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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1796497" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-manager-brings-3-stars-off-field-together-wainwright-was-ready-to-leave/article_88f28460-628b-5d84-a86c-51c4a55ef1d7.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel" target="_blank">Rick Hummel</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>When Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol came to the mound with two outs in the fifth inning Sunday and the Cardinals down 6-5, Adam Wainwright knew he was done. He didn’t know that his longtime catcher and first baseman were going to walk to the dugout with him.</p><p>“That was a surprise,” Wainwright said. “I thought that was cool.”</p><p>But he added, “I was done. I needed to be done.”</p><p>Wainwright, who hasn’t announced any retirement plans as have Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols, allowed six hits and four runs in 4⅔ innings of the Cardinals’ 7-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Some were bloops. But a leadoff walk bedeviled him in the second, as did a Ben Gamel three-run homer off a bad sinker.</p><p></p><p>The plan had been for Wainwright, who has one win in exactly a month, to throw 50 or so pitches, “get on track and get out of there,” he said.</p><p>But he ended up throwing 86 pitches, 53 for strikes.</p><p>“I was proud to walk off the field with those guys even though I was pouting a little bit,” he said. “It still was a good moment for me to say I was teammates with two of the greatest ever. That was a cool time for Albert and Yadi and our whole team to see how St. Louis celebrates some of the greatest players, not just Cardinals, but players ever.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1796497, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-manager-brings-3-stars-off-field-together-wainwright-was-ready-to-leave/article_88f28460-628b-5d84-a86c-51c4a55ef1d7.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/rhummel']Rick Hummel[/URL] When Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol came to the mound with two outs in the fifth inning Sunday and the Cardinals down 6-5, Adam Wainwright knew he was done. He didn’t know that his longtime catcher and first baseman were going to walk to the dugout with him. “That was a surprise,” Wainwright said. “I thought that was cool.” But he added, “I was done. I needed to be done.” Wainwright, who hasn’t announced any retirement plans as have Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols, allowed six hits and four runs in 4⅔ innings of the Cardinals’ 7-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Some were bloops. But a leadoff walk bedeviled him in the second, as did a Ben Gamel three-run homer off a bad sinker. The plan had been for Wainwright, who has one win in exactly a month, to throw 50 or so pitches, “get on track and get out of there,” he said. But he ended up throwing 86 pitches, 53 for strikes. “I was proud to walk off the field with those guys even though I was pouting a little bit,” he said. “It still was a good moment for me to say I was teammates with two of the greatest ever. That was a cool time for Albert and Yadi and our whole team to see how St. Louis celebrates some of the greatest players, not just Cardinals, but players ever.” [/QUOTE]
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