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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1755529" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/home-brew-cardinals-go-flat-as-milwaukee-hops-to-early-lead-vs-wainwright-wins-5/article_c05fce1e-4c45-569b-a16e-413098e70018.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p>MILWAUKEE — Of all the places Adam Wainwright has gone with the Cardinals and all the places the right-hander has taken the Cardinals, even the ballpark where he’s so often been his best was a reminder of three keys to any pitcher’s success: location, location, location.</p><p>More than where he’s pitching, it’s where his pitches are that matters.</p><p>Spinning from a one-seam to a two-seam grip, Wainwright could not get a handle on his sinker and the pitch that is supposed to plunge down instead flattened out against Milwaukee. The Brewers tagged the veteran for four runs, three of them with two out, and pulled away for a 5-1 victory Thursday night in their home opener at American Family Field. A sellout crowd of 42,794 braved high winds to tailgate and saw former teammate Kolten Wong jump Wainwright’s second pitch for a triple. The hometown crew open up a four-run lead in the first three innings and uprooted Wainwright (1-1) from the mound before the end of the fifth inning.</p><p></p><p>“You get zeroes when you locate, when you mix and match, up and down, in and out, and today I was a very predictable height the whole time,” Wainwright said. “Even when I was on the corner sometimes, it was thigh-high. But I don’t live at the thigh. I don’t make any money at the thigh. I make mine at the knees. Not enough knee-balls, and a lot of thigh-balls.” During a career spent in the National League Central, Wainwright has more wins at Chicago’s Wrigley Field than any other foe’s ballpark, but his lowest ERA in the division and several of his finer outings have been at the Brewers’ screw-top ballpark. He brought a 2.89 ERA into his 20th start at the stadium formerly known as Miller Park, and in his previous appearance he got the win as the Cardinals’ gained propulsion for their historic winning streak. That start was the 300th together for Wainwright and Yadier Molina, and on Thursday, with their 306th, they moved into a tie with White Sox tandem Red Faber and Roy Schalk for the third-most all time in MLB history.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1755529, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/home-brew-cardinals-go-flat-as-milwaukee-hops-to-early-lead-vs-wainwright-wins-5/article_c05fce1e-4c45-569b-a16e-413098e70018.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] MILWAUKEE — Of all the places Adam Wainwright has gone with the Cardinals and all the places the right-hander has taken the Cardinals, even the ballpark where he’s so often been his best was a reminder of three keys to any pitcher’s success: location, location, location. More than where he’s pitching, it’s where his pitches are that matters. Spinning from a one-seam to a two-seam grip, Wainwright could not get a handle on his sinker and the pitch that is supposed to plunge down instead flattened out against Milwaukee. The Brewers tagged the veteran for four runs, three of them with two out, and pulled away for a 5-1 victory Thursday night in their home opener at American Family Field. A sellout crowd of 42,794 braved high winds to tailgate and saw former teammate Kolten Wong jump Wainwright’s second pitch for a triple. The hometown crew open up a four-run lead in the first three innings and uprooted Wainwright (1-1) from the mound before the end of the fifth inning. “You get zeroes when you locate, when you mix and match, up and down, in and out, and today I was a very predictable height the whole time,” Wainwright said. “Even when I was on the corner sometimes, it was thigh-high. But I don’t live at the thigh. I don’t make any money at the thigh. I make mine at the knees. Not enough knee-balls, and a lot of thigh-balls.” During a career spent in the National League Central, Wainwright has more wins at Chicago’s Wrigley Field than any other foe’s ballpark, but his lowest ERA in the division and several of his finer outings have been at the Brewers’ screw-top ballpark. He brought a 2.89 ERA into his 20th start at the stadium formerly known as Miller Park, and in his previous appearance he got the win as the Cardinals’ gained propulsion for their historic winning streak. That start was the 300th together for Wainwright and Yadier Molina, and on Thursday, with their 306th, they moved into a tie with White Sox tandem Red Faber and Roy Schalk for the third-most all time in MLB history. [/QUOTE]
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