St. Louis Cardinals 2022

pruman91 said:

Former Cardinal Jim Edmonds married for fourth time on Sunday

Edmonds and realtor Kortnie O'Connor exchanged vows at a destination wedding in front of 32 guests at a 19th-century villa in Lake Como, Italy.

www.stltoday.com

Joe Holleman
Former Cardinal player, (and now nonstop announcer) Jim Edmonds stepped up to the “I-promise-thee” plate and got married on Sunday.

Edmonds and Realtor Kortnie O’Connor exchanged vows at a destination wedding in front of 32 guests at a 19th-century villa in Lake Como, Italy, according to People.
The couple announced their relationship in 2020 and were engaged in July 2021.

“The best part of the wedding is I now get to spend the rest of my life with Kortnie,” People quotes Edmonds as saying. “For the first time in my life, I finally understand true happiness.”

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Please read the comments section .................................I'm laughing so hard at most of comments about Jimmy ball game.........

Almost all of the comments are super critical of his announcing and a lot of his personal issues....................Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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All it took was a 3some.....

Dan Caesar
It's the end of the line for Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina and maybe Adam Wainwright. But there's another fellow who is closely associated with the Cardinals — and for a period much longer than any of those players even has been alive — who this weekend also will be on the job at a Cards home regular-season series for the final time.
Rick Hummel, who is in his 50th season writing about the team and his 51st year at the Post-Dispatch, plans to step down from full-time duties at the paper in the offseason. That will be not long before he turns 77 in February.
That's when spring training begins, and while Hummel might go there as an occasional contributor to the P-D, he will be out of the regular mix for the first time since before he had his initial Cardinals assignment in 1973. Five years later, he took over the beat full time.

He remained on it through the 2001 season before becoming the paper's national baseball writer — not by his choice. But he later returned to a role that focuses on the Cardinals, though as the backup to Joe Strauss and now Derrick Goold.
His current position calls for him to often do stories ancillary to game coverage, but he is the "lead ballwriter" (writing the game stories) for some contests and will be in that role this weekend when the Pirates play at Busch. It will be his final time in that slot, as Goold will cover the team's season-ending trip to Pittsburgh next week. Goold also will have the "gamer" writing duties during the postseason, during which Hummel will cover other angles.
Will it seem strange on Sunday to walk into the Busch Stadium pressbox — which is named for him and one of his mentors, former Post-Dispatch baseball writer and sports editor Bob Broeg — for the last time to handle the game-writing duties?

"I don’t think it will," said Hummel, who has covered 42 All-Star Games and 35 World Series and was inducted into the writers portion of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. "It’s more likely to hit when I'm not covering the first game next year. There probably won’t be any difference until you get to next season."

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I always enjoyed reading Hummel and Bob Broeg ..........................They were required reading before the advent of the internet and instantaneous info.....

I just got in on the Cardinals honoring Albert Pujols for his many achievements and presented him with a Gold baseball bat with 700 inscribed ......

I'm so glad he came back home to finish his career and hope another Cardinals WS win is the end result ...................

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

Stopping over for the night in beautiful Paducah, Ky before heading to Rend Lake tomorrow. I can feel the aura of Pruman somewhere nearby! I'll send up the Bat(Walken)Signal!

Boomauer said:

Stopping over for the night in beautiful Paducah, Ky before heading to Rend Lake tomorrow. I can feel the aura of Pruman somewhere nearby! I'll send up the Bat(Walken)Signal!

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lol..................My first year of college was at Mt. Vernon Community College , the precursor to Rend Lake College.....I majored in Campus Cue 101.....

#701 off someone who was a teammate of his before the trade deadline:

Cardinals beat the pirates 2-1..........

Flaherty with 6 strong innings.........

Bullpen with 3 scoreless innings.......................

Albert hits # 701.............................

Nootbaar with a fantastic catch fighting off Donovan before both crash into the screen netting down the right field line.............

Goldie with an amazing catch on a foul pop up falling on top of the tarp down the right field line to end the game......................


THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rick Hummel

While Jack Flaherty had an impressive audition Friday night not only for a postseason roster spot but a chance to be in the rotation in next weekend’s first round, Albert Pujols took another step toward the National Baseball Hall of Fame, not that his route wasn’t already mapped out.
The St. Louis fans who were disappointed not to see Pujols’ 700th career home run — few saw it on Apple TV either — received a giant consolation prize.
On a night when he was honored for hitting No. 700 last week in Los Angeles, Pujols ripped a 1-2 Johan Oviedo slider into Big Mac Land to open the fourth inning, meaning, of course, that all fans in that section will get a free Big Mac sandwich.

The homer was Pujols’ 501st of his career against a right-hander and off a record 456th different pitcher. As often has been the case lately, a Pujols homer either put his team ahead or, in this instance, tied the game at 1-1 and helped lift Flaherty to a 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Flaherty worked six innings, tying his season high, and allowed one run while striking out six and throwing 95 pitches.
It was Pujols’ 22nd homer of the season and ninth against a right-hander. Since Aug 14., Pujols has 14 homers, second in the majors to Aaron Judge, who has hit 15 of his 61 since then. Pujols’ .529 slugging percentage is his highest since 2011, the last previous season he played with the Cardinals. And (big shock), he received a standing ovation from the full house of 47,032 at Busch Stadium.

Seven of Pujols’ past nine homers either have put the Cardinals ahead or tied the game.

Rick Hummel
Tyler O’Neill, out two weeks with a left hamstring strain, is racing the clock, in a sense, even when he isn’t running at full speed.
The target for the Cardinals outfielder is to be fit enough to qualify for the roster for a playoff round which will begin here next Friday when the division champion Cardinals entertain a wild-card team in the start of a best-of-three series.
O’Neill, who is on the injured list, began straight-line running on Wednesday and “ramped up the intensity” on Friday.
“We’re still going to build that process from there,” said O’Neill. “I’m going to do my best to get ready for the postseason. That’s the most important thing on the table right now.

“Keep my nose down. Keep my head down. And be ready for that,” the 27-year-old O’Neill said.
This weekend, O’Neill will not be playing. Whether he plays next week in three games at Pittsburgh is doubtful, but manager Oliver Marmol said O’Neill doesn’t necessarily have to be in a game in order to be active next weekend. He said he wouldn’t play O’Neill in the field in the playoffs if he hadn’t played out there before then. But Marmol said that didn’t preclude O’Neill from being an offensive part of a postseason configuration.
O’Neill is hopeful that he can do more agility running in the next couple of days, including running the bases, which would be one of the last steps.

When the Cardinals clinched the National League Central Division title on Tuesday, O’Neill was watching on television — and missing it. But he said, “I would rather the boys clinch it sooner than later.”

Daniel Guerrero
The 2022 minor-league season couldn’t have ended in any other way for Cardinals outfield prospect Moises Gomez.
During Memphis’ 8-4 season finale win against Nashville, Gomez belted his 39th home run of the year solidifying him as minor-league baseball’s home run leader in 2022 and furthering his lead as the Cardinals single-season leader in homers by a minor-leaguer.
Along with Gomez’s final homer to his breakout campaign, these are some of the notable performances by Cardinals minor-leaguers:

Hits
Outfielder Moises Gomez, Class AAA Memphis: Gomez ends his season with career-highs in RBIs (94), slugging percentage (.624), and OPS (.995) across 120 games that split time evenly with Memphis and Class AA Springfield, where he began the season. The 23-year-old’s .294 average was his highest since he hit .317 in 47 games as a Rays minor-league in the now-defunct Venezuelan Summer League in 2015l.

Gonna miss The Commish's writing

Albert a 2 run single and Dickerson with the Grand Salami for a 6 run first. Nice start.

There goes the thought that at least he is good defensively at least.

Should not have been ruled a hit.

yep , PDJ with that stellar defense..................................Oh wait , now it's can't hit AND can't field ..........................He watches the playoffs from the dugout or at home , not on the roster,,,,,,,,,,,,,,JMHO..............................

I agree with IlliniFan85.......that's an error all the way..........

great move by Oli to bring in Matz with an 8 run lead , and see what Matz can do as a late innings left handed reliever ........I like what i saw in the top of the 7th from Matz.......if he pans out as a reliever i think that seals the deal on Cabrera NOT being on the post season roster....................

Oli has done a great job as a rookie manager and should get some votes for Manager of the Year..................jmho..........

Cardinals win over the pirates 13-3................................Buoyed by a 6 run bottom of the 1st , the Cardinals steadily added to that total and with Montgomery pitching a strong 6 innings , it was a great way to end the day after the Illini ripped out the badgers heart in a 34-10 road victory.....

I'm bushed from a long day of cheering on my favorite teams today so......................................


THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rick Hummel

The Cardinals reached their goal of playing October baseball Saturday night, even though the schedule and not their first-place standing was the reason why. But there was little to find objectionable about the Cardinals’ 13-3 shellacking of the Pittsburgh Pirates as the local nine draws closer to its first postseason game here next Friday, when October baseball really begins.
The Cardinals scored 10 runs in the first two innings as they beat the Pirates for the 12th time in 15 meetings this season, with four remaining. They have won the season series from the Pirates for the past nine seasons and 20 of the past 23 dating to 2000.
Left-hander Jordan Montgomery, who hadn’t made it through the sixth in his three most recent starts, pitched an efficient six innings, striking out five and allowing two runs and four hits. He threw 59 strikes and only 28 called balls out of 87 pitches.
Corey Dickerson punctuated a six-run first with his second career grand slam. A Busch Stadium sellout crowd of 46,365 observed on Yadier Molina Bobblehead Night.

Pujols closes on Babe; Dickerson is Ruthian​

When the Cardinals strafed Pittsburgh rookie Luis Ortiz for the six runs in the first inning — Ortiz recorded one out — Albert Pujols moved within three of Babe Ruth on the all-time runs batted in chart with a two-run single with the bases loaded.
Pujols’ total stands at 2,211, with Henry Aaron the leader at 2,297.
When the bases became loaded again, Dickerson, who recently went through a nothing-for-26 skid, unloaded them with a Ruthian, 433-foot blast to right center for his second homer (out of six) this year at Busch.
This was the end for Ortiz, who had allowed just two earned runs total in his first three big-league starts.

Rick Hummel
To hear some tell it, Adam Wainwright will be pitching for his playoff supper on Sunday when he makes his final regular-season start of this season and final regular-season start ever with retiring catcher Yadier Molina, with whom he holds the all-time record at 327.
“I’m hearing I shouldn’t even start in the playoffs,” said Wainwright Saturday afternoon. “I’ll just have to go out and change people’s minds.”
The 41-year-old Wainwright’s last victory was on Sept. 3 when he allowed four runs in five innings. Since then, he has made four starts, giving up 29 hits and 14 runs in 19 innings, including a three-inning outing this past Sunday as Wainwright was laboring through a “dead arm” phase.
“I don’t think three (actually four) games should have that much bearing on my playoff acumen — or resume,” said Wainwright.

Wainwright is 4-5 in postseason play but his earned run average is 2.82. “They haven’t scored many runs for me,” said Wainwright.
And Wainwright has drawn the likes of Madison Bumgarner, Jon Lester, Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer in October matchups.
Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said he wasn’t tying much to Sunday’s outing by Wainwright, as to where the right-hander fits in next weekend in postseason play.
“I don’t think it’s vitally important,” said Marmol. “Is it important? Yes. But I don’t think it’s as ‘life or death’ as a lot of people believe it to be.
“It’s not the decision-maker,” Marmol said. “I will look at a much larger body of work and make a decision based off of that.”

Cardinals lead the pirates 3-0 after 1......

Albert Pujols with a 2 RBI double and Yadi Molina with a sacrifice fly............

GO CARDINALS.........................

I liked reading about the old days when StL would score a run, someone in the dugout would look at Gibby and tell him, "There's your run. Go get us the win." Waino has 3 in a strikeout era so he has no excuses.

wpr said:

I liked reading about the old days when StL would score a run, someone in the dugout would look at Gibby and tell him, "There's your run. Go get us the win." Waino has 3 in a strikeout era so he has no excuses.

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It didn't last very long , did it ??

Gamel with a 3 run homer to tie the game going into the bottom of the second.....

Waino pitching himself OUT of the playoff rotation..............JMHO


BTW , Gibby has MORE complete games than wins ........

pruman91 said:

It didn't last very long , did it ??

Gamel with a 3 run homer to tie the game going into the bottom of the second.....

Waino pitching himself OUT of the playoff rotation..............JMHO


BTW , Gibby has MORE complete games than wins ........

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I had the privilege of watching Gibby pitch a complete game in St. Louis. Beat the Cubs. Hit a home run as well. What an athlete.