St. Louis Cardinals 2022
I disagree. I prefer Edmonds on color commentary more as he's not as willing to hold his opinion back. Thompson always has sort of given me that "aw, shucks" Mayberry vibe.
Ryllini
- Lombard
I like them both, but I think I prefer Jimmy.
I do not like either one, but Edmonds is much better than Thompson.
It's interesting. I rarely hear anything announcers say. I guess I tune them out. I know they are talking but I don't know what they are talking about. Back in the 90's (I think it was the 90's.) NBC decided to not have announcers in the booth for the final NFL game between the Jets and another terrible AFC team. I was traveling so I turned the game on while I got ready and the silence was kind of unnerving. Just background crowd noise.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Matz was great today......Hope today's performance is what we should expect for the season.......he had great control and was spotting his fastball intelligently...
Nailbiter game but the good guys won and coupled with the Blues exciting win has made today a great day for Cardinals and Blues fans.....
Nailbiter game but the good guys won and coupled with the Blues exciting win has made today a great day for Cardinals and Blues fans.....
Ryllini
- Lombard
With a top flight number one who can just over power hitters, our pitchers walk a razor thin line as far as location. You saw it with Waino the other day, pitches were a little elevated and flat and he got pounded. I’ll be taking some prop bets on him next time out.
It was Dolphins-Jets and was even earlier than you remembered. December 20, 1980: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcerless_game
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Strong start, clutch finish: Bullpen holds tight for Matz's first Cardinals win, 2-1 vs. Brewers
Birthday boy Nolan Arenado scores winning run and turns game-ending double play to reward lefty Matz for 5 2/3 scoreless innings.
Derrick Goold
MILWAUKEE — What started with Steven Matz zeroing in on his first chance to make a better second impression with his new club became the first true stress test for how the Cardinals intend to end the closest of games.
The Cardinals’ bullpen inherited a one-run game in the sixth inning Saturday, received a vital boost from a second run in the eighth, and shepherded the game through the final 3 1/3 innings. Right-hander Giovanny Gallegos, the Cardinals’ closer who could appear in any inning needed, completed a four-out save — two of which came on his final pitch — and secured a 2-1 victory against Milwaukee at American Family Field.
Paul DeJong’s 100th double of his career produced the game’s lone run in its first seven innings before the division rivals traded runs in the eighth inning. Corey Dickerson’s two-out RBI single scored Nolan Arenado for the eventual game-winner on Arenado’s 31st birthday. With the tying run on base in the ninth, Gallegos got a groundball to second base and because the Cardinals’ were shifted, birthday boy Arenado pivoted the game-ending double play at second. With little margin for error the relievers cinched Matz’s first win as a Cardinal by getting 10 outs from the 11 batters they faced.
They beat the Brewers at their own game.
“I think we have the best bullpen,” manager Oliver Marmol said after his team improved to 5-2. “That’s extremely valuable. When I think of the way we used them, on any given night you can flip that on its head and I’d be totally fine with it. It’s just having the ability to trust any of those guys in any situation is a nice thing to have.”
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Flipping the switch: Edman's spring stats hid a swing change that's off to a powerful start
Cardinals urged Edman to adjust his left-handed swing to change opponent's approach. 'Can you scare guys out of here?' they asked. Home runs have answered.
Derrick Goold
MILWAUKEE — Deep into spring training as Tommy Edman’s batting average hovered near the same number, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said he had “zero concerns” about his returning leadoff hitter. Marmol drew that comfort from all he could see in the batting cages, on the back fields, and from those metrics — details hidden from the view of a Grapefruit League box score.
The early returns on Edman’s behind-the-scenes work are out of sight.
With a two-run home run Friday night, the Cardinals’ switch-hitting infielder homered on consecutive days for the first time in his career. Both home runs against Milwaukee have come from the left side of the plate. That was the area of focus for Edman all spring because of how right-handed opponents pitched against him and tied up his swing.
“When we think of Eddy with power, it’s the homer,” Marmol said. “Do we enjoy the homer? Absolutely. But it’s him being able to get the ball off the ground on the pull side. That could be a line drive to right. It could be a gapper to right-center. It’s his ability to have some authority there so that pitchers don’t feel comfortable coming in the way they have in the past.”
Marmol added Saturday: “When you have a player with a high aptitude like Tommy you’re a little more patient with that process of allowing him to transfer what he’s working on into a game.”
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Lots of good info later in the article
thanks. I almost said the 80's but I didn't recall it being THAT early. That was before I got married. That explains why I don't remember watching it (10-15 minutes only) with my wife. It was so trivial, I didn't think it merited its own Wiki page.
You can have a wiki page for almost anything nowadays. I can see how a game like this would have one though.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Albert hits a 3 run homer in the top of the 3rd to tie the game at 3-3.............It's # 681 of his career.............
this is more than a feel good story............Albert still has some thunder in his bat ........I feel good.........I knew that I would ....I really really do.........
this is more than a feel good story............Albert still has some thunder in his bat ........I feel good.........I knew that I would ....I really really do.........
Ryllini
- Lombard
Alberts arms and legs were pumping but his body was saying "whoa nellie"!
Ryllini
- Lombard
I'm so happy Albert is back and so far it is paying off against the lefties. I can wait to see him live again next week. Hopefully the Mets and DBacks throw some lefties. I'm sad I'll miss Waino, looks like he will start on Friday, they day I head back to Chicagoland.
Seeing Pujols score from first on this play may be new favorite thing ever:
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Catch and release: Dazzling defense early sends Wainwright, Cardinals to 5-1 win vs. Marlins
Arenado and Goldschmidt stretch to get veteran out of first inning. Wainwright and Molina, in their 307th start together, move within a win of MLB record.
Derrick Goold
MIAMI — The cleats Paul Goldschmidt wears are Nike size 14, and there might be a little extra wiggle room in there for moments like Tuesday when every added inch helps change a game.
In the first inning at loanDepot Park, Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright walked two of the first four Marlins he faced and then left a curveball over the plate that Avisail Garcia rocketed down the third-base line. Nolan Arenado went to his right, gloved the grounder, bobbled the transfer momentarily, and threw from foul territory toward Goldschmidt at first. Arenado “ran two or three miles on that ball,” Wainwright said. And Goldschmidt had only a foot to spare on the catch.
The Cardinals’ first baseman steadied himself with his right hand as he dove to scoop Arenado’s throw, all while keeping the tip of his cleat against the bag. Goldschmidt said with two on and two out he “didn’t want to say we were on our heels.” But he got the out by a toe.
It’s not a stretch to claim that play put the win within reach.
“It’s a game-changer right there,” catcher Yadier Molina said. “That ball goes through, and it’s a different ballgame.”
From there, the Cardinals struck immediately for two runs and Wainwright wasn’t threatened again until he had a five-run lead on the way to a 5-1 victory against Miami. Albert Pujols doubled, singled, and scored from first on Tommy Edman’s triple to push the Cardinals out to a 4-0 lead by the end of the third inning. Goldschmidt added two hits to his big stretch, and the Cardinals chocked the box score with three doubles, two stolen bases, and their 13th win in their past 16 games against the Marlins.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Shark Nado: Cardinals sink Marlins, 2-0, when Arenado punctures pitching duel with ninth-inning homer
After striking out in his first three at-bats, all against Miami ace Alcantara, Arenado delivers fifth homer run of season to claim series win.
MIAMI — The hit he’d been waiting years to have in Miami had just escaped the reach of a Marlins outfielder and gone over the wall for the game’s lone runs Wednesday when Nolan Arenado, rounding first base, looked over his shoulder to spot his extended family.
He pointed to them, pointed to his heart, and would do so again as he rounded third and trotted across the plate.
As often as he’s in town, they so rarely see him come home.
“Finally gave them something to enjoy,” Arenado said, grinning.
Arenado had not hit a homer at the ballpark closest to his Miami-area family in nearly five years, so what was another eight innings to wait? The Cardinals’ third baseman struck out three times in his first three at-bats, all of them against Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara, and could have surrendered to just another one of those nights in Miami before connecting for a hit like none other Wednesday night.
Arenado’s two-run homer in the ninth inning pierced a scoreless tie and carried the Cardinals to a 2-0 victory against the Marlins at loanDepot Park. The home run was his fifth of the season and first in Miami in 14 games, dating to August 2017.
Two of Arenado’s three strikeouts came on Alcantara fastballs, but the moment he faced someone else Arenado turned on a 98.2 mph pitch from Anthony Bender and put it in the nightclub beyond left field for his first hit of the series. About 20 members of Arenado's family, including an uncle and cousins, rose from their seats behind the Cardinals' dugout.
NEIlliniFan
- No longer in New England
Seeing Alcantara in any uniform other than the Cardinals still annoys me
He's a good player. Cardinal fans complain when the front office doesn't grab the big named players. They went out and got Ozuna. It simply didn't work out. He was considered a quality OF and you have to give quality to get quality in return.