St. Louis Cardinals 2022

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Quick Hits: Not even Mikolas can keep Cardinals from reeling as Braves silence lineup, 3-0

Ozuna's homer the first of back-to-back shots that dent Mikolas's duel with Atlanta ace lefty Fried. Pujols strides closer to a Musial all-time record.
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Derrick Goold
ATLANTA — Whether Miles Mikolas was teasing a no-hitter or shouldering another quality start for a rotation in need of every single one, the Cardinals have trumpeted the right-hander as an All-Star candidate and equal to all the aces he’s faced, from Max Scherzer to Corbin Burnes.
“Aces go against aces,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “That’s how it works.”
Mikolas matched Atlanta lefty Max Fried draw for draw until the game Wednesday night took a turn on the river. In the fifth, the Braves decked the Cardinals with two solo home runs in the span of three pitches to send them toward a 3-0 victory at Truist Field. Mikolas gave an innings-starved team everything it needed with his six innings of quality baseball.

The offense backed him with nothing.
On their way to a fourth consecutive loss, the Cardinals left nine batters on base. They have scored a total of one run since midnight Monday against Atlanta. They had fleeting opportunities against Fried with a baserunner in each of the first four innings, but the best chance to break the flush of zeroes on the scoreboard came in the eighth inning. In a stunning move given the names involved but not the year, Albert Pujols was lifted for a pinch-hitter with the bases loaded in the eighth.
 
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IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:
So is Truist Park now a new house of horrors for the Cardinals?
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I've been a bit miffed that StL doesn't have a winning record against "decent" teams. This morning I was looking at the standings on the MLB website. (I usually don't go there.) I discovered only 4 teams have a winning record. Yanks 26-13 Mets 25-19 Atlanta 21-18 (Thanks in part to beating the Cards this week.) LAD with a rather modest 19-15. it is frustrating but I guess there is still hope for them.
 
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I've been a bit miffed that StL doesn't have a winning record against "decent" teams. This morning I was looking at the standings on the MLB website. (I usually don't go there.) I discovered only 4 teams have a winning record. Yanks 26-13 Mets 25-19 Atlanta 21-18 (Thanks in part to beating the Cards this week.) LAD with a rather modest 19-15. it is frustrating but I guess there is still hope for them.
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Difference between Cardinals and Brewers right now is divisional record. Milwaukee is 27-17. Cardinals are 22-14. That's a 4 game difference and Cardinals were 3 games back going into tonight.
 
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Quick Hits: Carlson saves Cardinals with dynamic catch, delivers winner in extras to end losing streak

Carlson’s single in the 11th inning scored Nolan Arenado to take the Cardinals’ third lead of the game, and this one held. Packy Naughton closed out the 11th for his
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Derrick Goold
ATLANTA — Before he could win the game, Dylan Carlson had to save it.
Two innings after his leaping catch in deep center field helped force a tie game into extra innings Thursday at Truist Park, Carlson put the Cardinals ahead with his third hit in a game he did not start. Carlson’s single in the 11th inning scored Nolan Arenado to take the Cardinals’ third lead of the game, and this one held. Packy Naughton closed out the 11th for a 3-2 victory against the Braves and his first save of the season.
Twice the Cardinals got a sacrifice fly to take a lead and attempt to leave Atlanta with a souvenir other than a losing streak. Each time, the tenacious Braves answered in the same inning.

By rule, Arenado started the 11th on second base. He reached third when Nolan Gorman singled to right, and that brought up Carlson to send Arenado home as the go-ahead run. The Cardinals’ outfielder pinch-hit in the seventh inning to take part in the Cardinals’ first rally, and by the end of the game he had gone 3 for 3 with a pivotal catch.
The first half of the game was dictated by one young pitcher finding his footing in the majors and another who has announced his arrival with dominance.
 
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Good to get a win and avoid the sweep, and it was nice to see Carlson come up big. Looks like TON may be back today so hopefully that'll give the lineup a shot in the arm. He was starting to find his groove again before this most recent injury.
 
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IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:
Difference between Cardinals and Brewers right now is divisional record. Milwaukee is 27-17. Cardinals are 22-14. That's a 4 game difference and Cardinals were 3 games back going into tonight.
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I guess my point is, even IF the Cards make the playoffs, don't expect much from them. They wilt when they face the better teams. Of course there is the very old saying that they might get hot at the right time. While it is true it very rarely happens.
 
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Quick hits: Wainwright hurls complete game but Cardinals fall to Phils' Wheeler again, 2-0

Cardinals have two complete games this season. They have lost both and have dropped seven of nine overall.
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Rick Hummel
After winning just one of his seven previous starts, Cardinals right-hander Adam Wainwright turned in a rare complete game Friday night at Busch Stadium. But he didn’t receive a run for the second time in five days against Philadelphia ace Zack Wheeler.
Wheeler blanked the Cardinals on four hits over seven innings on Sunday. On Friday, he blanked them on five hits over seven innings.
Wainwright (6-7) held the Phillies to four hits himself but two of those were home runs by Alec Bohm — one in the fourth inning and one in the eighth — as Philadelphia held off the Cardinals 2-0. The Cardinals suffered their ninth shutout of the season and third in six games.

Discounting their rulebook-aided runs in extra innings in a win over Atlanta on Thursday, the Cardinals have scored only two runs in their past 39 innings in regular time. And they have dropped seven of their past nine games overall.
But pinch-hitter Albert Pujols nearly put an end to the shutout when he ripped a drive to left off left-hander Brad Hand to open the ninth. But left fielder Kyle Schwarber jumped to make the catch before bumping the left-field wall
 
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pruman91 said:
But pinch-hitter Albert Pujols nearly put an end to the shutout when he ripped a drive to left off left-hander Brad Hand to open the ninth. But left fielder Kyle Schwarber jumped to make the catch before bumping the left-field wall
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A couple of weeks ago Albert hit a ball to the wall that was also caught. I told my wife 5 years ago he would have hit it over the wall. Age has consequences even if you are a professional and in great shape.
 
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Gotta feel bad for Tommy Edman who basically was a shoe-in for his first All-Star selection brfore he hit this current slump he's in. Shpuld still be an All-Star btw, but it got a lot easier to snub him over the last couple weeks unfortunately.

Goldschmidt, Arenado, Helsley and Pujols (special selection) are the Cardinals slelected for the game.
 
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Cardinals, finally, have the aura of a winner as they rally to nip Phillies 4-3

Pujols catches Musial in extra-base hits as he homers, besides singling twice. Edman helps tie and win game. Carlson ignores injury and slides home safely. .
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Rick Hummel
His team had lost seven of eight games, and eight of 10, and had been shut out four times in that span. So, Cardinals right-hander Miles Mikolas decided it was time for action
At mid-morning Sunday, Mikolas was in the empty Cardinals dugout near the bat rack, burning some incense, as he has been known to do once in a while.
“Fresh start, you know,” Mikolas said before the game with the Philadelphia Phillies. “Get the evil spirits out. New beginnings. Try to mix it up.”
Mikolas said he felt “100% better” after his burn party, although the aroma went farther than he thought. “The air current in the clubhouse kind of sucked it up,” he said.

“It was done for the aura of things, in general.”
As mentioned, things generally had been pretty bad lately for the Cardinals.
But they had a blast from the past with Albert Pujols singling twice and homering, the extra-base hit tying him with Cardinals legend Stan Musial for third place on the big-league career list (1,377). Pujols even ran the bases with selected abandon.
 
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Quick Hits: A Man-ly milestone for Pujols, homer from Dickerson back Mikolas as Cardinals stop Phils

In 6-1 victory, Pujols' double is his 1,378th extra-base hit, passing Musial for third all-time. Mikolas sweetens his All-Star claim with 7⅓ superb innings to split series.
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Derrick Goold
If there is to be a fifth player plucked from the Cardinals’ roster and added to next week’s All-Star Game, the sage choice would be starter Miles Mikolas.
A day after he walked the field with some burning sage leaves and fumigated the team’s bat rack with smoke from the plant named for “healing,” Mikolas cleared the air and made his case from the mound. The Cardinals’ right-hander pitched a strong 7⅓ innings, buying time for the rally and power that came from the bottom of the lineup in a 6-1 victory Monday against Philadelphia at Busch Stadium.
A series that began with two consecutive shutout losses and endless questions about the direction of the Cardinals’ offense ended with home runs by Corey Dickerson and Lars Nootbaar — hit presumably with bats that received attention from Mikolas’ herbal remedy.

The Cardinals rallied with six unanswered runs to split the four-game visit from the Phillies and get some traction in a rigorous portion of the schedule.
The Los Angeles Dodgers, away from their ballpark as they prep for next week’s All-Star Game, visit for a midweek three-game series starting on Tuesday, and there is about to be some roster churn when it comes to the All-Star participants.
Monday’s game featured two starters overlooked by the National League: Mikolas and Philadelphia's Aaron Nola. The Phillies’ right-hander has been an innings brute, carrying 111⅓ innings into Monday’s start. Like Mikolas, Nola’s record (now 5-7) misleads a stat line that also includes a 3.15 ERA.
 
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I'm not too sure how we won that one tonight. I think Gio is broken by the way. He has given up too many runs lately. Packy is the one who really got the save in my opinion.
 
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That was a terrible collapse. Terrible. Oli is pulling the same bullpen shenanigans that Shildt did. I just don’t trust the middle relievers at all. No trust. And I don’t think the rest of the team does either. What’s next? It doesn’t matter how many position players we get healthy - if we don’t have a pen, we will not be playing in October.

Packy did some nice work but Ver Hagan immediately had me nervous. What is his ERA? 6.86 is awful. 6-0 lead should have been safe but I’ve seen him collapse too many times. Once he gave up the homer, the bad juju got to everyone else they ran out there. The mental part of the game is eating these guys alive. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️