StL 2024 Game #85 thread – Sunday, June 30 vs. Reds

Greene can be absolute money on the hill, but today we’ll get to him. This is one of those games where you bet the ranch and all of it’s livestock on St. Louis winning the game. At the risk of sounding cocky, I simply don’t miscall these sort of games. So empty your checking, savings and any and all retirement accounts, along with any real estate holdings…..heck, even borrow as much as you can get your hands on …..and plop it all down on the Cardinals winning today’s game. This series had “SPLIT” written all over it as long as two weeks ago…..and today it comes to fruition.

The delicious smell of a lovely pork tenderloin is wafting across the hall from the oven into my library as it awaits the din-din accompaniment of baked potatoes, ratatouille and freshly baked biscuits. The grandchildren, however, seem to have their minds more focused on pappy’s famous rice pudding.
They recently drove three hours to Houston to watch our birds play the Astros, fortunately the only win out of the three games. The other good news is they also brought me a clean new Cardinals cap to replace the old sweat-stained model I wear to impress the other old geezers at the local cafe over morning coffee.
Rah Cardinals! Lets even things up with these Redlegs!

Boy Rat and Cardinal in France sure know how to rustle up some quality din-dins. I could picture them both in the kitchen together side-by-side, with large floppy chef caps on……Rat with a humongous 7×50 Cuban El Presidente deluxe cigar protruding from his mouth, while Cardinal in France diligently tends to the culinary proceedings. Talk about a meal fit for a king. I’m having tuna fish (celery and onion mingled in) sandwiches, 2 hard boiled eggs, large dill pickle and Ruffles potato chips dipped into sour cream.

Arenado is soooo easy to get out.

And Gorman swings at one in the dirt. Those 2 really need to make some adjustments and work on their weaknesses.

Siani doesn’t have anything to show for his at bat here in the 2nd, but it’s becoming gleefully obvious that the man can hit. No score heading to the 3rd.

Yelich sends one sailing into the centerfield rafters with a mate on board in the bottom of the 4th, propelling the Brewers to a 2-1 advantage vs Kyle Hendricks and his cubbies.

Edmonds get annoying hearing the same thing over and over. The OF defense plays much deeper today. Sure you get some bloop singles, but how many hits are taken away because of it? A lot from what I can tell with the eye and the data shows. It takes away a lot of xBHs at that. Siani’s oppo fly ball was easily a double if the defenders don’t play deep, but instead it was an out.

Mikey likey…….and Pedro Pages ( properly pronounced “Pa-hez” ) certainly likies what Mr. Greene is offering up today as he’s 2-2 vs the Cincinnati righthander.

3 singles and we have a run. Pages is always entertaining to watch run the bases. He reminds me of Yadi and Bengie with the slow foot speed

Hopefully JJ. This will be Greene’s last inning of labor.