lars Nootbaar and Andrew Knizner, Flaherty threw 40 pitches, incorporating his whole arsenal in his two-inning stint, and said he felt better than he had in at least a year.
Make that a calendar year, in fact. On May 31 Flaherty’s season came tumbling down when he suffered an oblique injury while batting in a game at Los Angeles. He later would hurt his shoulder and, the two stints on the injured list left him with a 9-2 record rather than perhaps double that win total.
The discomfort in his shoulder continued into the offseason and then into spring training which he actually hasn’t had yet. That part will come in June when he might have to make three or four rehab starts in the minors.
For now, Flaherty said, “I feel great. Some of the results (command etc.) aren’t going to be there right away but my stuff came out and I felt healthy. I’m looking forward to face hitters who aren’t our guys.
“It’s always a weird setting throwing against your guys,” said Flaherty.
Nonetheless, he took it as a regular-season game to the point of saying a quiet prayer and jumping over the chalk on the foul line. “You try to make it the same as you can,” said Flaherty.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Tipsheet: Cardinals can't call on J.A. Happ for midseason pitching rescue
Former Cardinals pitcher J.A. Happ called it a career, so that's another name to scratch off the list as the team seeks emergency pitching help.
Jeff Gordon
There’s a real possibility the Cardinals will run out of pitching this week.
They won the first two games of the San Diego Padres series while burning through their bullpen, first with a desperate “bullpen start” Monday and then with the 10-inning victory Tuesday.
Dakota Hudson starts Wednesday and he’s not been going deep into games. There is that doubleheader looming Saturday in Chicago and the team doesn't have much of use at Triple-A Memphis.
And it’s not like J.A. Happ will be walking through the door again this season.
Like Jon Lester, another midseason 2021 Cardinals addition who fit snugly into the team chemistry, Happ decided to call it quits this year.
Happ turns 40 in October. He was effective for the Cardinals last season, going 5-2 with a 4.00 earned-run average in 11 starts, but he didn’t generate compelling interest as a free agent over the winter.
“It got to the point where it was Opening Day, and I turned the first game on, and I talked to my wife, Morgan, and I said ’What are you feeling?’” Happ said during a May 26 episode of “The Heart Strong” podcast.
“[Morgan] just kind of looked at me and said, ’A little anxiety.’ I wanted to turn it on to see what I felt, too, and I didn’t maybe feel what I needed to feel in order to think I wanted to keep doing this,” Happ explained. “I felt like that was a sign, like, ’OK, it’s time to go.'”
I woke up in the middle of the night. When I couldn't fall back to sleep I decided to see how the game turned out. I was trying to figure out how they could score a run on 1 walk, no hits or errors. It was 2 am so I forgot about the ghost runner at 2nd. I had to read the summary for that minor detail.But all still was golden for the Cardinals. After an intentional walk to Goldschmidt in the 10th, “ghost runner” Tommy Edman stole third with one out and Albert Pujols, on a 1-2 pitch, delivered his second sacrifice fly of the night for a 3-2 Cardinals victory.Pujols rescues Cardinals in 10th for 3-2 win as Goldschmidt, Wainwright shine
Goldschmidt extends hitting streak to 22 as he knocks in one run and scores another. Wainwright holds Padres to two hits, fans 10 in seven innings.www.stltoday.com
IlliniFan85
- Colorado Springs, CO
Sweeps are fun. Especially when you are on vacation. And don't get to watch or follow along as much.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Hudson, Arenado end frustrations in 5-2 Cardinals win over San Diego
Series sweep completes 6-3 home stand against contenders Toronto, Milwaukee, San Diego. Goldschmidt hit streak goes to 23.
Rick Hummel
Dakota Hudson had been waiting for the day he would still be pitching in the seventh inning for the Cardinals. He hadn’t made it past the fifth in his previous four starts.
Nolan Arenado was waiting for the day he would hit something besides the occasional single. In five recent games, he hadn’t even had that, going nothing for 17.
But Hudson, bailed out in the first inning by center fielder Harrison Bader’s diving catch that saved two runs, retired 18 men in a row before the San Diego Padres had two singles in the seventh inning. Hudson finished that seventh inning, allowing just four hits for the game and, more importantly walking only one.
And he finished the seventh ahead because Arenado, the National League Player of the Month for April but certainly not for May, smacked his first homer in two weeks. Arenado’s two-run liner to left in the sixth following a single by Paul Goldschmidt, who almost certainly will be Player of the Month for May, and Arenado’s RBI single in a two-run eighth provided the difference in a 5-2 Cardinals victory Wednesday at Busch Stadium.
“The first inning looked a little scary,” said Arenado. “But, almost in the blink of an eye, (Hudson) was going seven innings.”
IlliniFan85
- Colorado Springs, CO
Ahhhhh. Still no Gorman. His back needs to stop spasming!
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NEIlliniFan
- No longer in New England
I'm appreciating every single moment of Waino in a BOTB uni. #historical
Cardinals' Tyler O'Neill: Beginning rehab stint Friday
Cardinals' Tyler O'Neill: Beginning rehab stint Friday
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Here's hoping he pulls it together. With TON at his best this lineup could really be something special.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cubs sock three homers off rookie Liberatore, knock wind from Cardinals' winning streak
In their first visit to Chicago, the Cardinals trailed five pitches into the bottom of the first inning.
Derrick Goold
CHICAGO — Gusting out of St. Louis on a winning streak after a clean sweep of San Diego, the Cardinals were reminded abruptly how fast the winds can change at Wrigley Field.
Even when it’s not windy at all.
In their first visit to Chicago — late enough in the season that the ivy is green and flourishing, even if the home club is not — the Cardinals trailed five pitches into the bottom of the first inning. The Cubs hit three home runs by the start of the fourth inning, and with the wind knocked out of them the Cardinals spent most of the game playing catchup in a 7-5 loss to the Cubs on Thursday. Harrison Bader’s two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning would have been much more dramatic had Kodi Whitley not allowed two inherited runners to score in the bottom of the eighth.
Bader’s blast to center meant the decisive run in the game scored on a bases-load walk.
The Cubs got four of their runs, five extra-base hits, and three home runs off rookie Matthew Liberatore (1-1). Cubs starter Keegan Thompson had a seven-pitch first inning and, despite a hiccup that tied the game briefly, finished 5 1/3 innings to improve to 6-0.
The Cardinals briefly tied the game in the top of the third inning when Paul Goldschmidt, a favorite to win the National League’s player of the month award for May, didn’t let a new page on the calendar slow his production. Goldschmidt extended his hitting streak to 24 games with an RBI double in the third. He scored Bader, and then Goldschmidt scored on Nolan Arenado’s RBI single to level the game, 2-2.
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Whitley isn't ready for major league pressure situations right now...........................jmho
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals call on Zack Thompson and Woodford for depth, prepping for wild, wild weekend at Wrigley
First-round pick Thompson and Woodford, just recently demoted to Class AAA, are on the taxi squad. They are both candidates to start Saturday's games.
Derrick Goold
CHICAGO — The fallout from the 99-day lockout brings the Cardinals to the North Side of Chicago later than advertised in the 2022 season but also with more games than planned and more innings to cover than ideal.
Welcome to an inevitably wild weekend at Wrigley.
The Cardinals packed for it.
As they brace themselves for a four-day, five-game visit to Wrigley Field, joining the Cardinals at the team hotel on Thursday were pitchers Jake Woodford and Zack Thompson. Woodford would be eligible to be the 27th man for Saturday's doubleheader. Thompson is a candidate to start that game in what would be his major-league debut. The Cardinals' first-round pick in 2019 draft has been strong in Class AAA, pairing there with Thursday's starter Matthew Liberatore.
They are the top two left-handed pitching prospects in the Cardinals' organization. If he does not start Saturday, Thompson could yet contribute to the Cardinals as a reliever. He has a 97-mph fastball and a strong breaking ball that would be a fit for the Cardinals' bullpen if they continue to search for consistent left-handed relief.
Woodford and Thompson are technically on the taxi squad for the series and cannot be at the ballpark as the four-day, five-game series opens.
Matt Carpenter hit a leadoff home run off Shohei yesterday:
He's had an interesting start to his career as a Yankee. Only batting 0.188 but all 3 of his hits have been homers (in just 19 PAs) so his OPS is 1.066. Dickerson still has zero HRs (in 101 PAs).
Still think letting him go was the right move, in a vacuum, but letting him go only to replace him with Dickerson was a lost opportunity. Hope his run of success continues.
He's had an interesting start to his career as a Yankee. Only batting 0.188 but all 3 of his hits have been homers (in just 19 PAs) so his OPS is 1.066. Dickerson still has zero HRs (in 101 PAs).
Still think letting him go was the right move, in a vacuum, but letting him go only to replace him with Dickerson was a lost opportunity. Hope his run of success continues.
I cracked the code. Thanks IlliniFaninHoosierLand
And he just homered. Goldy could win MVP this year.
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