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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1776098" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/with-flaherty-out-early-again-cardinals-thin-bullpen-not-equal-to-task-as-cubs-win/article_7e6df83d-b4c8-5ca9-a880-375f7ecd2727.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel" target="_blank">Rick Hummel</a></p><p>Once Jack Flaherty, who had looked out of synch for the most part in his first two starts that both were abbreviated, had to come out of his third one after two innings Sunday because of either right shoulder tightness or a “dead” arm, as he told the Cardinals’ staff, the game landed in the hands of an erratic group of middle relievers and Memphis call-ups.</p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/dead-arm-abbreviates-flahertys-start-prolongs-cardinals-search-to-enliven-rotation/article_4bf76199-8f46-5501-aaa8-5eaa18010a3c.html" target="_blank">Flaherty was gone after 49 pitches,</a> a few of them unnecessary because of a throwing error he made in the second inning while trying to catch a runner off second base. (Manager Oliver Marmol thought Flaherty was athletic enough to make that play rather than taking the out at first.)</p><p></p><p>With co-closers Giovanny Gallegos and Ryan Helsley having been employed for 32 and 36 pitches, respectively, by Marmol on Saturday, neither was available on Sunday, and left-hander Genesis Cabrera is on the injured list but not injured.</p><p>“It’s not ideal,” Marmol said. “Getting two (innings) out of your starter wasn’t ideal, but we tried to patch it together as best as possible.”</p><p>It shouldn’t really have mattered once Brendan Donovan, Paul Goldschmidt and Juan Yepez all homered off the Cubs’ Alec Mills in the third inning. The Cardinals hadn’t hit three homers in an inning since July 21 of last year in Chicago. The score at this point Sunday was 5-0.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1776098, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/with-flaherty-out-early-again-cardinals-thin-bullpen-not-equal-to-task-as-cubs-win/article_7e6df83d-b4c8-5ca9-a880-375f7ecd2727.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel']Rick Hummel[/URL] Once Jack Flaherty, who had looked out of synch for the most part in his first two starts that both were abbreviated, had to come out of his third one after two innings Sunday because of either right shoulder tightness or a “dead” arm, as he told the Cardinals’ staff, the game landed in the hands of an erratic group of middle relievers and Memphis call-ups. [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/dead-arm-abbreviates-flahertys-start-prolongs-cardinals-search-to-enliven-rotation/article_4bf76199-8f46-5501-aaa8-5eaa18010a3c.html']Flaherty was gone after 49 pitches,[/URL] a few of them unnecessary because of a throwing error he made in the second inning while trying to catch a runner off second base. (Manager Oliver Marmol thought Flaherty was athletic enough to make that play rather than taking the out at first.) With co-closers Giovanny Gallegos and Ryan Helsley having been employed for 32 and 36 pitches, respectively, by Marmol on Saturday, neither was available on Sunday, and left-hander Genesis Cabrera is on the injured list but not injured. “It’s not ideal,” Marmol said. “Getting two (innings) out of your starter wasn’t ideal, but we tried to patch it together as best as possible.” It shouldn’t really have mattered once Brendan Donovan, Paul Goldschmidt and Juan Yepez all homered off the Cubs’ Alec Mills in the third inning. The Cardinals hadn’t hit three homers in an inning since July 21 of last year in Chicago. The score at this point Sunday was 5-0. [/QUOTE]
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