St. Louis Cardinals 2022

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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Cardinals beat the brewers 4 -1 and increase their lead back to 8 games......

The bullpen only allowed 2 hits in 4 innings , with Helsley striking out the side in the 9th inning..........

Lars Nootbaar hit the longest home run at Busch III this year at 452 feet..............


THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!............................................
 
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Dee_4_Three_83

Dee_4_Three_83
Mahomet, IL
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pruman91 said:
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BenFred: ESPN's Max Kellerman swings and misses on Albert Pujols takedown attempt

ESPN talking head Max Kellerman apologized for implying Albert Pujols' chase of 700 home runs could be fueled by foul play
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Ben Frederickson
Who said what?
That was my reaction Tuesday afternoon upon learning the Cardinals were irked by some garbage leaking out of ESPN.
The who was talking head Max Kellerman, who is pretty good on boxing and not so good on everything else.
The what was Kellerman insinuating on Monday’s episode of “This Just In” that Albert Pujols’ chase for 700 career home runs could be fueled by foul play.
Kellerman went down the all-time home run list, ripping Barry Bonds (762) for using performance-enhancing drugs while praising Henry Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) for playing clean.
Then he got to Pujols (697).

“It is amazing, how Pujols, who was in steady decline for years, suddenly, it’s like he discovered the fountain of youth!” said Kellerman sarcastically.
"I don’t know how he’s doing it," he continued. "Oh my God, the bat speed, everything, he’s killing the ball! Matter of fact, bartender, I’ll have whatever he’s having! I mean, this is unbelievable. He sure has turned back the clock. I just wonder if there was anything that could be pointed to. How does a player turn back the clock like this? I guess it’s willpower and practice. All these years between then and now, he hasn’t been practicing, apparently.”
Welcome to 2022, when the network once viewed as the go-to place for sports shells out staggering salaries for takes that border on Barstool plagiarism.

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Another example of why espn is losing viewership and has declined to a shell of what it once was.....
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Let's take a look at the stats. 18 homers this year, 17 last year, Hurt most of '20, 23 in '19, 19 in '18. I know he's doing in in less AB's this year, but he is not hitting against RHP all the time like when he was a staple in the Angels lineup.

So yeah, Max, he's clearly doping. Sure man, you can have some of what Albert is having: dedication to his craft. You seem to be lacking it.


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dgcrow

dgcrow
Kelso, WA
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pruman91 said:
Cardinals beat the brewers 4 -1 and increase their lead back to 8 games......

The bullpen only allowed 2 hits in 4 innings , with Helsley striking out the side in the 9th inning..........

Lars Nootbaar hit the longest home run at Busch III this year at 452 feet..............


THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!............................................
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Technically, it may not have been a "must win", but it sure seemed like it to me. Birds came through just fine.
 
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IlliniFaninHoosierLand

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1570201319826128905

All time record for starts by a battery. Hard to imagine anyone coming close to that again ever.

The next active battery with the most career starts together is Hendricks and Contreras.

Pujols, Nelson Cruz, Miguel Cabrera, Zack Greinke, Rich Hill, and Justin Verlander are the only other active major league players still playing when Yadi and Waino made their first start as a battery on April 6, 2007.
 
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jrichisamazing

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Still only 4.5 back of the Mets for that 2 seed. It will be tough to catch them considering we still have an 8 game road trip against the Dodgers, Padres, and Brewers. The Mets have to play @Milwaukee and @Atlanta so they have some tough series left as well.

The Mets are 15-15 in their last 30 games so they're kind of struggling down the stretch here, in typical Mets fashion. (Cards are 22-8)

It would be really nice to go 4-1 or maybe even sweep the Reds in this 5 game home series. Also need to get the bats going again. They've been a little sluggish lately.
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Tipsheet: Cardinals finish off Brewers, move closer to NL Central title

For a few days there, the Brewers were cutting into the Cardinals' division lead. But that late push came to an end Wednesday.
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Jeff Gordon

By chipping into the Cardinals’ division lead during the past week, the Milwaukee Brewers stirred flickering hopes of a late run for the National League Central crown.
They had staff ace Corbin Burnes on the mound Wednesday, matched up against Adam Wainwright – who had been struggling ahead of his record-setting 325th career start with Yadier Molina.
Had the Brewers won, they would have moved within six games of the Cardinals. That’s not exactly “in range,” but teams have blown bigger late-season margins than that.
But the Cardinals prevailed 4-1 on an historic night, pushing their lead back to eight games and reduced their magic number to 12. That was pretty much eliminated whatever chance the Brewers had to catch the Cardinals.

So the Brewers can put all of their focus on catching the San Diego Padres and Philadelphia Phillies now.
“We’re two games out of the wild card,” Brewers second baseman Kolten Wong said. “If you can sneak your way into the playoffs, anything can happen.”
Next up for the Brewers: A six-game homestand against the playoff-bound New York Yankees and Mets.
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Quick hits: Cardinals’ early power, late relief carry Wainwright and Molina to historic win

Wainwright throws five innings and bullpen handles the rest for 4-1 win, with Arenado and Nootbaar contributing home runs to regain eight-game lead.
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Derrick Goold


The start made history.
The finish made them a winner.
And one late milestone stroke made Wednesday all the more memorable.
Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina reset the major-league record for most starts as a tandem with the first pitch against the Milwaukee Brewers at Busch Stadium, their 325th together. What made them a winner was the work that followed. Staked to a lead by home runs from Nolan Arenado and Lars Nootbaar off Corbin Burnes, the reigning Cy Young Award winner, the Cardinals’ bullpen worked four scoreless innings to reward the battery with a 4-1 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 46,459.
The Cardinals’ final run of the evening, delivered in the bottom of the eighth, gave the evening additional gloss. Albert Pujols, in the lineup at designated hitter, doubled home the Cardinals’ fourth run of the evening for the 2,200th RBI of his career. He joined Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron as the only three players in history with that many runs batted in.

The win restored the Cardinals’ eight-game lead in the National League Central and with only two games remaining with the Brewers cleaved the magic number down to 12.
That countdown continues.
A count up that began a little more than five years ago reached what was once unsure — that two players, in their early 40s, would remain on the same team and together long enough to make 325 starts together. The number became a private quest for Wainwright and Molina, and a few people close to the catcher described this past week how sharing that major-league record with Wainwright was part of what drove Molina to return this season at age 40 and return from injury in the middle of this season.
 
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wpr

wpr
wpr
IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1570201319826128905

All time record for starts by a battery. Hard to imagine anyone coming close to that again ever.

The next active battery with the most career starts together is Hendricks and Contreras.

Pujols, Nelson Cruz, Miguel Cabrera, Zack Greinke, Rich Hill, and Justin Verlander are the only other active major league players still playing when Yadi and Waino made their first start as a battery on April 6, 2007.
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It's nice that both Yadi and Waino turned in solid performances last night on their historic day. I would have hated it if Adam had been roughed up for 6 runs in 2 innings and Yadi struck out 4 times while letting a couple of runners steal bases.
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
pruman91
wpr said:
It's nice that both Yadi and Waino turned in solid performances last night on their historic day. I would have hated it if Adam had been roughed up for 6 runs in 2 innings and Yadi struck out 4 times while letting a couple of runners steal bases.
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At the time of my first post last night about it looking like a long night , I had a feeling it might turn out like the bold print above....

I tend to think that post jinxed the brewers and Burnes so ole pru had a big hand in the win last night .......I really rea......etc....etc.....

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I'm listening to some fine Blue Oyster Cult right now and chillin on some 420......

Cardinals are winning ........The FB team is jellin.............Blues hockey is approaching ............MBB is also cumming soon...............Life is good .....................
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
pruman91
Looks like tonight is gonna be a long night like last night........senzel , for the reds , hit a moon shot in the second inning.......Now , we are in the top of the third and the bases are loaded for the reds , with now 1 out after a flyout to Nootbaar ......

hope I can jinx the reds like I did the brewers and we pull out the cum from behind win ......Now it's 2-0 with 2 outs and runners on first and third for the reds.......

trying my hoodoo voodoo .............................I really really am......................

whoo-hoo , reds try to steal second then get the runner from third home before the third out ......but , IT DIDN'T WORK !!!!!....Ole pru did it again.......

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thank you , thank you very much ladies and gentlemen...............
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Cardinals have 1 hit through 6 innings.......bad time for the bats to go cold.....it's been this way for the last 10 games seems like....

the brewers got buku hits in the 2 games and the reds have a bunch tonight also........
 
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IlliniFan85

IlliniFan85
Colorado Springs, CO
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Now 2 on for Goldie. Bottom 9. They have 3 runs, 7 hits, 5 walks. We have 1 run, 2 hits, and 3 walks.
 
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IlliniFan85

IlliniFan85
Colorado Springs, CO
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No gold from Goldie. Just late or under 1st pinch and then flies out on 3rd pitch. Nolan up now
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
pruman91
IlliniFan85 said:
What a Dick.erson. cards fall 3-2
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Too little too late for the Cardinals...........................

Goldie is in a RUT......looks lost at the plate.......TON jumps back from a slider that was down the middle and at the knees.......I thought Albert was gonna get tossed on his next to last at bat.......
yep , Aquino has a rocket launcher arm....

lead only down to 7.5 games as brewers had the day off........

I sure hope we have a big enough lead to withstand this funky at bat's stretch we are going through.......Last time we faced the reds , tonight's starting pitcher lost 2 games in 3 days to us and tonight he mowed us down big time.....

I played enough baseball growing up in little league , then Khoury league , then 6 years of American legion baseball to know we can turn it around quickly , but I still am anxious with the west coast trip looming after we finish up 4 more games in 3 days against these reds..............

LET'S GO CARDINALS....................................
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Quick hits: A last-gasp rally fizzles for Cardinals as meek offense bows to Reds

Cardinals got Pujols a plate appearance with the bases loaded in the ninth inning and a sacrifice fly from him, but one hit through eight is costly in 3-2 loss.
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Derrick Goold

An inability to do much around the plate all evening other than throw Reds out near it caught up with the Cardinals when the snooze button on their offense lifted in the ninth.
The Cardinals had collected two outs at home plate on superb defensive plays but only one hit through the first eight innings of Cincinnati’s visit. When the Cardinals stirred for two singles and a walk in the ninth inning to bring the crowd to its feet, the late-arriving offense could not muster enough to overtake the Reds in a 3-2 loss at Busch Stadium on Thursday. Spells of moribund offense against some of the worst teams in the standings have been an annoyance when it comes to the division race but are a recurring drag on the team’s momentum.

Brendan Donovan’s leadoff single in the ninth ended a streak of 15 consecutive batters without a hit, and the Cardinals got the ninth inning to Albert Pujols with the bases loaded and a chance to win with a single swing.
Sitting on career homer No. 697, Pujols sent a ball skyward and deep to right field, but not deep enough to clear the bases with history. It did make things interesting in the present. Pujols’ sacrifice fly — the 123rd of his career — scored Donovan and brought the tying run to the plate.
That was as far as the rally got.
Pinch-hitting Corey Dickerson chopped a grounder to third for the final out of the game to give Reds right-hander Alexis Diaz the wobbly but successful save, his seventh.
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Tipsheet: Mighty Dodgers face championship-or-bust challenge

The Dodgers are supposed to win it all this season. If they don't, many will regard them as failures this season.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are 98-44 this season. They lead the National League West by 21 games over the big-spending San Diego Padres.
They have overcome numerous pitching injuries. They appear to be moving toward fuller strength as the postseason nears.
If they can fulfill their destiny and win another World Championship, they will be remembered as one of the greatest teams of all time.
But if they fall short – as they did last season – then they will be judged a massive failure.
“It’s two-fold, if you make it all of the way, that’s what you’re supposed to do,” Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts told reporters after the Dodgers clinched still another division title. “And if you don’t, you’re a failure.

"It’s not fair, but it’s part of it. It is what it is.’’
This is the challenge Dodgers players gladly signed up for this season. Last season the surprising San Francisco Giants knocked them into the wild card game, which was a tense sudden-death game against the Cardinals.


TALKIN’ BASEBALL
Here is what folks have been writing about Our National Pastime:

Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com: “It isn't just that (Aaron) Judge is leading in lots of categories or has huge counting numbers. He's lapping the competition . . . no one else has 50 homers.
 
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wpr

wpr
wpr
pruman91 said:
Cardinals have 1 hit through 6 innings.......bad time for the bats to go cold.....it's been this way for the last 10 games seems like....

the brewers got buku hits in the 2 games and the reds have a bunch tonight also........
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It looks like their August mojo is gone.
 
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AdDoBe

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AdDoBe
wpr said:
It looks like their August mojo is gone.
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I'm not too concerned. Cardinals record in September so far is 8-5 (same as the Dodgers). They've lost 1 series in the last two months (@ Colorado). According to baseball-reference.com, Cardinals odds of making the playoffs is ">99.9%"
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
pruman91
Tip of the night ........

Cardinals batters ......have your eyes open when you swing and don't swing at balls outside the strike zone......

Geesh , a 32 year old rookie pitcher who used to be a shortstop and then a catcher just embarrassed Donovan , Edman and Goldschmidt...........3 K's.....
 
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dgcrow

dgcrow
Kelso, WA
dgcrow
pruman91 said:
Tip of the night ........

Cardinals batters ......have your eyes open when you swing and don't swing at balls outside the strike zone......

Geesh , a 32 year old rookie pitcher who used to be a shortstop and then a catcher just embarrassed Donovan , Edman and Goldschmidt...........3 K's.....
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That could be said of close to every one of today's MLB hitters.