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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1780474" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinal-beat/cardinals-pitcher-steven-matz-has-good-news-bad-news-win-over-cincinnati/article_48ac1142-6635-59a3-b620-3bdcd2b30899.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel" target="_blank">Rick Hummel</a></p><p>CINCINNATI — Tony La Russa used to say that “you never have a perfect game” as a manager. By that, the Hall of Famer meant that in any victory, there is a downside.</p><p>So it was for left-hander Steven Matz, who scored his first win Saturday night for the Cardinals since May 2 in his first game for the club since May 22 when he suffered a shoulder impingement. Reaching 96.5 miles an hour with his sinker, Matz struck out seven, including his final five outs, and gave up just three hits and one walk in working 5 1/3 innings, 90 pitches’ worth, of the Cardinals’ 6-3 triumph over Cincinnati.</p><p>But the flip side to this is that Matz is hurt again. Trying to pick up Joey Votto’s tapper down the first-base line in the sixth, Matz fumbled the ball, lost his balance as he desperately tried to recapture it and, in the process, suffered a left knee strain.</p><p></p><p>He will undergo an MRI here Sunday morning and while manager Oliver Marmol is ever hopeful Matz won’t be sidelined for a second long period of time, a strain means something is torn.</p><p>Marmol and pitching coach Mike Maddux had crafted a five-man rotation which was to include Matz and also right-hander Dakota Hudson (stiff neck), who is making a rehab start on Sunday at Memphis and is targeted to pitch next weekend in Washington. That rotation already has taken on a different look.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1780474, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinal-beat/cardinals-pitcher-steven-matz-has-good-news-bad-news-win-over-cincinnati/article_48ac1142-6635-59a3-b620-3bdcd2b30899.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel']Rick Hummel[/URL] CINCINNATI — Tony La Russa used to say that “you never have a perfect game” as a manager. By that, the Hall of Famer meant that in any victory, there is a downside. So it was for left-hander Steven Matz, who scored his first win Saturday night for the Cardinals since May 2 in his first game for the club since May 22 when he suffered a shoulder impingement. Reaching 96.5 miles an hour with his sinker, Matz struck out seven, including his final five outs, and gave up just three hits and one walk in working 5 1/3 innings, 90 pitches’ worth, of the Cardinals’ 6-3 triumph over Cincinnati. But the flip side to this is that Matz is hurt again. Trying to pick up Joey Votto’s tapper down the first-base line in the sixth, Matz fumbled the ball, lost his balance as he desperately tried to recapture it and, in the process, suffered a left knee strain. He will undergo an MRI here Sunday morning and while manager Oliver Marmol is ever hopeful Matz won’t be sidelined for a second long period of time, a strain means something is torn. Marmol and pitching coach Mike Maddux had crafted a five-man rotation which was to include Matz and also right-hander Dakota Hudson (stiff neck), who is making a rehab start on Sunday at Memphis and is targeted to pitch next weekend in Washington. That rotation already has taken on a different look. [/QUOTE]
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