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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1767868" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-shrinking-offense-cannot-catch-giants-early-bullpen-comes-apart-late-in-8-2-loss/article_66718337-bebf-5b83-adc8-2a2fb76dd27d.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p>The Cardinals must cling to a notion they’re as good at predicting the eventual arrival of the lineup they promise as they have been at forecasting the starter Jordan Hicks could become.</p><p>With Hicks’ career-long appearance as a starter and assertive possibility for the rotation as a subplot Friday, the narrative thread about the offense continued, frayed as it continues to be. The Cardinals’ stalled too long to gain ground on the Giants before the game came unraveled spectacularly in the eighth inning. The Giants drubbed lefty reliever T. J. McFarland for three RBI base hits, including a two-run homer, to turn a two-run lead into an 8-2 rout. Not that the Cardinals offense showed much gumption to bridge that two-run gulch.</p><p></p><p>For the 16th time in 32 games, the Cardinals scored three or fewer runs. They’ve lost 11 of their 13 games when they’ve failed to get that fourth run, and they’ve lost five of their past season games. Only once in those five losses have they scored more than three.</p><p>“I’m still confident our offense is going to be a good offense,” manager Oliver Marmol said early Friday afternoon. “Right now, it’s not that. … Once it starts to click, I do think we have depth. Right now, it doesn’t seem like there’s enough there to have a good offense.”</p><p>So thin has the offense been that the Cardinals took the first lead of Friday’s game without needing a hit.</p><p></p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>missed catches by outfielders and an anemic offense has made the Cardinals , to me , not an inspiring team to watch right now............I still don't feel 100 % yet from my stomach bug and watching this team stumble along is just about as painful as the bug is.................................JMHO...........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1767868, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-shrinking-offense-cannot-catch-giants-early-bullpen-comes-apart-late-in-8-2-loss/article_66718337-bebf-5b83-adc8-2a2fb76dd27d.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] The Cardinals must cling to a notion they’re as good at predicting the eventual arrival of the lineup they promise as they have been at forecasting the starter Jordan Hicks could become. With Hicks’ career-long appearance as a starter and assertive possibility for the rotation as a subplot Friday, the narrative thread about the offense continued, frayed as it continues to be. The Cardinals’ stalled too long to gain ground on the Giants before the game came unraveled spectacularly in the eighth inning. The Giants drubbed lefty reliever T. J. McFarland for three RBI base hits, including a two-run homer, to turn a two-run lead into an 8-2 rout. Not that the Cardinals offense showed much gumption to bridge that two-run gulch. For the 16th time in 32 games, the Cardinals scored three or fewer runs. They’ve lost 11 of their 13 games when they’ve failed to get that fourth run, and they’ve lost five of their past season games. Only once in those five losses have they scored more than three. “I’m still confident our offense is going to be a good offense,” manager Oliver Marmol said early Friday afternoon. “Right now, it’s not that. … Once it starts to click, I do think we have depth. Right now, it doesn’t seem like there’s enough there to have a good offense.” So thin has the offense been that the Cardinals took the first lead of Friday’s game without needing a hit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ missed catches by outfielders and an anemic offense has made the Cardinals , to me , not an inspiring team to watch right now............I still don't feel 100 % yet from my stomach bug and watching this team stumble along is just about as painful as the bug is.................................JMHO........... [/QUOTE]
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