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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1781439" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/break-what-break-cardinals-nolan-gorman-lars-nootbaar-hit-the-cage-for-midseason-fixes/article_a2f0ef63-fb74-5d52-9314-99b8f783d236.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p>WASHINGTON — The first day of Nolan Gorman’s All-Star break began at an airport before sunrise, included four flights, two stops at the Dallas airport, and several dozen swings in a Baton Rouge, La., batting cage. It ended in Phoenix with a keener feel at the plate and a new bat model on the lathe.</p><p>By the time Gorman’s first flight took off, his teammate Lars Nootbaar had just finished taking at least 150 swings at a cage south of Los Angeles.</p><p>With four days between games, he was going to put the fix in break.</p><p>“When I didn’t start the season the way I wanted to,” Nootbaar said, “the only way around it is to work through it.”</p><p></p><p>The Cardinals’ young left-handed hitters went in different directions during their midseason break, but they sought to reach the same destination: greater production. And they took plenty of swings to get there. Manager Oliver Marmol took note of the early returns while the team was in Toronto, made it part of his lineup for the team’s first game in Washington, and six innings later saw affirmation of all their work.</p><p>Gorman and Nootbaar hit back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning to turn a tight game into a textbook win, 6-2, against the Nationals at their park.</p><p>Gorman’s two-run shot and Nootbaar’s blue dart after Washington flubbed a popup backed starter Miles Mikolas. Like Adam Wainwright before him, Mikolas (8-8) rebounded from a “clunker” in Cincinnati with the Cardinals’ second consecutive quality start and, not coincidentally, their second consecutive win by a starter. For Gorman, a rookie, the home run was his second in as many games, his second since trying out a tailor-made bat that is form-fitted to his body movements and swing. And he doesn’t even have that bat yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1781439, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/birdland/break-what-break-cardinals-nolan-gorman-lars-nootbaar-hit-the-cage-for-midseason-fixes/article_a2f0ef63-fb74-5d52-9314-99b8f783d236.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] WASHINGTON — The first day of Nolan Gorman’s All-Star break began at an airport before sunrise, included four flights, two stops at the Dallas airport, and several dozen swings in a Baton Rouge, La., batting cage. It ended in Phoenix with a keener feel at the plate and a new bat model on the lathe. By the time Gorman’s first flight took off, his teammate Lars Nootbaar had just finished taking at least 150 swings at a cage south of Los Angeles. With four days between games, he was going to put the fix in break. “When I didn’t start the season the way I wanted to,” Nootbaar said, “the only way around it is to work through it.” The Cardinals’ young left-handed hitters went in different directions during their midseason break, but they sought to reach the same destination: greater production. And they took plenty of swings to get there. Manager Oliver Marmol took note of the early returns while the team was in Toronto, made it part of his lineup for the team’s first game in Washington, and six innings later saw affirmation of all their work. Gorman and Nootbaar hit back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning to turn a tight game into a textbook win, 6-2, against the Nationals at their park. Gorman’s two-run shot and Nootbaar’s blue dart after Washington flubbed a popup backed starter Miles Mikolas. Like Adam Wainwright before him, Mikolas (8-8) rebounded from a “clunker” in Cincinnati with the Cardinals’ second consecutive quality start and, not coincidentally, their second consecutive win by a starter. For Gorman, a rookie, the home run was his second in as many games, his second since trying out a tailor-made bat that is form-fitted to his body movements and swing. And he doesn’t even have that bat yet. [/QUOTE]
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