St Louis Cardinals 2026

#526      
BillyBob1
Great pitching tonight! Would have been nice to score an extra run or two to make it more relaxing!

Walker with a couple ropes!
 
#527      
pruman91
{ 22-15 }

THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........

Cardinals take the series opener from the Padres winning 2-1 in a very exciting game............

Liberatore with a Quality Start going 6 IP , 3 H , 1 ER , 6 K's for the win and is now 2-1.........
Soriano 1 IP , 1 H ,1 K....
Romero 1 IP , 1 K.........
O'Brien 1 IP , 1 K ...........Gets his 11th save..............he's filthy , nasty and pretty dam good.....he really really is.........

Burleson 1-3 , 1 R , 1 RBI , 1 HR......
Walker 2-4 , 2 doubles , 1 R ............
Winn 1-4 , 1 triple , 1 RBI......

Great way to start the road trip and I'm enjoying watching this team play such exciting baseball
and now are 7 games over .500 ...........I really really am .....................

LET'S GO CARDINALS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
#528      
Brosky
Se Il Illini said:
Nate Colbert. SanDiego Padres. I remembered the team, but Colbert's name escaped my memory momentarily. This record is hard to replicate obviously . However, since there are far fewer Sunday doubleheaders than there were in the 50's, 60's and 70's, the record may never be touched again.
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You are right. Doubleheaders are a thing of the past. Follow the $$$. They only happen in case of a postponed game which gets rescheduled. And even that is extremely rare. I think Nate and Stan can lock up the trophy case.
 
#529      
Brosky
Am I correct in thinking Church and Weatherholt are both rookie status? I like what I see in both.
 
#530      
Brosky
pruman91 said:
{ 22-15 }

THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........

Cardinals take the series opener from the Padres winning 2-1 in a very exciting game............

Liberatore with a Quality Start going 6 IP , 3 H , 1 ER , 6 K's for the win and is now 2-1.........
Soriano 1 IP , 1 H ,1 K....
Romero 1 IP , 1 K.........
O'Brien 1 IP , 1 K ...........Gets his 11th save..............he's filthy , nasty and pretty dam good.....he really really is.........

Burleson 1-3 , 1 R , 1 RBI , 1 HR......
Walker 2-4 , 2 doubles , 1 R ............
Winn 1-4 , 1 triple , 1 RBI......

Great way to start the road trip and I'm enjoying watching this team play such exciting baseball
and now are 7 games over .500 ...........I really really am .....................

LET'S GO CARDINALS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I agree with all of this. You break it down well. O'Brien is still a mystery man to me, but so far so good. Gorman is looking good at 3rd base, and I keep hoping he'll unlock that enormous power at the plate.
 
#532      
Se Il Illini
Brosky said:
You are right. Doubleheaders are a thing of the past. Follow the $$$. They only happen in case of a postponed game which gets rescheduled. And even that is extremely rare. I think Nate and Stan can lock up the trophy case.
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This is another piece of historical information I ran ascross. Nate Colbert was supposedly in old Sportsmen Park the day that Stan Musial hit his 5 home runs.
 
#533      
MikeTisdale
ptgrd23 said:
Team is exciting.

Need to upgrade Victor Scott in the outfield. Thank goodness nobody is talking about moving JJ to the outfield. They ruined Kolten Wang and Tommy Edman this way.

Bring Baez up. He is hitting .250 with 7 HR at Memphis. Scott is below the Mendoza line.

Maybe Nootbar will recover although I would trade him if he plays well.

We miss Brendon Donavan but it was the right thing to do.
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Nootbaar is the obvious upgrade - it was always going to be whoever wasn't playing well between Church or Scott to be jettisoned by Nootbaar. It should maybe be Saggese instead but he's the only plausible backup SS they have (Fermin can maybe stand there, JJ could stand there if they shuffled some other guys around).

They have to give Nootbaar the run this year - no reason not too and he has the highest ceiling of those 3 for sure. If they can get some value for him then sure trade him at the deadline, but he seems more like an off season trade guy.

There's 0% change JJ moves to the OF. Edman was a plus defender in the OF, and even still, there was never a season with the Cardinals where he played more OF innings than IF innings. So they didn't really "move" him to the OF. Kolton Wong only played the OF for the Cardinals for 106 innings in 2016 (followed by 4 more seasons of exclusively playing 2B). Those 106 innings were purely a Matheny fever dream, nothing like that would happen again.
 
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#534      
pruman91
Nootbaar is still needing to prove he is an everyday player......he played more games last year than any year in his MLB career and he was very underwhelming at best.....he has talent , no doubt , but I would rate Church above him now.....Nootbaar needs to show he's physically healthy enough to play at least 5 days a week and actually put up good enough production to even warrant that much playing time....my memories of him last year was undoing his leg protection at home plate thinking he walked but actually struck out......the ABS system might benefit him more than anyone else in the Cardinals organization.....it really really might,,,

when Nootbaar is activated send down VS II and keep playing Church in CF and slide Nootbaar into LF gradually at first....JMHO.....
 
#535      
BillyBob1
Gotta love the Little League grand slam.. JJ should have 2 rbi on that hit. They should change that. If that were Tatis or Machado, it would have been 2 rbi.
 
#537      
pruman91
J J Wetherholt with a bases loaded single that Tatis misplayed in right field and J J never stopped running till he crossed HP.......Put the Cardinals up 4-0 , now 5-0 as Gorman just singled in a run.....Winn with a SF now 6-0........going to bottom of the 5th.....

McGreevy on the mound for the Cards.............................he now has 7 K's only giving up 1 hit...........
 
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#540      
pruman91
{ 23-15 }

THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........

Cardinals pitcher's McGreevy , Graceffo and Stanek combine for a 1 hit shutout beating the Padres 6-0 and have won the first two games of this 4 game road series.............

McGreevy with career high 9 K's.............
Herrera with career high 4 hits...............
J J with a bases loaded single that turned into all 4 runs scoring............

LET'S GO CARDINALS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..............
 
#541      
Brosky
pruman91 said:
{ 23-15 }

THAT'S A WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........

Cardinals pitcher's McGreevy , Graceffo and Stanek combine for a 1 hit shutout beating the Padres 6-0 and have won the first two games of this 4 game road series.............

McGreevy with career high 9 K's.............
Herrera with career high 4 hits...............
J J with a bases loaded single that turned into all 4 runs scoring............

LET'S GO CARDINALS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..............
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Yeah, that was pretty cool. And make no mistake, the Padres have proven major league talent in that lineup.
 
#542      
Brosky
Se Il Illini said:
This is another piece of historical information I ran ascross. Nate Colbert was supposedly in old Sportsmen Park the day that Stan Musial hit his 5 home runs.
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This is how I remember it: Gussie Busch was the new owner of the Cards as of '53. It was also the first season of the Baltimore Orioles ( prior to that the St. Louis Browns.) Bill Veeck made that decision when Busch with mucho $$$ bought the Cards. So I think Sportsman's Park became Busch Stadium at the start of that year. It was a very difficult park to hit home runs; In deep left center and right center, I think there were fences at about 420 feet. The right field line was just 310 feet, but a screen out there rose to some 40 or 50 feet. Veeck, by the way, wrote a funny book named "Veeck as in Wreck."
 
#543      
pruman91
J J was later given credit for a second RBI on that little league grand slam...........it was the correct call by the official scorer.......

it really really was...........

In three at-bats so far this season with the bases loaded, Wetherholt has two hits and he’s created eight runs even if he’s only credited with five
 
#544      
whatahack
Brosky said:
This is how I remember it: Gussie Busch was the new owner of the Cards as of '53. It was also the first season of the Baltimore Orioles ( prior to that the St. Louis Browns.) Bill Veeck made that decision when Busch with mucho $$$ bought the Cards. So I think Sportsman's Park became Busch Stadium at the start of that year. It was a very difficult park to hit home runs; In deep left center and right center, I think there were fences at about 420 feet. The right field line was just 310 feet, but a screen out there rose to some 40 or 50 feet. Veeck, by the way, wrote a funny book named "Veeck as in Wreck."
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Gussie wanted to name it Budweiser stadium but MLB said no. There was no Busch beer at the time, so Busch stadium was okay. The next year he introduced Busch beer....
 
#546      
Brosky
I predict a big game this afternoon for Gorman. BTW, his defense at 3rd is better than I thought it would be.
 
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