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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1797911" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-the-cardinals-need-cold-paul-goldschmidt-to-heat-up-immediately/article_e8e0c722-4496-5c5c-b625-5880318a223c.html#tracking-source=in-article[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Benjamin%20Hochman" target="_blank">Benjamin Hochman</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, if there was ever a game in which a Most Valuable Player needed to demonstrate his designation, it’s Saturday’s game for Paul Edward Goldschmidt.</p><p>In the Game 1 loss Friday to Philadelphia, Goldschmidt went 0 for 3 (and was hit by a pitch). In a vacuum, it’s not the end of the world, but consider it’s been a frighteningly frigid stretch here for the Cardinals’ first baseman. He hit two homers on August 25 at Wrigley Field — and has hit two homers since. He finished with a league-best OPS of .981 ... and that includes his .689 OPS since August 25.</p><p>On Friday afternoon, after 5 1/2 innings, that vacuum was airtight. The game was scoreless, though the Cards got a runner to third with two outs. The MVP was up. And he weakly grounded out.</p><p></p><p>“I had a couple pitches to hit — fouled two off and had that last one and hit a groundball,” Goldschmidt said after the 6-3 loss. “Obviously just trying to get on base there any way I can — and I wasn’t able to do that.”</p><p>Over the course of a season, even the best players will have a bad game or even a bad three-game series. So, if it’s this particular three-game series — that being the playoffs — does it change the expectations? Fairly or unfairly, the answer is yes. These are the games in which the big names are expected to ascend.</p><p>“'Goldy' is one to tell you exactly how he's feeling — he's very literal and he's very honest,” Cardinals manager <a href="https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/hummel-where-does-oliver-marmol-fit-into-the-manager-of-the-year-conversation/article_58bd020a-a695-5445-b484-37aa9dcae204.html" target="_blank">Oliver Marmol</a> said on the morning of Game 1. “So when he says ‘I'm not feeling good,’ he means that. Right now, he's saying, ‘I feel really good.’ So, I'm looking forward to this next three days.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1797911, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-the-cardinals-need-cold-paul-goldschmidt-to-heat-up-immediately/article_e8e0c722-4496-5c5c-b625-5880318a223c.html#tracking-source=in-article[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Benjamin%20Hochman']Benjamin Hochman[/URL] Well, if there was ever a game in which a Most Valuable Player needed to demonstrate his designation, it’s Saturday’s game for Paul Edward Goldschmidt. In the Game 1 loss Friday to Philadelphia, Goldschmidt went 0 for 3 (and was hit by a pitch). In a vacuum, it’s not the end of the world, but consider it’s been a frighteningly frigid stretch here for the Cardinals’ first baseman. He hit two homers on August 25 at Wrigley Field — and has hit two homers since. He finished with a league-best OPS of .981 ... and that includes his .689 OPS since August 25. On Friday afternoon, after 5 1/2 innings, that vacuum was airtight. The game was scoreless, though the Cards got a runner to third with two outs. The MVP was up. And he weakly grounded out. “I had a couple pitches to hit — fouled two off and had that last one and hit a groundball,” Goldschmidt said after the 6-3 loss. “Obviously just trying to get on base there any way I can — and I wasn’t able to do that.” Over the course of a season, even the best players will have a bad game or even a bad three-game series. So, if it’s this particular three-game series — that being the playoffs — does it change the expectations? Fairly or unfairly, the answer is yes. These are the games in which the big names are expected to ascend. “'Goldy' is one to tell you exactly how he's feeling — he's very literal and he's very honest,” Cardinals manager [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/hummel-where-does-oliver-marmol-fit-into-the-manager-of-the-year-conversation/article_58bd020a-a695-5445-b484-37aa9dcae204.html']Oliver Marmol[/URL] said on the morning of Game 1. “So when he says ‘I'm not feeling good,’ he means that. Right now, he's saying, ‘I feel really good.’ So, I'm looking forward to this next three days.” [/QUOTE]
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