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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1797422" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/now-the-fun-begins-cardinals-tune-up-match-up-get-jordan-hicks-revved-up-in/article_3d599543-70ad-5e14-9e53-776d6f9fa7a1.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p></p><p>PITTSBURGH — The meaning found in a single inning toward the end of a game that was meaningless to the standings was more than professional for Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks and was far more than simply about production.</p><p>This he felt personally, deeply.</p><p>Hicks came off the injured list Wednesday afternoon, threw 15 pitches in a scoreless inning, touched 100 mph with eight of them and did something in the Cardinals’ regular-season finale he had not done since 2018: finish a season on the active roster. After four years of injuries and surgeries and rehab and concerns, Hicks was healthy and available at the end of the season and ready, thanks in part to that single inning, for a first this weekend — his first postseason.</p><p></p><p>“Getting out there, finishing healthy, finishing strong,” Hicks said Wednesday at PNC Park. “Even though it would have been in the playoffs, I still wanted to get out there for that Game 162 and finish on the active roster. That was very important to me. Getting tuned up for the playoffs, that’s the goal. That’s the benefit I got out of it.”</p><p>For the third time in three days at Pittsburgh’s riverside ballpark, the Cardinals took a lead, lost it and this time never gained it back. A three-run gap vanished under the wake of the Pirates’ rally against rookie Matthew Liberatore and carried Pittsburgh to a 5-3 victory. The Cardinals finished their 131st season in the National League with a 93-69 record, their first losing record on the road since 2017 at 40-41 and a division title that carries them into the postseason as the NL’s No. 3 seed. They’ll host Philadelphia, the sixth seed, for a best-of-three wild-card series that begins Friday afternoon at Busch Stadium.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1797422, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/now-the-fun-begins-cardinals-tune-up-match-up-get-jordan-hicks-revved-up-in/article_3d599543-70ad-5e14-9e53-776d6f9fa7a1.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] PITTSBURGH — The meaning found in a single inning toward the end of a game that was meaningless to the standings was more than professional for Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks and was far more than simply about production. This he felt personally, deeply. Hicks came off the injured list Wednesday afternoon, threw 15 pitches in a scoreless inning, touched 100 mph with eight of them and did something in the Cardinals’ regular-season finale he had not done since 2018: finish a season on the active roster. After four years of injuries and surgeries and rehab and concerns, Hicks was healthy and available at the end of the season and ready, thanks in part to that single inning, for a first this weekend — his first postseason. “Getting out there, finishing healthy, finishing strong,” Hicks said Wednesday at PNC Park. “Even though it would have been in the playoffs, I still wanted to get out there for that Game 162 and finish on the active roster. That was very important to me. Getting tuned up for the playoffs, that’s the goal. That’s the benefit I got out of it.” For the third time in three days at Pittsburgh’s riverside ballpark, the Cardinals took a lead, lost it and this time never gained it back. A three-run gap vanished under the wake of the Pirates’ rally against rookie Matthew Liberatore and carried Pittsburgh to a 5-3 victory. The Cardinals finished their 131st season in the National League with a 93-69 record, their first losing record on the road since 2017 at 40-41 and a division title that carries them into the postseason as the NL’s No. 3 seed. They’ll host Philadelphia, the sixth seed, for a best-of-three wild-card series that begins Friday afternoon at Busch Stadium. [/QUOTE]
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