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If TON is legit back to something like last season, that's a huge development. Heck, with that K rate (small sample size alert), and all the walks he's been taking lately, could he even be better?
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Quick hits: Tyler O'Neill, Tommy Edman homer to spark late Cardinals comeback
Braves had gone ahead with homer off Helsley in seventh before Cardinals rally with four runs in eighth.
Rick Hummel
Tyler O’Neill walked off the Cardinals’ ninth-inning win over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night at Busch Stadium with the truest walk-off, a base on balls. On Sunday night, he flipped the script.
After Tommy Edman’s 425-foot leadoff homer off Atlanta left-hander A.J. Minter had tied the game in the eighth, O’Neill picked up both Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado, who had struck out with two runners on.
O’Neill did it by turning around a 97 mph fastball — same as Edman — except this one landed 423 feet away in the center-field greenery and provided a 6-3 victory. This second comeback win in two nights against the defending World Series champions gave the Cardinals the upper hand in the showdown three-game series.
O’Neill’s 10th homer followed a walk to Lars Nootbaar and an error on Brandon Donovan’s sacrifice bunt.
Adam Wainwright made the 200th start of his career at Busch Stadium III on Sunday, but his quest to reach 200 career victories by the end of this season took a hit when Atlanta’s Dansby Swanson swatted a three-run homer in the seventh.
Wainwright did not allow this homer, but closer Ryan Helsley, relieving with two on and two out in the seventh, did, failing to get a 100 mph, down-the-middle fastball past Swanson, whose 17th homer of the season put the Braves ahead. Helsley, who fanned the side in the eighth, got credit for his ninth win.
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Cardinals notebook: Jack Flaherty to start here on Labor Day after another rehab outing
Manager Marmol said the delay in right-hander's return is a "big picture" issue.
Rick Hummel
Jack Flaherty won’t be making his next start for the Cardinals next weekend but instead is being targeted to face the Washington Nationals here on Labor Day, Sept. 5. In the interim, though, the Cardinals right-hander who is recovering from a right shoulder strain, will make a fifth and final minor league rehabilitation start for Memphis at Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday night.
Manager Oliver Marmol, who met with Flaherty before Sunday night’s game, said it worked out better for roster reasons and “big picture” purposes to postpone for a few days Flaherty’s exit from the 60-day injured list. Teams can add two players, one of them a pitcher, on Sept. 1, to give them 14 pitchers on a 28-player roster the rest of the season. If Flaherty pitched here on Wednesday, Aug. 31, another pitcher would have to be optioned for 15 days.
“If the question is, ‘Do I want Jack here pitching on Wednesday?’ The answer is yes,’” said Marmol. “I think he’s more than capable and ready to go. Does it help the ‘bigger picture’ if you look at the full month with a doubleheader with Cincinnati (on Sept. 17) coming up for it to line up in a way that’s favorable to us if he were to be slotted elsewhere (in the rotation)? Yes.
“So it’s the right move for everybody.”
Marmol said Flaherty was on board with the decision.
“He understood it,” said Marmol. “He’s a competitor and obviously wants to be up here as soon as possible. He understood how it impacted everything else. He was good about it. He was actually really good about it.”
When it was mentioned that Marmol had announced the extra rehab start, Flaherty, dressing at his locker said, dispassionately, “That’s great.” And then he went out to throw a scheduled bullpen session, declining further comment.
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TON with a mammoth blast into second deck.......1-0 Cardinals.....
Albert with a solid single up the middle......
Dickerson singles to right.......
Knizner walks.......
Tommy Edman with a 2 RBI double to right .......
Noooooot with a RBI single to right ..................
Donavan with a 2 RBI single to right................
Just like that it's 6-0 Cardinals in the top of second.....
Love me some Cardinals baseball...........................
Albert with a solid single up the middle......
Dickerson singles to right.......
Knizner walks.......
Tommy Edman with a 2 RBI double to right .......
Noooooot with a RBI single to right ..................
Donavan with a 2 RBI single to right................
Just like that it's 6-0 Cardinals in the top of second.....
Love me some Cardinals baseball...........................
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Ah. That explains it. I've been busy. When I finally had a chance to look it was the bottom of the 1st.
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Mikolas gives up 3 HR's in bottom of the fifth ......All of them "" No Doubter's ""......................Oli is right to pull him ....We got a game to win for the team , not worry about Mikolas getting a win..........................
Including tonight, Cardinals' next 13 games are against Reds, Cubs, Nationals, and Pirates.
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Resurgent slugger Tyler O’Neill joins Cardinals’ August bash, aims to be ‘middle threat’
O'Neill's two homers keys Cardinals' 13-4 win at Cincinnati and gives him a walk-off walk, a game-breaking homer, and two-homer game in three days.
Derrick Goold
CINCINNATI — One of the steps Tyler O’Neill had to take in the weeks leading up to his powerful resurgence was away from the statistics that greeted him on the scoreboard and toward the ones he still had ample time to put there.
Past was past.
Present was opportunity to produce.
In the span of three days, O’Neill has shaped the outcome of games as often as rain has delayed them. O’Neill hit two home runs Monday night and contributed to two lengthy rallies (around two lengthy rain delays) as the Cardinals swamped Cincinnati, 13-4, at Great American Ball Park. O’Neill had a three-run homer that capsized Atlanta in Sunday’s game, which was delayed by rain for an hour. And that game-flipping homer came a day after his walk-off walk to defeat the Braves.
He has four home runs in his past eight at-bats. He has five walks in the past four, one of which pushed home the game-winning run.
“I want to be a part of that middle threat,” O’Neill said. “Trust myself. Trusting my game plan. Things will happen the right way. That’s the way I’m looking at it.”
O’Neill’s first homer Monday started a six-run second inning, and his second homer was part of the Cardinals’ four-run sixth inning. Joining in the jamboree was a two-run homer from Albert Pujols that gave him 694 in his career and at least one homer against a major-league record 450 different pitchers. Corey Dickerson added a solo homer in the ninth to set the final score.
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Cardinals notebook: How Ryan Helsley's use in litmus test vs. Atlanta hints at October
“You’re constantly evaluating your performance against teams that are good,” says manager Marmol after series win vs. defending champs.
Derrick Goold
CINCINNATI — When manager Oliver Marmol and his staff workshopped myriad scenarios the Cardinals could encounter Sunday night against Atlanta, one was two runners on and two outs in the seventh inning, and leadoff hitter Dansby Swanson coming to the plate for at least his third, maybe fourth plate appearance.
In this hypothetical, they planned to go to closer Ryan Helsley for four outs and leave the ninth for Giovanny Gallegos. In reality, they did exactly that.
“I like the move. Didn’t work out. But I’d do it every time,” Marmol said Monday afternoon, a day after Helsley allowed a three-run homer in that moment but recovered to strike out the side and score the win. “That’s exactly what you want — to be able to use him in two meaningful ways and get two wins. That series we just played, using him back-to-back days and getting two wins out of it, that’s what he’s here for.”
Helsley’s use, the Cardinals’ last at-bat wins, all against a formidable Atlanta team gave this past weekend, in the St. Louis heat of August, a brief shiver of October.
Some of that was the circumstance.
A lot of that was the opponent.
“You’re constantly evaluating your performance against teams that are good,” Marmol said. “You finish that series and you understand you just went blow for blow and you came out winning that series. It’s something that you build off of from a confidence standpoint and continue to roll.”
The series against the Braves, the reigning World Series champs, was an island on the Cardinals’ schedule surrounded by a sea of teams already underwater.
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Albert Pujols breaks Barry Bonds’ MLB record with homer off St. Louis native Ross Detwiler
Detwiler, a 14-year vet in the majors and graduate of Wentzville Holt High, is the 450th different pitcher to allow a homer to Pujols. Bonds' record was 449.
Derrick Goold
CINCINNATI — The pitch that Albert Pujols hit to set a new major-league record came from the hand of a St. Louis kid who was in high school when it all started.
Reds lefty Ross Detwiler, a freshman at Wentzville Holt High when Pujols made his major-league debut, delivered an 0-2 fastball to Pujols in the third inning Monday night at Great American Ball Park. Pujols connected on the 92.8 mph pitch and lofted it toward right field and into the seats.
Pujols’ 694th career home run put him two shy of tying Alex Rodriguez, six away from becoming the fourth member of the 700 club and one ahead of Bonds for a big-league record.
Detwiler was the 450th different pitcher Pujols had homered against.
On his way to 762 home runs, Bonds hit at least one homer off 449 different pitchers. Pujols, who split his career between the American League and National League, tied the record with his home run this past week off Drew Smyly at Wrigley Field. Facing another lefty, Missouri State alum Detwiler, he set it with his 15th home run of the season. A first-round pick in 2007, Detwiler grew up going to Cardinals games and has spent 14 seasons in the majors, and Pujols has had nine other cracks at hitting a home run against the lefty.
Although this was the first time Detwiler faced Pujols in a Cardinals jersey.
To put the record in perspective, consider if Pujols only had those 450 home runs off 450 different pitchers. He would still rank ahead of Hall of Famers Jeff Bagwell and Vladimir Guerrero Sr. in career homers. They each had 449 career homers.
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Albert " The Machine " Pujols.......................
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Minor-league report: Outfielder L.J. Jones doubles three times, drives in eight runs
Class High-A Peoria outfielder L.J. Jones drove in a hit a grand slam, doubled three times, and drove in a career-high eight RBIs on Sunday.
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Class High-A Peoria’s series finale did not go a full nine innings due to rain on Sunday, but outfielder L.J. Jones still managed to have one of the best offensive performances of his career.
Jones, the Cardinals’ fifth-round pick in the 2020 draft, went four-for-five with three doubles, a grand slam, and eight RBIs as the Chiefs routed the Sky Carp 14-1. The eight RBIs and three doubles were both career-highs for the San Diego, California native.
Along with Jones’ strong day at the plate, these are some of the notable performances by Cardinals minor-leaguers:
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Read the full transcript of Hall of Fame baseball writer Rick Hummel's Monday Cardinals chat
Bring your Cards questions and comments to Monday’s 11 a.m. live chat.
Bring your Cards questions and comments to Monday’s 11 a.m. live chat.
Greetings!
Magic number is 30. Schedule favorable for Cardinals. What's on your mind?
Commish .
And the Brewers have a 7 game road trip out west to Colorado and Arizona. Those trips are always tricky. We have a good chance to push the lead to 8 games by the time the Brewers come to STL for a 2 game series. And that's where we can give them the knockout punch.
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Tipsheet: Former Cardinals closer Rosenthal suffers still another setback
The Brewers hoped to benefit from Trevor Rosenthal's latest comeback bids. But this bid, like his previous bids, ended with another injury.
Former Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal keeps coming back from injuries. Teams keep paying him to attempt these comebacks.
Sadly, though, he keeps getting hurt again. Repetitive max-effort pitching takes a toll and Rosenthal is the poster boy for relief pitcher attrition.
He was nearing a return the majors for the Milwaukee Brewers this season. Rosenthal was wrapping up a minor league rehabilitation stint with Triple-A Nashville while recovering from a hamstring strain.
Then he suffered a teres major injury. Tipsheet has no idea what that is, but it’s the same injury that shelved Brewers starting pitcher Freddy Peralta for 2½ months, so it can't be good.
This is just another setback on top of all the other setbacks that Rosenthal, 32, has endured since last pitching for the Cardinals in 2017.
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