NEIlliniFan
- No longer in New England
For the first time in 20 years, #57 takes the mound for St Louis. And it happens at Wrigley where DK didn't take that Sunday start.
St. Louis Cardinals 2022
From the best I can tell, it's the first time one team has one three straight NL PotM since 2006 when the Phillies won three straight with Utley in July and Howard in August/September
Per Derrick Goold, it's the first time since the 1970s three different players on the same team won three consecutive player of the month awards.
How do the Cardinals fans on here feel about this?
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Rout at Wrigley: Goldschmidt, Gorman launch scoring frenzy as Cardinals overwhelm Cubs, 14-5
Friday's Cardinals win was as complete and thorough as any so far this season.
Derrick Goold
CHICAGO — The Cardinals have twisted and folded and explored every corner of their roster in recent weeks hoping that out of their transaction origami enough pitching would emerge to cover necessary innings.
They’ve promoted, demoted, debuted, and repurposed, and they will again Saturday for a doubleheader at Wrigley Field. They’ve gone to great lengths for short solutions when one way to salve their concern was obvious all along, and it has been since the manager started trumpeting it way back in spring training.
The offense could carry them for a bit.
In a romp at Wrigley, the Cardinals flexed the versatility and power of their rookie-infused lineup and thoroughly trounced the Cubs, 14-5, on Friday afternoon. They had a comeback, extended their leads, and got a clutch homer from Paul Goldschmidt to extend his hitting streak to 25 games. The Cardinals stole three bases, hit five homers, and the top three spots in the lineup combined for six runs by the end of the sixth inning. Corey Dickerson hit his first home run of the season, and then went five whole innings before hitting his second.
They didn’t wait around and rely on the three-run homer, but they got two of those, too. The second one traveled 420 feet into the right-field bleachers and came off the bat of rookie Nolan Gorman in his return to the lineup from back stiffness.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Cardinals throw open competition for rotation spot: Debut Thompson, set to audition Pallante
Reliever Pallante and returning prospect Oviedo will start in Saturday's doubleheader as injuries, inconsistencies give Cardinals chance to explore options.
Derrick Goold
CHICAGO — When he imagined pitching in the majors as a boy in Indiana, the ballpark Zack Thompson saw sprouting up around him in his backyard was Wrigley Field, all ivy covered, creaky, and green. It was there that he’d envision making a start, and when he dreamed of throwing the last pitch of a World Series it was Wrigley in his mind.
When he made the first pitch of his career Friday, it was Wrigley at his feet.
“This was the place, this was all of it,” Thompson said. “Dreamed of this day my whole life. (To) do it here at Wrigley means a ton. Mentally, I’ve been here several times. Words can’t describe it.”
A few hours after being added to the active roster, Thompson, 24, debuted with four solid innings to close out the Cardinals’ 14-5 victory against the Cubs. The rookie lefty earned the save in his first audition to be a starter. Thompson’s promotion was part of a series of roster moves Friday morning that highlighted how the Cardinals have thrown open a casting call for the rotation — and they’ll give a parade of young pitchers a chance to seize it.
Johan Oviedo, promoted from Class AAA Memphis on Friday, and rookie reliever Andre Pallante will start the games of Saturday’s doubleheader. The Cardinals plan to add Jake Woodford as the 27th man for the two games. Any of the three could make a case to stay in the rotation, following the looks rookie Matthew Liberatore, lefty Packy Naughton, and Jordan Hicks received as starters.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Gordo: Booming minor-league bats are creating looming big-league decisions
The noise created by sluggers like Alec Burleson and Jordan Walker is certainly being heard by fans in St. Louis.
Jeff Gordon
Here are the highlights from our weekly chat with Post-Dispatch subscribers.
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good read
It couldn't go on forever. It's just a fluke it happened at Wrigley.
How Albert Pujols is using his final season to mentor a budding St. Louis Cardinals slugger
When StL signed Albert I think most of us were looking at his ABs Avg and OPS. His greater impact may well be in helping the young players shorten their learning curve. Perhaps even teaching them how to avoid the pitfalls that occur so often when baseball adjusts to attack a player's weaknesses.
There is more to the story
When StL signed Albert I think most of us were looking at his ABs Avg and OPS. His greater impact may well be in helping the young players shorten their learning curve. Perhaps even teaching them how to avoid the pitfalls that occur so often when baseball adjusts to attack a player's weaknesses.
There is more to the story
It's become a running joke on the Bally Sports Midwest broadcasts that they show Yepez and Pujols sitting next to each other in the dugouts and it looks as if Yepez is just talking Pujols' ear off.
Ryllini
- Lombard
I don't mind it, baseball(sports) is goofy in this way. Just happenstance that it happened in Wrigley.
NEIlliniFan
- No longer in New England
I'm ok with it. Admit I inhaled sharply the first time I saw Thompson in #57 but it passed.
I figure DK would prefer to be honored by someone wearing #57 and competing their tush off rather than by the number being mothballed.
I figure DK would prefer to be honored by someone wearing #57 and competing their tush off rather than by the number being mothballed.
Ryllini
- Lombard
Our birds like many teams make pitchers we've never seen before look like world beaters, so why do we have Edman and Donovan first pitch picking? I know Edman's average on first pitch picking is up there, but this is a guy we need to grind. Got into their pen yesterday and a double header today, make him work.
With that being said, I'm now standing in my kitchen stuffing my face and these guys have the scouting report.
With that being said, I'm now standing in my kitchen stuffing my face and these guys have the scouting report.
It is pretty funny.
the national
- the Front Range
What happened with Sosa base running at 3rd? Heard some chatter but wasn’t watching live.
I no longer question anything Edman does. This guy always seems prepared and has a plan. He reminds of Skip Schumacher but even more talented. This guy knows what he is doing. I would not be surprised to see him as a MLB manager some day.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Donovan delivers: Rookie’s 10th-inning hit wins Game 2, splits doubleheader on long, weird Wrigley day
A day that featured Albert Pujols' 3,000th game and Oliver Marmol's first ejection ended with aggressive bullpen use and a rookie's breakthrough hit.
Derrick Goold
CHICAGO — Before things completely tilted toward Wrigley Weird — trademark pending — the Cardinals got just enough from two pitchers in their first starts of the season to make it possible, when they had a lead, to deploy the bullpen exactly as designed.
And when that didn’t even work, there was always Brendan Donovan.
Despite their top right-handed relievers lined up for use, as scripted, the Cardinals lost a lead and missed offensively on two bases-loaded chances late in the night game of a doubleheader Saturday against the Cubs. Rookie Donovan, who claimed the lead six innings earlier, delivered his second two-run double of the game to break a tie and ignite a four-run 10th inning against Cubs reliever Michael Rucker. Donovan pushed the Cardinals ahead to split the doubleheader with a Game 2 win, 7-4.
"Those are the type of players you win with," manager Oliver Marmol said of Donovan 24 hours before the rookie's game-winning double.
"I was just trying to get something up, stay off the ground, and try to advance the runners over," Donovan said. "I was just trying to help us win."
The Cubs cinched a 6-1 win in Game 1 with 18 baserunners and one pitch that piqued the Cardinals.
A suitably wild, sometimes wacky, and at least once angry day at Wrigley refused to be content with a mere 18 innings of baseball and demanded a 19th between the region’s oldest rivals. The first 18 included Albert Pujols' 3,000th game and Marmol's first career ejection, a colorful display that will find immortality on social media. And then, at the end, the most unexpected feat of all.
IlliniFan85
- Colorado Springs, CO
I think dodging the Gorman base hit threw his timing off. This caused him to miss 3rd. So he had to go back.
Still feels weird to not see Memphis in the PCL.