St. Louis Cardinals 2022

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pruman91
Big Jack said:
Man u just know about everyone and everything... Are you really Mr Rodgers
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I must have missed the part about Mr. Rodgers dippin skoal .................................

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Is it lasagna flavored ?
 
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Unfazed by deficits after unlikely win, confident Cardinals aim to overtake Mets, Braves

It was difficult to tell who said it first and it might have been five or six different teammates at once, because that’s how innings usually start inside the Cardinals’
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It was difficult to tell who said it first and it might have been five or six different teammates at once, because that’s how innings usually start inside the Cardinals’ dugout.
Rookie Brendan Donovan heard it sometime after he grabbed his helmet and somewhere before he left the dugout to lead off the ninth inning Wednesday at Busch Stadium. Get on base. Just get on base. Grind out an at-bat. Anything can happen. The Cardinals had been quiet for eight innings, had played a lousy eighth inning, and trailed by four runs going into the ninth against Washington, the club with worst record in the majors. The dugout chatter remained the same.
Get on base. Just get on base. Grind out an at-bat.

Anything can happen.
And then it did.

Donovan singled on the third pitch of his at-bat.
“There’s a sense of hope,” third baseman Nolan Arenado said.
What followed Donovan’s leadoff single was Arenado’s double, a pivotal walk by Tyler O’Neill, and a reviving RBI single from Yadier Molina. The eighth batter of the inning, Tommy Edman, delivered a two-run, two-out double that he could not quite see over the outstretched glove of Washington’s left fielder. Spoiler: His teammates rushing toward him gave away the ending. The Cardinals scored five runs, three of them with two outs, to yank an unlikely 6-5 victory up from the dregs of the first eight innings. They became the first home team this season to win a game when trailing by four or more runs in the bottom of the ninth.
 
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Tipsheet: Scherzer heads back to IL as Mets try to hold off Braves

Max Scherzer hopes his latest injury is only minor. But he will miss at least two starts and that's problematic for the Mets, who have lost their edge in the
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Our Town’s Max Scherzer is 38 years old. He has pitched more than 2,600 regular season innings.
He has pitched through all manner of physical ailments while establishing himself as one of the toughest and most fierce competitors of his era.
This is the guy you want on the mound for a really big game. Unfortunately, he's only human.
Scherzer, who is 9-4 with a 2.26 ERA, missed seven weeks due to an oblique strain earlier this season. He is back on the injured list with more general soreness on his left side.
“I don't have one specific spot that you can point to where that hurts,” Scherzer told reporters. “It's just general fatigue on the whole left side.”

That's what happens as you get older. This time Scherzer hopes to miss only two starts.
“That's the first and foremost thing -- this is not a significant injury,” Scherzer said. “This is more that I'm going to miss one start -- we knew that -- and then once the ball's out of my court, the team's gotta do what they gotta do for roster moves.”
These injuries remind us of the inherent risk a team teaks by throwing large money at a high-mileage pitcher. That’s the sort of risk that Bill DeWitt Jr. has declined to take while owning the Cardinals.

TALKIN’ BASEBALL
Here is what folks are writing about Our National Pastime:......................................................
 
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pruman91
Cardinals lead the nationals 3-1 after 2...........................

of course , everyone should know about Waino and Yadi tying the record for most games by a battery..........Yadi enhanced the day by hitting a 2 run homer into Big Mac land ..............
Also , Alec Burleson walked in his Major League debut..........

Let's go Cardinals.................
 
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Going into the bottom of the 4th , the nationals have the lead 4-3.......A bit of irony in the top of the 4th on the ball hit that gave the nationals the lead.....
The ball was hit by the nationals left fielder Call who was the one who misplaced Tommy Edman's walk off hit last night .......Corey Dickerson misplayed the fly ball by Call and looked awful on his route to catch the ball......
 
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pruman91 said:
Going into the bottom of the 4th , the nationals have the lead 4-3.......A bit of irony in the top of the 4th on the ball hit that gave the nationals the lead.....
The ball was hit by the nationals left fielder Call who was the one who misplaced Tommy Edman's walk off hit last night .......Corey Dickerson misplayed the fly ball by Call and looked awful on his route to catch the ball......
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Did he ever find where he put it? :)
 
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pruman91
After 4 , the Cardinals and nationals are tied 4 - 4........................................

Fun facts :

Yadi with 2 home runs today so far..............
DeLuzio gets his first MLB hit........................
Donovan gets a double ...................He's playing somewhere for me everyday...............

Not So Fun facts :

Goldie pop's up with the bases loaded and only 1 out.................Goldie has cooled off as far as batting.....seems a tad slow with the bat through the zone....

Let's go Cardinals.........................
 
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illini0440 said:
Did he ever find where he put it? :)
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Nope , it was still rollin around in the left field corner right up till game time today.......Rollin rollin rollin -keep those Cardinals rollin-keep them Cardinals rollin - Raw-hide.......................all the way to another WS title.............
 
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illini0440 said:
Did he ever find where he put it? :)
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In my mind I typed misplayed , but in reality ( which I'm seldom in ) I typed misplaced ..........go figure ................

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Well , this game today has went to he** in a handbasket PDQ........going into the bottom of the 7th , the nationals lead 7-4............

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From last night's ecstasy to today's agony , the Cardinals lose 11-4 to the nationals........18 hits by the opposition is a high bar to climb and a lot of them were soft contact or dying quails in between the infielders and outfielders......Just a tough day all around.........

Oli was a little testy in the post game presser.............Yadi took a question in the clubhouse and answered it and the same reporter asked another question along the same theme as the first one and Yadi just turned to the opposite side of the crowd and said next question............Oh well , Oli said it best when he answered a question about playoff strategy and said we haven't won anything yet and we still have a month to go in the season.......

The pressure the FO , manager , coaches and players face is mind boggling and never let's up till the season is over ........I will be cheering them on tomorrow evening as they start a series @ Pittsburgh starting at 5:35 pm CDT.........

Let's Go Cardinals............................
 
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Sour loss to Nats shows what can lift Cardinals as Yadier Molina 'smells' September rush

Cardinals catcher, making history with Adam Wainwright and a 324th start together, hits two home runs, tries to hoist club before it loses, 11-6.
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With his battery mate away in Puerto Rico, recovering from a knee injury and working to regain his game, Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright remained Yadier Molina’s ever enthusiastic fan and, if necessary, lead cheerleader. Wainwright said often publicly what he told Molina almost daily in their conversations.
Over the phone or via text message, Wainwright told Molina the impact he could make on the team, the power of his presence and the lift he’d give a playoff push, not to mention the lift a playoff push would give him.
Lifts like Molina’s two home runs Thursday to double his season total.
“I told you it was coming,” Wainwright said that evening. “Down the stretch, we knew he was going to be here. He’s a big-time player. Prime-time players show up in prime time.”

The stars aligned for the Cardinals — at 60 feet, 6 inches — on Thursday for Wainwright and Molina to tie a major-league record for most starts as battery mates, but not much else did for the club. Wainwright and Molina made their 324th start together to match the longtime big-league record set by Detroit’s Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan 45 years ago. Trends in the game would radically have to change for another tandem to even challenge Yadi and Waino.
Despite Molina’s efforts behind and at the plate Thursday, the Cardinals could not conjure a performance to meet the moment, slipping 11-6 to the Washington Nationals and splitting a four-game series at Busch Stadium with the team that has the worst record in the National League.
The loss did little to the Cardinals’ place atop the NL Central, but it did a lot to reinforce and illustrate who they must count on as the temperatures cool and the heat of September intensifies.
Seasoned veterans.
 
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Cardinals notebook: Prescribed rest for achy thumb, Dylan Carlson has plan for awry swing

A sprain revealed in his left thumb was the cause of "nagging" pain that led to off-balance, sometimes one-handed swings and may have contributed to slump.
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All the work Dylan Carlson has been doing in the batting cage to correct his swing may have revealed how a lingering injury first caused his swing to drift.
About a month ago, Carlson felt his left thumb pinch awkwardly during a swing, and he continued to play through what he described as “nagging” but not imposing soreness. Any movement that involved his thumb ached in some way, whether he was throwing a baseball or trying to maintain his top hand’s grip on a left-handed swing.
“That (was) causing some one-handed swings, some off balance, just some things that don’t make me feel like myself,” said Carlson, who felt the soreness intensify as he hit the batting cage for drills to swing out of his funk. “It’s something that has been lingering, so they felt like it could be causing me to compensate and do things that maybe I wouldn’t.”

A scan taken Wednesday morning of the hand revealed damage to the ligament nearest the flesh web that connects the thumb to the hand.
Carlson was prescribed rest and placed on the 10-day injured list. He’ll get as much as a week without swinging a bat, and on Thursday morning, while wearing a soft brace on the left hand, he said he’ll receive treatment for inflammation.
At the time of the injury, a solid stretch of games had just put Carlson at leadoff hitter as the team’s everyday center fielder. In the weeks that followed, his production against right-handed pitching diminished, and he became a platoon player as Lars Nootbaar and rookie Brendan Donovan surged. With reduced starts, Carlson had increased drills in the batting cage as he and coaches tried to get his swing on track. He’s hit .207 with a .307 on-base percentage and more strikeouts (21) than hits (18) since July 31.
 
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That was , without any doubts in my mind , Knizner"s best caught stealing throw I have ever witnessed him doing.....And I don't miss many games at all since he's been up with the Cardinals..........very impressive..........
 
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Donovan is a player.......Gritty , heady , give it all you got type of player............He's in my lineup every game somewhere.......JMHO
 
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pruman91
Cardinals trail 4-1 after 6........

I would feel a lot better if the Cardinals would perk up their bats ASAP............................I really really would.................
 
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Cardinals lose to the pirates 8-2......................!@#$%^&*()....................lost 3 of last 5 games now to the nationals and pirates , 2 non playoff teams.....

The offense is picking a bad time to go into hibernation......The brewers are losing 5-2 at home going into the bottom of the 6th to the reds............

Hopefully the brewers lose their game and the Cardinals lead in the division stays at 8 games...........................

LET'S GO CARDINALS....................
 
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Cardinals' magic number cut to 16 but it was nothing they did in another loss to weak team

Playing Washington and Pittsburgh, the two worst teams in the National League, the Cardinals are only 2-3 in the past few days.
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PITTSBURGH — Nolan Arenado never had seen the likes of the double play the Cardinals turned Friday night to stay alive in a game in which they shouldn’t have been alive. And he saw some things he wishes he wouldn’t see again for a while as the Cardinals, drifting lately, dropped their third game in the past five while playing the two worst teams in the National League.
Friday’s pratfall was an 8-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
“This environment wasn’t the Braves’ environment,” Arenado said referencing an exciting three-game series with Atlanta in which the Cardinals won two games two weekends ago in St. Louis.
“But that doesn’t matter,” Arenado said. “Those are major leaguers over there who had good at-bats. Obviously, they put up eight runs and 15 hits, and they’re more than capable of beating us like they did today.

“So we’ve got come with energy tomorrow — and find a way to win.”
Trailing 4-2 in the seventh inning, the Cardinals made two bad throws on the same play and wound up turning a double play only to have Jake Woodford give up four runs in the eighth to enable the Pirates to pull away.

With the Milwaukee Brewers being drilled by Cincinnati, the Cardinals’ magic number for clinching the National League Central Division dropped to 16 anyway.

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Thought this quote of Marmol was great sarcasm..............................

Of Knizner’s throw that hit Reynolds, Marmol said dryly, “With all these rules changes — it’s hard to keep up with them — I think that ‘Kiz’ thought pegging the runner was recording an out. Hit them in the back, and that’s good.”
 
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Quick hits: Cardinals stumble again before lesser foe, falling to Pirates 8-2

Mikolas labors through five innings. Cardinals 1 for 9 with men in scoring position.
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Rick Hummel


PITTSBURGH — The Cardinals, who had been feasting on a softer part of their schedule, suddenly have found some prickly tendencies in their recent foes.
After being fortunate to win two of four games at home against the Washington Nationals, who have the worst record in the National League, the Cardinals encountered the next-worst club, the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night at PNC Park. And for the first time since July 24-26, the Cardinals lost for a second successive game, falling to the Pirates 8-2.
The main story line was that the Cardinals had just one hit (which didn’t score a run) in nine at-bats with runners in scoring position. A subordinate plot is that Miles Mikolas, who was brilliant in shutting out Chicago for eight innings in his previous start, reverted more to the form he has shown since the All-Star break.

On one hand, Mikolas struck out eight, his second-highest total of the season, but that took pitches. He threw 100 of them in five innings, and his record evened at 11-11 as he passed the 180-inning mark.
Still, the Cardinals trailed just 4-2 until the eighth, when Pittsburgh rocked right-hander Jake Woodford for four runs, two scoring on Michael Chavis’ triple.
The Cardinals staff has offered up 64 hits in the past five games.
Cardinals score, excitement heightens but ...Paul Goldschmidt became the first Cardinal to score 100 runs in successive seasons when he doubled in the sixth, moved up on a single by Nolan Arenado and came home on a force-out grounder by Corey Dickerson. That made it 4-1 and Goldschmidt was the first Cardinal to achieve 100-100 since Albert Pujols did it from 2008-11 and, before that, from 2001-06.
 
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